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Rockville-based Narcan maker Emergent is cutting hundreds of jobs 05/02/2024 01:40pm • Rockville-based Emergent BioSolutions is eliminating 300 jobs and will not fill 85 current job openings, as part of a broad restructuring that also includes closing manufacturing facilities, including one in the Maryland city. Emergent also reported quarterly revenue of $300 million, almost doubl Dress up with The Dude as 'The Lebowski Experience' returns to DC 04/17/2024 11:53am •   Last year, they banded together to mark 25 years of the Coen Brothers movie "The Big Lebowski" (1998). This Saturday, "The Lebowski Experience" celebrates its own fifth anniversary as the live concert tribute to the film's music returns to Pearl Street Warehouse in D.C., fittingly o Executor of O.J. Simpson's estate changes stance on Goldman family payout 04/16/2024 10:21am • ▶ Watch Video: Former NFL star O.J. Simpson, who was acquitted of double murder, dies at 76 O.J. Simpson's longtime attorney and the executor of his estate has backpedaled on earlier remarks suggesting he would block any claims for settlement money from Ron Goldman's family members, wh What is financial wellness (and why does it matter)? 04/10/2024 04:12pm • This content is provided by WAEPA. Since 1943, WAEPA has remained committed to the health, welfare and financial well-being of Civilian Federal Employees. With more than eight decades of experience, nobody knows Fed life like WAEPA. And WAEPA knows that Fed life doesn’t follow just one path, wh DC day care owner honored for evacuating 16 kids ahead of gas explosion 04/07/2024 12:45pm • A Southeast D.C. day care operator was honored Saturday for helping save the lives of 16 children at the Baby Einstein Child Development Center in January. There were 16 children inside the center on Marion Barry Avenue, in the heart of Anacostia, when the day care center's owner and director Reg Should Marylanders with severe mental health needs get court-ordered treatment? State Senate to decide 04/06/2024 12:58pm • Maryland's Senate is set to vote on a bill that could impose court-ordered mental health treatments for people whose significant mental health needs lead to frequent hospitalizations or interactions with law enforcement. House Bill 576 would create so-called “Assisted Outpatient Treatment” pr Manassas schools present $153 million spending plan to City Council 04/06/2024 11:55am • Manassas city teachers will see another pay raise this summer on top of one they received in January, if the School Board's budget is approved by the City Council. The School Board presented its fiscal 2025 budget to the City Council at an April 3 joint meeting. The $153 million budget, approved Only on WTOP: Maryland Gov. Wes Moore says state is still mourning 1 week after Baltimore bridge collapse 04/02/2024 05:00pm • Tuesday marks one week since tragedy forever changed the landscape in Baltimore and Maryland. In the overnight hours last Tuesday, a huge container ship hit the Key Bridge causing most of it to fall like a deck of cards into the Patapsco River. Six construction workers were killed in the colla Youngkin 'boggled' Caps, Wizards deal 'from the beginning,' Va. Sen. Lucas tells WTOP 03/30/2024 09:00am • Now that the push to move the Washington Capitals and Wizards teams to Virginia's Alexandria area has been nixed — with owner Ted Leonsis calling himself political "collateral damage" in the deal — state Sen. L. Louise Lucas is putting the blame squarely on Gov. Glenn Youngkin's shoulders. Maryland mortgage balances see biggest increase in US, study finds 03/25/2024 12:44pm • Maryland saw its average mortgage balance increase by more than a percent in the last quarter of 2023 as compared to the three months prior, according to a recent study. That 1.23% increase brings Maryland’s average mortgage balance to just over $283,000, according to the study from persona DC attorney general says Capitals and Wizards can't leave DC until 2047. Monumental says they can 03/22/2024 05:05pm • There has been another development in the ongoing saga regarding the possible relocation of the Washington Capitals and Wizards teams' arena from D.C. to Alexandria, Virginia. According to a letter from the D.C. Office of the Attorney General, the teams are contractually obligated to remain in the D Biden administration to forgive student loans for 78,000 public service workers 03/21/2024 06:45am • (WASHINGTON) -- President Joe Biden will announce Thursday that about 78,000 public service workers will have their student loans forgiven by his administration. The workers, which include teachers, nurses, firefighters and others, have “dedicated their careers to serving their communities,” Maryland House gives preliminary approval to tolling, gaming bills as deadline nears 03/17/2024 09:29am • The House of Delegates gave preliminary approval to a bill to transfer $750 million from Maryland’s toll facilities to the state Transportation Trust Fund. The vote was one of two taken Saturday on bills meant to target projected operating and transportation deficits. House Bill 1070 is part Proposed Manassas budget would raise city homeowners' taxes; town hall planned for Monday 03/16/2024 08:23am • Interim Manassas City Manager Douglas Keen has proposed a fiscal 2025 spending plan that would raise the average homeowner's real estate taxes by more than $260. During a Feb. 26 City Council meeting, Keen proposed the real estate tax rate remain at $1.26 per $100 of assessed value. Under this rat Review: Millie Bobby Brown battles a dragon to survive royal hell in Netflix original movie 'Damsel' 03/15/2024 02:23pm • Kate Middleton isn't the only princess in potential trouble that royal watchers are buzzing about. Millie Bobby Brown stars in the new dark fantasy adventure "Damsel," now streaming on Netflix. Set in a colorful fantasy land, the film follows dutiful damsel Elodie Bayford (Brown) who agree