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Hayfield football team withdraws from postseason amid alleged violation of league rules 11/26/2024 04:22pm • A Fairfax County high school football team has withdrawn from the postseason amid allegations that it violated Virginia High School League rules. In a statement Monday, Superintendent Michelle Reid said Hayfield Secondary School "announced the difficult decision to withdraw the football team from Why Virginia’s likely Democratic nominee for governor is leaving ‘chaos’ of Congress to focus on the state 11/26/2024 05:00am • After serving three terms in Congress, Democratic U.S. Rep. Abigail Spanberger is on her way out of D.C. and will soon be on the campaign trail in Virginia as she runs for governor in 2025. "It's going to be exciting," Spanberger said in an interview with WTOP. She announced a year ago that sh Cannabis-related ER visits rose ahead of recreational legalization, Md. state dashboard shows 11/25/2024 08:34am • Cannabis-related emergency room visits climbed steadily through July 2023, when recreational use was first legalized in Maryland, but have never reached that peak again, fluctuating up and down in the months since. That was just one of the findings of a new Maryland Health Department interactive 'God bless the judge': Hayfield football families eager to put allegations surrounding program behind them 11/22/2024 02:32am • Hayfield Secondary’s football team defeated Edison in the first round of the playoffs Thursday night, 75-7, less than a week after a judge ruled they could play in the postseason. Under first-year coach Darryl Overton, the Fairfax County school had been accused of improperly recruiting at least 'I think about Sarah every 5 minutes': Widower of woman killed while cycling in Bethesda leads bike ride, road safety rally 11/17/2024 12:40pm • Bikers flooded bike lanes and sidewalks in the D.C. area Sunday morning to to ride and rally for safer roads. Two years ago, 42-year-old Sarah Langenkamp was killed after being hit by a truck while riding her bike in Bethesda, Maryland. To commemorate Sarah, her husband Dan Langenkamp founded th 'It's not cool': Street sweepers remove illegally placed signs in Montgomery Co. 11/12/2024 05:25pm • After every election in Maryland, teams from Montgomery County hit the road for a unique harvest — removing the illegally placed campaign signs along county roadways. Greg Nichols is the code compliance manager at the Montgomery County Department of Permitting Services. He was blunt when asked Formal cellphone policy vote by Prince William Co. School Board expected on Dec. 4 11/12/2024 10:03am • Prince William County Public Schools' cellphone pilot appears to be working well, school officials told the School Board at its Nov. 6 meeting, as the board considers what its formal cellphone policy will be in the new year. The division expanded a cellphone pilot program to all middle and high s About more than tickets: Fairfax Co. police Road Shark campaign gives out nearly 35K violations 11/07/2024 06:10pm • Fairfax County and Virginia State Police gave out nearly 35,000 tickets and warnings to drivers during a five-week campaign aimed at making roads safer. The initiative, called Road Shark, deploys officers to crash-prone roads or areas where higher speeds are either reported or observed. Last y DC-area leaders launch campaign to boost pedestrian safety during winter months 10/29/2024 05:30pm • The Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments is urging drivers to slow down and look out for pedestrians and bicyclists. As part of National Pedestrian Safety Month, the council is launching a new Street Smart safety campaign with the slogan, "Slow Down, Life Ahead." The campaign aims to Leaders push Prince George's Co. schools to do something about cellphones 10/28/2024 01:23pm • An increasing number of school systems around the D.C. region have policies that govern cellphone use inside the classroom — Prince George's County, Maryland, isn't one of them. As it stands, the decision on such policies is left up to local school systems, which is why some leaders in Prince G Va. leaders are calling for a bell-to-bell cellphone ban in schools. What do students think? 10/22/2024 05:39am • During lunch at Unity Reed High School in Manassas, Virginia, senior Alaa Rashed often notices some of her friends calling their parents. Usually, they're coordinating with them or siblings to figure out who needs to be picked up and when. Another friend nearby, who has a job when the school day 20 expressions with historical origins that may surprise you! 10/11/2024 03:52pm • This content is sponsored by Long Fence. Every day, you likely use numerous expressions, idioms, proverbs and slang that don’t have a literal meaning. If you've pondered why you phrase things in a certain way, you might be able to speculate on their origins. However, some English expressions ar Does the punishment fit the crime? Purcellville police seek new distracted driving charge 10/11/2024 07:38am • A major goal of the American judicial system is that the punishment should fit the crime — the police chief of Purcellville, Virginia, wants to make sure that tenet applies to drivers. "The state code does not provide us the ability to charge a driver with failure to pay full-time attention," P Which Virginia roads see the most close-calls between pedestrians and cars 10/02/2024 05:28pm • In Northern Virginia, speeding, distracted driving and failing to yield are leading to close calls between cars and people on foot or on bicycles, according to a new report. The findings are from the Northern Virginia Families for Safe Streets nonprofit organization, and the data comes from hundr Tired of shutdown threats? Try to understand the weird way the US government gets money 09/22/2024 01:00am • (CNN) — The current drama should feel so familiar: â–º A deadline looms for a must-pass, stopgap funding bill to avoid a government shutdown. â–º Former President Donald Trump is encouraging Republicans to embrace a shutdown if they can’t get Democrats to agree to add controversial immigra