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Grill power: How to grill safely through the summer 06/28/2024 01:48pm • Lots of us will be grilling this weekend, maybe for the first time this summer. Loudoun County, Virginia's fire chief is offering some safety tips to keep the focus on the tasty food — and prevent a fire or trip to the emergency room. "Above all, keep that grill at least 15 feet away from anyth Montgomery County school system violated its own policy on crisis management contracts, report finds 06/27/2024 03:44pm • Montgomery County Public Schools officials violated the rules in place on emergency spending for contracts when they were trying to deal with the fallout from allegations of sexual harassment and bullying involving then-principal Joel Beidleman last year, a new report found. The latest report fro 14-foot sinkhole causes traffic delays in Arlington 06/27/2024 10:11am • A 14-foot-deep sinkhole is prompting emergency repairs along Wilson Boulevard in Arlington, Virginia, Thursday morning — and work may not be completed until Sunday. In a post on X, Arlington's Department of Environmental Services said the work is being done between North Randolph Street and Nor Loudoun Co. school board passes tighter student cellphone policy, set to start this fall 06/26/2024 10:09am • When public school students return to classes in Loudoun County, Virginia, this fall a new, tighter cellphone policy will be in place, which could also affect how parents communicate with their children during the school day. The Loudoun County School Board approved a new policy Tuesday that deta Johns Hopkins surgeon says US surgeon general's declaration that gun violence is a public health crisis is 'historic' 06/25/2024 08:05pm • The notion of treating gun violence as a public health issue is not new, but it's got a much broader platform with the declaration by U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy that the country is experiencing a public health crisis as a result. Dr. Joseph Sakran is the executive vice chair of surgery From wardrobe to wardrobe: DC clothing swap makes a fashion statement 06/25/2024 09:49am • Summer is here, and you may have gone through your closet while finishing up your spring cleaning. So now what? Do you want to leave that bag of clothes catching dust in your trunk, promising you'll get around to donating it "one of these days," or would you rather take it to an event where you c Arlington school officials say this tool is helping monitor concerning student behavior 06/24/2024 05:03pm • A digital threat assessment form is helping Arlington, Virginia, school leaders better monitor concerning student behavior, Superintendent Francisco Durán said at a school board meeting Thursday. As part of his year-end presentation to the school board, Durán detailed how the electronic threat Discarded bottle at Dulles helped lead to suspect in Montgomery Co. cold-case killing, documents say 06/24/2024 04:24pm • Forensic genetic genealogy testing, a 20-year-old tip buried in police files and a discarded water bottle at Dulles International Airport culminated in a break in the cold-case killing of a Montgomery County, Maryland, woman, police say. Eugene Gligor, 44, of D.C., made his first appearance Monda Two years after Dobbs: How Maryland fits in the shifting landscape of abortion access 06/24/2024 11:29am • Two years after the U.S. Supreme Court upended 50 years of abortion law with its Dobbs decision, Maryland has reaffirmed its position as an abortion-friendly state while other states have restricted or banned the procedure outright. Providers in Maryland say they have seen an increase in patients Sickle cell gene therapy offers ‘normal life’ for 12-year-old DC boy 06/24/2024 04:34am • 12-year-old Kendric Cromer (center), with father Keith (left) and mother Deborah (right). He will receive a new life-changing gene therapy this fall. He's the first in the nation to get the treatment that could cure his sickle cell disease. (Courtesy The Cromers) The wait is almost over for Police investigate death of 80-year-old inmate in Maryland as homicide 06/23/2024 09:59am • Police in Maryland have launched a homicide investigation into the death of an 80-year-old inmate in an Allegany County prison. Ralph Ruark was pronounced dead around 3:30 p.m. on Saturday by emergency medical personnel at the Western Correctional Institution in Cumberland where he was an inmate, 'Extreme heat poses immediate risks': Md. commission aims to stop utility terminations until fall 06/22/2024 12:28pm • Earlier this week, the Maryland Office of People's Counsel (OPC) filed a petition requesting an order to stop utility companies from turning off residential building's utilities until the end of summer, due to the extreme heat. Maryland's commission that regulates public utilities responded on Fr DC road closures, parking restrictions ahead of National Capital Barbecue Battle 06/22/2024 04:20am • Get ready to steer clear of smoke signals and gridlock this weekend! From Friday evening through early Monday morning, the annual National Capital Barbecue Battle will be shutting down streets and gobbling up parking spots from Constitution to Independence avenues. D.C. Police has announced 'Extremely dangerous heat' descends on DC region 06/21/2024 06:52pm • Listen live to WTOP for traffic and weather updates on the 8s. The heat is on for yet another day in the D.C. region, with temperatures peaking in the high 90s in some areas Friday afternoon, but the "feels like" temperature has exceeded 100 degrees. The rest of the weekend doesn’t look to b 2 teens dead after fiery 3-car crash on I-270 in Montgomery County 06/21/2024 03:58pm • Two teens were killed in a fiery, three-car crash on Interstate 270 in Montgomery County, Maryland, early Friday morning and police are now searching for the driver of a BMW who they said fled the scene. The two teens have been identified as 17-year-old Luis Isaac Bran, of Gaithersburg, Maryl