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State, nationwide hunger-relief nonprofit says SNAP benefits equate to about $6 a day for person 08/22/2023 05:45pm • This content was republished with permission from WTOP’s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for Maryland Matters’ free email subscription today. National and Maryland-based hunger relief organizations are grappling with the fact that millions in federal dollars for food assistance p What to know about new COVID variants EG.5, FL.1.5.1 and BA.2.86 now spreading 08/22/2023 07:45am • ▶ Watch Video: Dr. Scott Gottlieb says he's "pretty concerned" about new COVID variant Health authorities say they're closely tracking the spread of three new COVID-19 variants now spreading around the country. Levels of COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths for now remain far below 'We could have done things differently': 911 call center director on the deadly District Dogs flood 08/21/2023 11:25pm • The delay in alerting first responders to the flooding at a pet day care in Northeast D.C. last week was the result of a miscommunication between D.C.'s 911 call center and D.C. Fire and EMS about the situation's severity, according to the call center director at a news conference Monday. Ten do Need to leave kids home alone as the school year gets underway? Here are some tips 08/21/2023 10:10am • As the school year begins for some students in Northern Virginia, some parents may be considering leaving their child home alone before or after school for the first time. In Virginia, there are no specific rules about how old a child should be when they're left alone. But Twana Johnson, Program 'Children are known to spread diseases:' COVID and keeping your family healthy as kids go back to school 08/20/2023 08:24pm • Kids are filing back into classrooms, gymnasiums and cafeterias at public schools across Fairfax and Prince William counties Monday. And with them, students are bringing in and sharing pens, spiral notebooks and — yes, unfortunately — viruses. "I don't have to tell any parent that their kids Gov. Wes Moore: Maryland must reckon with structural challenges facing state economy, budget 08/20/2023 12:15am • Listing concerns about Maryland's future economic outlook, Gov. Wes Moore (D) made it clear to state and county officials Saturday that there may be some hard fiscal decisions coming up in the next state budget, both for them and for himself as governor. "It's going to take the discipline of elec What would Maryland do if there was a natural disaster? 08/19/2023 08:30pm • This content was republished with permission from WTOP’s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for Maryland Matters’ free email subscription today. Even on a pleasant, breezy, partly sunny day in Ocean City, with the waters of Assawoman Bay lapping gently against the pedestrian promenad Md. mother on new RSV vaccine: 'I just wish we had this last year' 08/19/2023 05:30pm • A new RSV shot for infants called Beyfortus, a monoclonal antibody treatment for the respiratory disease, is set to hit the market soon. Doctors have said early trials and subsequent FDA approval show how effective the shot is. And now, a Maryland mother and the doctor who treated her infant daug Md. state police shoot man after they say he attacked a trooper with a knife 08/19/2023 03:05pm • Maryland State Police are investigating a shooting involving state troopers that left a man hospitalized Friday evening in St. Mary's County. Just before 11 p.m. on Friday, Maryland State Police said two troopers responded to a report of a possible suicidal person at a home in the 44000 block of Light pollution is killing the vibe for courting fireflies 08/19/2023 08:00am • ▶ Watch Video: Fireflies put on a summertime light show Fireflies are the romantics of the insect world. In the summer months, they emerge from the ground with love on the brain. They only live for two to three weeks once they've become full adults and in that time they don't even eat. DDOT working on plan to close part of Rhode Island Ave. in response to flash flooding 08/17/2023 10:43pm • In order to help prevent devastating flooding in the area of Northeast D.C., the District Department of Transportation told WTOP that a plan is in the works that would initiate a road closure if powerful storms are coming to the area. DDOT says it is currently working on a standard operating proc Md. attorney general's office releases videos of deadly police shooting of teenager suspected of stabbings 08/17/2023 06:38pm • More details are emerging from a deadly police shooting of a teenager accused of stabbing four people in Montgomery County, Maryland, last month. The Maryland Attorney General's Office on Thursday released body and dashboard camera footage from the fatal shooting of Franklin Castro Ordonez, 19, o Maryland firefighters, doctors and engineers on their way to Hawaii to help 08/16/2023 08:30pm • Maryland's premier urban search and rescue team is bound for Hawaii to join the massive recovery effort from the wildfires on Maui. Maryland Task Force 1 has been tapped by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to assist teams that are working to get the community back on its feet after DC officials offer few answers about emergency response to Monday’s flooding 08/16/2023 03:50pm • Two days after severe flooding prompted multiple rescues of people and led to the deaths of several dogs inside a doggy day care in Northeast D.C., city leaders were ready to offer few answers about what happened during Monday’s storms. Chris Rodriguez, who leads the D.C.'s Department of Homela DC woman grapples with dog's drowning death: 'This could have all been prevented' 08/16/2023 04:44am • For D.C. resident Jocelyn Lobos-Segura, Monday's severe weather in the Rhode Island Avenue area of Northeast took an unimaginably tragic toll. Her one-year-old Labrador-Border Collie, Mona, was one of 10 dogs who died when a pet day care facility flooded. "I didn't know anything was going on unti