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COVID-19 case rates rise in DC region 05/10/2022 05:20pm • Climbing COVID-19 case numbers are pushing many D.C.-area jurisdictions from low into medium community spread. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention defines low community spread as a seven-day total of fewer than 200 cases per 100,000 residents. A sample of localities' numbers based o Gaithersburg-based Novavax reports first profitable quarter, but its stock sinks 05/10/2022 10:31am • Gaithersburg, Maryland-based Novavax posted its first profitable quarter as a commercial stage company, but its quarterly revenue fell short of expectations, sending its stock down as much as 20% in Tuesday trading. Novavax shipped 31 million doses of its protein-based COVID-19 vaccine last quart How Chinese is Chinatown? The importance, and difficulty, of keeping historical connection 05/10/2022 04:26am • Any new construction or renovation in D.C.'s Chinatown has to contribute to the area's Chinese identity. But the small number of longtime residents and the former residents of the area, many of Chinese descent, may recognize little of the neighborhood where they were born and grew up. Brother What to consider as COVID-19 numbers rise again in Montgomery, Fairfax counties 05/09/2022 08:53pm • Rising COVID-19 case numbers have bumped Montgomery County, Maryland, up into the medium category for community transmission, just like in Fairfax County, Virginia. While hospitalizations throughout the D.C. region remain relatively low, there’s concern for people who are most vulnerable. Criminal justice institute offers suggestions for curbing gun violence in DC 05/09/2022 08:53pm • Gun violence in the nation’s capital continues to be a serious problem: Last year, D.C. surpassed 200 homicides for the first time in 17 years. And this year could be a repeat, with 65 homicides reported as of Monday, compared with 64 this time last year. As the District tries to turn the tide Suspected impaired driver rescued from burning car in Beltsville crash; trooper injured 05/09/2022 04:01pm • Some Maryland state troopers are being credited with saving the life of a suspected impaired driver in Beltsville, Maryland, who the Maryland State Police said caused a fiery crash that injured one of their own. Shortly after 2 a.m. on Monday, a state trooper was assisting with another crash on R Women on the ballot: Emerge Maryland sees jump in candidates this year 05/09/2022 10:18am • This content was republished with permission from WTOP’s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for Maryland Matters’ free email subscription today. As women candidates have made progress nationally and in Maryland over recent election cycles, a training program for Democratic women is se Video shows vehicles linked to Prince George's Co. shooting that injured 2 boys, killed dog 05/06/2022 08:57pm • Police in Prince George's County, Maryland, released a video showing what appears to be a shooting that took place in District Heights in which two boys were shot and a dog was killed. The video shows a dark van and a second dark vehicle stopping on the 6700 block of Alpine Street near a group of What to know about 'rebound' in COVID symptoms after taking Paxlovid 05/06/2022 02:17pm • ▶ Watch Video: Who is eligible to get the COVID-19 antiviral drug Paxlovid? Scientists and federal agencies say they are investigating reports of Americans who say they faced a resurgence of COVID-19 soon after finishing off a course of Paxlovid, Pfizer's antiviral treatment for the di Youngkin rolling back COVID-19 era telework for Va. state employees 05/06/2022 10:38am • Most state employees in Virginia will have to abandon working from their couches and reacclimate to full-time office life by July 5 under a new policy announced Thursday by Gov. Glenn Youngkin. The policy rolls back telework, which became widespread at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. But it d DC task force to tackle health care worker shortage in the city 05/05/2022 04:44pm • D.C. officials this week announced a task force to come up with short- and long-term solutions to a health care worker shortage in the nation’s capital. Mayor Muriel Bowser announced the creation of the task force on Monday at Forest Hills of DC, an assisted living facility in Northwest. The COVID-19 cases up as level of community spread remains 'low' in Montgomery County 05/05/2022 03:53am • Montgomery County, Maryland, is seeing the number of COVID-19 cases increase, but the level of community spread remains low. According to the county's COVID-19 surveillance dashboard, there have been 193 cases per 100,000 in the past seven days. "There's a clear favoring in this virus to becom Police increase reward for arrest of suspected shooter at Benton Middle flag football games 05/05/2022 12:44am • This article was written by WTOP’s news partner InsideNoVa.com and republished with permission. Sign up for InsideNoVa.com’s free email subscription today. Police have announced a new $5,000 reward in the search for the suspected gunman in Sunday's double shooting during youth league football g Former Germantown FEMA employee prepped false tax returns 05/04/2022 09:38am • A former Federal Emergency Management Agency employee in Germantown, Maryland, pleaded guilty Monday to preparing false tax returns. Shanta Johnson, 44, filed fake returns from January 2013 through at least April 2016, while on the job at the Federal Emergency Management Agency, according to a Ju In Calif., Hogan re-wraps himself in Reagan’s cloak as Trump notches big win in Ohio 05/04/2022 04:54am • This content was republished with permission from WTOP’s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for Maryland Matters’ free email subscription today. Just as Maryland Gov. Lawrence J. Hogan Jr. (R) was finishing his half-hour speech at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valle