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Military medical personnel to support Md. health care workers treating COVID-19 01/29/2022 01:00am • A military medical team is coming to Maryland to support health care workers treating COVID-19 patients. The 40-person team from the U.S. Navy will help at the Adventist HealthCare Alternate Care Site in Takoma Park. This comes at the request of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which i Winter weather advisories in effect across DC area; Md., Va. declare state of emergency 01/28/2022 11:50pm • Snow is falling in the D.C. region, and the area is under a winter weather advisory until Saturday morning. As temperatures drop, snow will begin accumulating at a faster rate and will continue overnight. Key points:  A winter weather advisory is in the D.C. region through Saturday morn DC 911 call-takers tell lawmakers about short staffing 'emergency' 01/28/2022 09:11pm • The interim director who oversees D.C.'s troubled 911 call center vows improvements are underway, but concedes the agency is very low-staffed and having a hard time finding qualified candidates to fill the ranks. During a hearing before the Committee on Public Safety and Justice, longtime D.C. Of DC police chief IDs woman killed in Days Inn shooting 01/28/2022 03:31pm • D.C. Police Chief Robert Contee on Friday identified the woman who was shot and killed at a hotel Thursday. Dasha Cleary, 20, of Waldorf, Maryland, was one of five people shot at about 4 a.m. Thursday at the Days Inn on Connecticut Avenue in the Van Ness section of the District. “This is a v Israel to buy Novavax COVID vaccine 01/28/2022 10:09am • Gaithersburg, Maryland-based Novavax, expected to formally apply for U.S. Food and Drug Administration emergency use approval for its protein-based COVID-19 vaccine next week, has added Israel to countries buying the vaccine. Israel’s Ministry of Health announced an agreement to purchase an ini New supermarket in DC Ward 7 under consideration 01/27/2022 08:10pm • After years of limited grocery options, some residents of Ward 7 in Northeast D.C. could soon get a supermarket. Mayor Muriel Bowser says the city has agreed with a major grocer to move into the Capital Gateway Market near Fort Dupont — a move that she notes is especially urgent for the east en 61 Montgomery County organizations get hate crime prevention funds 01/27/2022 06:38pm • Over 60 organizations in Montgomery County, Maryland, have been approved to receive a grant that will allow them to improve their security, the county announced. County Executive Marc Elrich announced the recipients of the funds that the county council approved last May. The $700,000 in nonprofit Reconsider travel plans: Snow, ice to affect DC region on Saturday 01/27/2022 01:37pm • The forecast continues to call for winter weather impacts in the D.C. region Friday evening through Saturday, although odds of a blockbuster event are falling for urban areas. Still, Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin is taking no chances and declared a state of emergency due to the severe winter weath Police identify 2 men found slain in Dorchester County 01/27/2022 10:52am • CAMBRIDGE, Md. (AP) — Police are identifying two men found fatally wounded in on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. Maryland State Police say Cleon Mullings of Oxford and Kelvin Wiggins of Cambridge were found Tuesday in Cambridge with multiple blunt force injuries and emergency medical service person Rockville firm gets FDA approval for unique at-home COVID-19 test 01/27/2022 10:50am • Rockville, Maryland-based Maxim Biomedical has received emergency use authorization from the Food and Drug Administration for its at-home COVID-19 antigen test called ClearDetect. Unlike existing at-home COVID tests, it does not require an external reader or dropper bottles. It has three componen Arlington turns to telehealth to free up ambulances 01/27/2022 10:13am • The Arlington, Virginia, fire department is turning to telehealth to help ease the strain on ambulance crews and hospitals. Starting this month, if paramedics or EMTs in Arlington find that a patient meets certain criteria, the emergency workers will ask whether the patient would like to brin Only on WTOP: Magruder student stuck for hours in classroom with alleged shooter speaks out 01/27/2022 08:00am • It has been nearly a week since a 15-year-old student was shot and critically injured in a bathroom at Magruder High School in Derwood, Maryland, and new information has emerged about what happened in the hours following the shooting. As the school went into lockdown Friday, the alleged 17-year-o DC mayor extends indoor mask mandate until end of February 01/26/2022 06:45pm • D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser issued an executive order Wednesday extending the limited public health emergency in the District until Feb. 15 and the indoor mask mandate until the end of February. In the order, Bowser said that while cases linked to the omicron variant appear to be dropping in D.C., t Youngkin pens op-ed defending ban on mask mandates; Fairfax supervisors support school mask requirement 01/26/2022 11:01am • Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin took to the pages of The Washington Post on Tuesday to defend his ban on mask mandates in the commonwealth's schools, a move which is being challenged in court by seven school districts and ignored by more. In his opinion piece on the battle that has dominated his fi Did you know you can get help with COVID-related funeral expenses? Here's how 01/25/2022 07:41pm • The COVID-19 Funeral Assistance Fund has money to help cover costs of COVID-related funerals in the U.S. into the foreseeable future. And while COVID-19 has claimed nearly 865,000 lives in the U.S., only an estimated 300,000 families have filed for reimbursement, according to an advocate who beli