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DC bar's liquor license suspended for violating COVID regulations 01/29/2022 11:00pm • D.C. bar and restaurant The Big Board has had its alcoholic beverage license suspended for violating the city's emergency public health regulations, enacted because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The DC Alcoholic Beverage Regulation Administration issued the suspension Friday, effective immediately to 5 taken to hospital after carbon monoxide leak in Northeast DC apartment building 01/29/2022 01:02pm • Five people are in the hospital Saturday with suspected carbon monoxide poisoning in Northeast D.C. D.C. Fire and EMS spokesperson Vito Maggiolo said responders were called to an apartment unit near the intersection of 17th and K Streets for a medical emergency around 10:15 a.m. When they arri DC light snow heads toward New England leaving icy road conditions 01/29/2022 10:55am • Snow that left minimal dusting for much of the region has moved toward the northeast, leaving slick patches of ice and brisk winter weather. Key points:  A winter weather advisory was canceled for large portions of the D.C. area early Saturday morning. Snow totals landed at around a 8 suspected fentanyl overdoses, including 3 deaths in Southwest DC Friday 01/29/2022 08:41am • Eight people are suspected to have overdosed on fentanyl in Southwest D.C. Friday and three of those people died, police say. Five of the overdoses happened on Friday afternoon in less than an hour, said D.C. Council member Charles Allen, who represents Ward 6. More Washington, D.C. Ne 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