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Motorcyclist dead after Indian Head Highway crash 11/06/2021 03:00pm • A man is dead after a fatal crash involving a motorcycle and an SUV which took place Saturday morning near Fort Washington on Indian Head Highway, police in Prince George's County, Maryland, said. According to the report, police and emergency services were called to the scene around 10:50 a.m. af For those experiencing domestic abuse, DC has resources that can help 11/06/2021 02:40am • Nearly 40% of women in D.C. have experienced intimate partner violence, which is higher than the national average of 25%, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's latest report. Three D.C. officials told WTOP that the city has a slew of resources to help survivors. Michelle G Fairfax Co. schools employees report 97% vaccination rate as deadline passes 11/05/2021 04:14pm • With the deadline for school system staff in Fairfax County, Virginia, to be vaccinated against the coronavirus passing, the school system said 97% of staff who responded to a survey report being partially or fully vaccinated. In August, the county's government and school system both announced a DC streets to close for Asian-inspired 'Red Eye Market' 11/05/2021 11:17am • An open-air night market celebrating the food and cultures of the Asian diaspora will cause a number of D.C. street closures, impacting drivers on Saturday night. The Red Eye Night Market is a family friendly, open-air night market paying homage to the foods and cultures the Asian diaspora, accor Amazon's first HQ2 retail tenants: dogs and coffee 11/05/2021 09:30am • An artist's rendering of what the architecture and public space at Metropolitan Park in the National Landing neighborhood will look like. (Courtesy Arlington County) Amazon’s sprawling Metropolitan Park and PenPlace HQ2 additions in Arlington County, Virginia, will have at least 140,000 square Presto's Picks: Dukes dealing college football dominance for dollars 11/05/2021 05:38am • College football's conference carousel has a history of taking the game in unexpected directions: for every South Carolina that joins the SEC, there's a Boston College joining the ACC. The final ripples of this summer's seismic shift (Texas & Oklahoma bolting the Big 12 for the SEC) hit somew Emergent BioSolutions, feds terminate long-running pandemic preparedness contract 11/04/2021 11:03pm • Emergent BioSolutions Inc. and the Department of Health and Human Services have terminated a pandemic preparedness contract the Gaithersburg company has held since 2012. Emergent (NYSE: EBS) said it reached "a mutual agreement" to terminate a contract that established a public-private partnership DC Water to begin disconnecting service to customers with past-due bills in December 11/04/2021 04:47pm • Residents with a past-due balance with DC Water have until the end of the month to come up with a payment plan or face disconnections, the water authority said this week. Customers with outstanding balances will face disconnections beginning Dec. 1. The policy was put on hold during the pandemic. Family seeks independent investigation into Loudoun Co. drowning near Potomac River 11/04/2021 09:53am • The mother of 16-year-old Fitz Thomas — whose June 4, 2020, drowning in a creek near the Potomac River prompted scrutiny of why it took so long for first responders from both Virginia and Maryland to locate the teen — is calling for an independent investigation. Members of the Loudoun County Baltimore judge dismisses remaining claims in Md. unemployment lawsuit 11/04/2021 05:32am • This content was republished with permission from WTOP’s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for Maryland Matters’ free email subscription today. A Baltimore judge has dismissed the remaining claims in a case that challenged Maryland’s unemployment benefits payment policies. Jud Montgomery County schools investigating 'serious incident' at Wootton High 11/03/2021 11:24pm • The school system in Montgomery County, Maryland, is investigating a "serious incident," in which police were called to one of its high schools. The incident happened Tuesday just after 4 p.m. in a locker room and involved members of the varsity football team at Thomas S. Wootton High School in R New data on antibody immunity against COVID-19, but the real story is a work in progress 11/03/2021 07:30pm • The flu changes every year, and so does the flu vaccine. Will COVID-19 shots be the same? By this time of year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention wants everyone 6 months and older to have gotten a flu shot to help protect against seasonal flu. But with COVID-19, another contagious r Inmates seek release from DC Jail after damning inspection 11/03/2021 05:30pm • Defense attorneys have filed for their clients' release from the D.C. Jail after a U.S. Marshals Service inspection found conditions inside the jail may infringe on inmates' civil rights. The Public Defender Service, whose attorneys filed the motions, did not specify how many inmates' cases it wa First freeze of the season grips DC area 11/03/2021 02:55am • Removing ice from the frozen windshield. (Getty Images) The National Weather Service issued its first overnight freeze warning of the season for the D.C. area on Tuesday, with sub-freezing temperatures gripping the far northern, western and southern suburbs from 2 a.m. until 10 a.m. Wednesday mo Montgomery County relaxes rules on when mask mandate can be reinstated 11/02/2021 05:58pm • The Montgomery County Council, acting as the Board of Health, unanimously voted on Tuesday to relax the coronavirus metrics that dictate when mask mandates in the Maryland county can snap back into effect. The county will now reinstate a public indoor mask mandate only if it sees seven consecutiv