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How DC-area synagogues are planning safe, meaningful Jewish holiday experiences 09/06/2021 04:04am • For Rabbi Steven Rein, the approaching High Holiday season has emerged as the most logistically-complicated to date. Before the pandemic, services at Agudas Achim in Alexandria, Virginia, brought about 900 people together to observe Rosh Hashana, the Jewish new year, and Yom Kippur, the day of at More than 230 journals warn 1.5°C of global warming could be 'catastrophic' for health 09/05/2021 08:10pm • Human health is already being harmed by the climate crisis, and the impacts could become catastrophic and irreversible unless governments do much more to address global warming, the editors of more than 230 medical journals said in a joint editorial Monday. The editorial points to established lin Annapolis organization helping those affected by Wednesday’s tornado 09/04/2021 06:10pm • An organization based out of Annapolis, Maryland, is one of several helping those who were affected by the tornado that tore through the area earlier this week. Deloris Bullock, executive director of Blessed in Tech Ministries, said that the state's office of emergency management reached out to t Local officials declare emergency in Maryland's Anne Arundel 09/03/2021 01:12pm • Officials in Anne Arundel County declared a state of emergency Thursday, a day after remnants of Hurricane Ida swept through the region and a tornado touched down near Maryland's capital city. Annapolis Mayor Gavin Buckley and Anne Arundel County Executive Steuart Pittman also toured the storm d Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge 5K to cause several DC road closures on Labor Day 09/03/2021 10:58am • There will be several D.C. road closures on Monday as runners take to the Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge for a Labor Day 5K. The following streets will be posted as "emergency no parking" on from about 6 a.m. to 11 a.m. on Monday: Potomac Avenue, SW from R Street to South Capitol Street, It’s map drawing time: Md. Citizens Redistricting Commission opens public submissions 09/03/2021 08:44am • The Maryland Citizens Redistricting Commission weighed criteria and opened the door for public proposals Thursday. (Photo by Danielle E. Gaines) This content was republished with permission from WTOP’s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for Maryland Matters’ free email subscription� Mayor Bowser's administration extends Medicaid contract against a judge's ruling 09/02/2021 10:21pm • More than 250,000 D.C. residents who rely on Medicaid won't have to worry about losing health insurance, as Mayor Muriel Bowser's administration extended all three of its provider contracts, going against a judge's order. Through the mayor's emergency order, her administration extended the contra DC region set for sunny, fall-like weather after Ida remnants bring floods, tornadoes 09/02/2021 09:43pm • The D.C. area is in for a much-needed stretch of sunny, cool, dry weather as it recovers from the the remnants of Hurricane Ida, which triggered severe storms and deadly flash flooding on Wednesday. Ida may be gone, but the storm's aftermath will be felt for days, if not longer. In Maryland, offi DC's Humane Rescue Alliance rescues trapped dog in New Orleans 09/02/2021 03:14pm • Fulfilling a mission that started 1,000 miles away, an emergency disaster team from D.C.-based Humane Rescue Alliance headed to New Orleans this week in the aftermath of Hurricane Ida and rescued a dog trapped underneath a collapsed shed. On Wednesday, the response team was in Orleans Parish when DC Jazz Fest returns this week at The Wharf 09/02/2021 05:05am • Last year, it was forced to go entirely virtual due to pandemic-related restrictions. This week, the 17th annual D.C. Jazz Festival returns in person from Wednesday, Sept. 1, to Sunday, Sept. 5. "We decided this year that we would do a live, in-person celebration at The Wharf, along with a Man killed in flooding at Rockville apartment complex identified 09/01/2021 10:35pm • A man is dead and another person is missing following flooding at an apartment complex in Rockville, Maryland, that also displaced at least 150 people Wednesday morning. The 19-year-old who died in the flood was identified as Melkin Daniel Cedillo. WTOP's news partners Telemundo Washington spoke Bowser declares public emergency in DC over expiring Medicaid contract 09/01/2021 10:02pm • Mayor Muriel Bowser declared a health systems emergency in the District over the status of the city's Medicaid contract with MedStar health, which more than 200,000 residents rely on for health care. The emergency order went into effect Wednesday, giving members of her administration the auth Flooding, water rescues; 2nd tornado reported as Ida's remnants move through DC region 09/01/2021 09:20pm • Lightning is seen over D.C. on Sept. 1, 2021. (WTOP/Dave Dildine) The remnants of Ida battered the D.C. region Wednesday, bringing tornadoes and flash flooding to a region already waterlogged from recent storms. Two tornadoes struck Maryland, one in Anne Arundel County around 2:15 p.m., and a Wolf Trap, Signature Theatre present Brian Stokes Mitchell, Renée Elise Goldsberry 09/01/2021 12:32pm • Hear the full conversation on today’s “Beyond the Fame” podcast. After a long pandemic shutdown, Broadway officially reopens this week in New York City. Wolf Trap and Signature Theatre are celebrating with "Broadway in the Park" on Friday, featuring Brian Stokes Mitchell ("Hamilton" Betting the farm on solar energy in Maryland 09/01/2021 11:12am • An artist's rendering of what the solar panels will look like arrayed across the land at Triple Creeks Farms in West Friendship. Photo from the Howard County government Flickr account. (Used by permission.) This content was republished with permission from WTOP’s news partners at Maryland Matt