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Wizards GM speaks of new momentum after rough early season 03/09/2021 05:44am • (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=9be9c680-c459-4acb-af21-654a2ccca384';cnx.cmd.push(function() {cnx({playerId: "9be9c680-c459-4acb-af21-654a2ccca384",mediaId: '540b11a0-b2bc-4318-8d86-723c028e98b8' }).render("6436153628515502");}); Washington Wizards General Manager Tommy Hogan proposes $1K bonus for state employees 03/08/2021 05:44pm • ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan is proposing a $1,000 bonus for all state employees. Hogan submitted a $74 million supplemental budget on Monday to provide for the bonuses. Hogan says the bonuses recognize the hard work of state employees, who have overcome significant challe 'Tsunami' of cicadas coming -- here's what the buzz is about 03/08/2021 04:46pm • One of the millions of periodical cicadas in the area clings to a leaf in Zelienople, Pa. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic) Get ready for the Big Brood. Later this spring, cicadas in massive numbers will emerge from underground hideouts and take to the treetops in a rare — and incredibly loud! — 5 questions for the Wizards as they enter the second half of the season 03/08/2021 11:20am • 5 questions for the Wizards as they enter the second half originally appeared on NBC Sports WashingtonThe first half of the 2020-21 season for the Washington Wizards was one they will never forget and mostly for unfortunate reasons.They lost Thomas Bryant for the year due to a partially torn AC ‘It couldn't possibly be me’ — WTOP anchor Bruce Alan’s fight with COVID-19 03/08/2021 07:08am • (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=9be9c680-c459-4acb-af21-654a2ccca384';cnx.cmd.push(function() {cnx({playerId: "9be9c680-c459-4acb-af21-654a2ccca384",mediaId: 'dc8f20ec-1178-4775-9a5c-b1bbe7c26a42' }).render("8361536b187f9e0");}); I know several people who have had mild ca Beltway Basketball Beat: Bracket racket 03/08/2021 06:58am • Welcome to Conference Championship week! Where bids are handed out and bubbles are burst. Where Georgetown needs four wins in four days while Virginia and Virginia Tech are simply playing for seeding. Where Maryland looks into the mirror and wonders if another March meltdown is in the 2021 foreca A Maryland midwife's success is a family tradition 03/08/2021 04:38am • Helping women give birth is in midwife Billie Hamilton-Powell's blood. She's the Director of Midwifery Services and Mobile Health at the University of Maryland Capital Region Health. Hamilton-Powell is part of WTOP's continuing coverage of Women's History Month and the voices who make a differen DC woman celebrates 100th birthday with help from DC Fire and EMS 03/07/2021 04:35pm • Anita Carmack and her son Albert Reitz welcomed D.C. firefighters to North Capitol Street on Sunday for Anita’s 100th birthday celebration. (Courtesy D.C. Fire and EMS) D.C. Fire and EMS blared horns and flashed sirens Sunday down North Capitol Street not for emergency response, but for the ce DC-area leaders praise local aid included in COVID-19 relief bill 03/06/2021 08:50pm • D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser thanked President Joe Biden and congressional leaders for including local aid in the latest COVID-19 relief package. In a tweet, Bowser thanked President Biden, congressional leaders and D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton. We thank President Biden, Speaker Pelosi, Leader Montgomery Co. Council rethinking police in schools 03/06/2021 03:48pm • Montgomery County, Maryland, is the latest to push forward with a proposal to end the school resource officer program, which would remove police officers from school buildings. The SRO program has come under increasing scrutiny as communities rethink the presence of police in schools. This follow Md. Senate begins discussions on sweeping climate bill 03/06/2021 07:13am • This content was republished with permission from WTOP’s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for Maryland Matters’ free email subscription today. The Maryland Senate began preliminary discussions Friday on a sweeping climate action plan that calls for net-zero statewide greenhouse ga Pandemic fueled a spike in DC consumer complaints in 2020 03/05/2021 03:27pm • While COVID-19 cases surged in the city, the consumer protection division at D.C.'s attorney general’s office saw a surge in complaints from consumers. The office said in its Consumer Complaint Report for 2020 that it saw 2,264 complaints come in — an increase of more than 700 complaints over Timeline: 1 year into the COVID-19 pandemic in DC, Maryland and Virginia 03/05/2021 03:07pm • More than a year ago, reports began circulating about a mysterious new illness in the central Chinese city of Wuhan. It seemed like a world away, and it was — at first. That all changed March 5, 2020, when Maryland authorities announced the first confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus in the Va.'s high court asked to overrule Richmond Confederate statues case 03/05/2021 11:01am • More than a dozen Confederate statues have been taken down along Richmond, Virginia's Monument Avenue, but a lawsuit claims removing them was illegal. Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney ordered the statues removed on July 1, 2020 as part of a public emergency during racial unrest in Virginia's capital Va. schools can opt for remote learning during inclement weather 03/04/2021 05:35pm • RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia lawmakers insisted there will still be snow days for public school students, though the General Assembly recently passed legislation allowing unscheduled remote learning during inclement weather. Alan Seibert, superintendent of Salem City Schools, said during a sub