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Md. child care providers for essential workers get 1st payments from state 05/01/2020 09:15pm • The Maryland State Department of Education announced it has processed more than $29 million in payments to thousands of daycare providers in the state, some of which are serving the children of essential workers. The payments are the first to be made to child care providers since an executive ord Frontline Heroes: DC lawyer dons scrubs in pandemic response 05/01/2020 01:02pm • EDITOR’S NOTE: During the coronavirus pandemic, there are people throughout the community working on the front lines. WTOP is honoring essential personnel through its Frontline Heroes campaign. Each day, WTOP chooses two nominees, awards each $100 and donates another $100 to Feed the Fight DC, a Driver following GPS winds up with car submerged in C&O Canal, police say 05/01/2020 12:20pm • A car that crashed into the C&O canal Thursday night setting off an hours-long search for the driver was apparently the result of the man following faulty GPS directions, authorities say. D.C. Fire and EMS were called to the C&O canal Thursday night shortly after 8 p.m. for the report of Weekend road and track guide: Metro preps for summer shutdown; 395 Express Lanes project 05/01/2020 04:40am • Metro On the Washington Metro, much of the work has been reduced due to the stay at home orders during the public health emergency. Metro has transitioned to a preventive maintenance program. Weekend hours are now generally used for enhanced preventive maintenance and testing. This weekend will s Arlington’s $1.3B budget reflects the coronavirus impact 05/01/2020 04:10am • Arlington County, Virginia is expected to lose $56 million in revenue due to the coronavirus pandemic. (Getty Images) The Arlington County board approved a $1.3 billion fiscal 2021 budget that maintains its current level of services, but reveals an estimated loss of $56 million in revenue from m 'Decimated': DC tourism is a wreck, but there's a plan to lure visitors back 04/30/2020 10:46pm • What is normally peak season for tourism in D.C. — spring — has been halted by the coronavirus. But a strategy has been formulated to lure visitors back once the public health emergency is over. "The impact of COVID-19 on the industry as a whole — clearly everything from restaurants to h Montgomery County signs off on $250K emergency funding to cover telework during pandemic 04/30/2020 08:50pm • The Montgomery County Council on Thursday unanimously authorized $250,000 in additional emergency spending for companies or nonprofit organizations incurring large losses related to transitioning to a work-at-home environment during the coronavirus pandemic. Companies that qualify for the Marylan Virginia judge rejects gym owner's petition to reopen facilities 04/30/2020 12:59pm • CULPEPER, Va. (AP) — A Virginia judge has rejected a petition from a gym owner who sought to reopen his facilities despite an executive order requiring the closure of fitness centers and other nonessential businesses. At a hearing Thursday, the judge said Virginia law gives the governor broad a Maryland lawmakers press Hogan on rent relief, unemployment equity amid coronavirus crisis 04/30/2020 06:49am • This content was republished with permission from WTOP’s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for Maryland Matters’ free email subscription today. Democratic members of the General Assembly sent Gov. Lawrence J. Hogan Jr. (R) two letters Wednesday ― one urging the governor to cance Maryland Gov. Hogan orders 'universal' coronavirus testing at all nursing homes 04/30/2020 01:58am • Gov. Larry Hogan issued an executive order Wednesday requiring that all residents and staff members at Maryland nursing homes be tested for the coronavirus, regardless of whether they show symptoms. The governor is also putting a National Guard official in charge of enforcing safety rules at long 'I wanted to say thank you': Montgomery Co. man makes PPE for health care workers 04/29/2020 07:15pm • Dr. James Gregory Jolissaint wears one of the masks made by Eugene Polishchuk. (Courtesy Dr. James Gregory Jolissaint) A Montgomery County, Maryland, software engineer turned a 3D printer he bought to make toys for his children into a machine that helps those on the front lines of the coronaviru Virginia Gov. Northam: Elective surgeries, dental procedures can resume soon 04/29/2020 04:01pm • Virginia residents will be able to start undergoing nonemergency surgeries and dental procedures at the beginning of May, Gov. Ralph Northam said Wednesday. The governor said at a briefing that his executive order prohibiting elective surgeries and limiting dental procedures, which expires late T Could your paycheck be guaranteed by the federal government? 04/29/2020 03:38pm • Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., speaks with a reporter as he arrives at an event marking 100 days since the death of Jamal Khashoggi on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 10, 2019. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) The paychecks of many workers slated to lose their jobs would be guaranteed through feder Coronavirus update: Racine blasts crisis scammers, Bowser expands small business recovery funding 04/29/2020 01:15pm • D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine lambasted those looking to make a buck by taking advantage of the coronavirus pandemic. During a news conference Wednesday with Mayor Muriel Bowser, Racine said his office has received complaints about landlords, management companies, price gouging, robocalls an Police charge Maryland man accused of throwing duck from car 04/29/2020 09:49am • ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Police in Maryland say a man accused of throwing a duckling from a moving car on the Chesapeake Bay Bridge has been charged with animal cruelty. Maryland Transportation Authority Police told The Capital Gazette on Tuesday that 20-year-old Ethan R. Fowler faces two counts of cru