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No diplomats, no Venezuelans as activists occupy DC embassy 05/07/2019 08:27pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Venezuelan embassy in Washington has been full of people for a month. None is a diplomat. None is Venezuelan. The Venezuelans are all outside — a crowd of expatriates who angrily demand the eviction of American activists who moved into their embassy to support embattled Feds sue WV governor's coal companies over safety violations 05/07/2019 07:38pm • CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The U.S. government sued nearly two dozen of West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice's coal companies Tuesday to get them to pay about $4.8 million in unpaid mine safety fines. The civil lawsuit was filed by federal prosecutors in Virginia on behalf of the U.S. Department of Lab DC's International Spy Museum reboot set to thrill, educate visitors 05/07/2019 07:14pm • Centuries of espionage, including its cloistered history, images and tradecraft, are set to go on display in D.C. on May 12. The International Spy Museum complex, housed in an eye-catching glass and steel building in Southwest D.C., is a labyrinth of virtual and real sights and sounds that do 3 more Maryland medical board members resign amid scandal 05/07/2019 06:41pm • ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Three members of the University of Maryland Medical System's board resigned, the system announced Tuesday, in the ongoing aftermath of a scandal involving financial arrangements that recently led Baltimore's mayor to resign. The medical system announced that board chairman DC road closures for Blue Mass at St. Patrick's Catholic Church 05/07/2019 08:00am • Multiple streets will be closed in downtown Washington on Tuesday for the 25th Annual Blue Mass at St. Patrick's Catholic Church. The Blue Mass at noon honors members of public safety professions like police officers, firefighters and emergency medical services personnel. Hundreds of law enfor Harry and Meghan love story takes new turn: a baby boy (video) 05/06/2019 04:00pm • WINDSOR, England (AP) — The improbable love story between an American actress and a British royal took the best of all possible turns Monday with the arrival of a healthy baby boy. The as-yet-unnamed baby arrived less than a year after Prince Harry wed Meghan Markle in a spectacular televised US Capitol Police officers who have died honored at memorial service 05/06/2019 01:19pm • The families of four late U.S. Capitol Police officers were welcomed at the agency's annual memorial service Monday. The service, held at the U.S. Capitol, honored officer Jacob Chestnut and detective John M. Gibson, who were both shot and killed after a gunman opened fire inside the Capitol on J DC roads to be closed Monday for Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Service 05/06/2019 05:33am • Several roads will be closed in D.C. Monday for the 40th annual Washington Area Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Service. In preparation, the following streets will be closed to both the public and law enforcement members to allow for street cleaning before the service until 3 p.m. on Monday: 911 calling restored for DC Sprint, Boost customers 05/05/2019 01:50am • Sprint and Boost customers can now dial 911 and not get a busy signal in D.C. On Saturday, D.C.'s Office of Unified Communications got reports that the carriers' customers were getting a fast busy tone when dialing 911. UPDATE: 911 service is now restored for Sprint and Boost wireless customer Garden Plot: Tums can help tomatoes, even when they don't have heartburn 05/03/2019 04:52am • Meet Mike in Reston this Sunday. Mike will give two garden talks (at 1 and 3 p.m.) at the Reston Town Center Garden Event on Sunday. Tomatoes? ‘Tum, Tu, Tum, Tum’ Jack Straw in Walkersville, Maryland, writes: “I have a bottle of expired Tums. Can I crush them up and add them to my tomato pla New Maryland House speaker remains an unknown quantity to many 05/02/2019 01:08pm • This content was republished with permission from WTOP’s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for Maryland Matters’ free email subscription today. When Del. Adrienne A. Jones (D-Baltimore County) left her home in Woodstock Wednesday morning to come to Annapolis, she never imagined that Ear infections: What every parent should know 05/02/2019 12:00am • Ear infections are one of the most common reasons children visit my pediatric practice. Recently, there have been changes to the way ear infections are diagnosed and treated. Current evidence-based guidelines stress the importance of pain management during early infection and offer practical ways to Single mom's guide to investing 05/01/2019 08:00pm • 13 investing tips for single moms. No one can juggle plates like a single mom. From getting the kids to school without cereal stuck in their hair to making it to work on time without cereal stuck in yours, life as a single mom is a constant juggling act. Financially speaking, "a single mom has a Adrienne Jones makes history as 1st woman speaker of Md. House of Delegates 05/01/2019 05:29pm • House Speaker Pro Tem Adrienne Jones last week dropped out of the race to become the next speaker of the Maryland House of Delegates, saying it was in the interest of party unity. On Wednesday afternoon in a special session in Annapolis, she got it — just not the way she thought. Jones was elec The Hunt: The significance of ISIS leader Baghdadi's re-emergence 04/30/2019 05:51pm • ISIS leader Abu Bakr al Baghdadi emerged this week in a video after 5 years out of the public eye. On this week's edition of The Hunt with WTOP national security correspondent J.J. Green: Just days before the video was released, Hans Jakob Schindler, the senior director of the Counter Extremism P