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Satellite imagery finds likely Kim train amid health rumors 04/26/2020 08:36am • This Wednesday, April 15, 2020, satellite image provided by Airbus Defence & Space and annotated by 38 North, a website specializing in North Korea studies, shows overview of Wonsan complex in Wonsan, North Korea. Recent satellite photos show a train probably belonging to North Korean leader Ki Judge orders DC psychiatric hospital to isolate patients following facility cases, deaths 04/25/2020 03:56pm • A federal judge has ordered St. Elizabeths Hospital to isolate patients exposed to the coronavirus after several deaths in the facility. In an opinion released Saturday, the D.C. hospital was ordered by a federal judge to quarantine all patients exposed to the coronavirus separately. Seven pat Coronavirus updates: Several Va. measures extended; free meals to be distributed in Md. 04/24/2020 03:27am • Medical personnel from Montgomery County, Md., check patients arriving for a COVID-19 drive-in testing in Silver Spring, Md., Tuesday, April 21, 2020. Maryland has dramatically boosted its testing capacity for the new coronavirus with a shipment of 500,000 tests from a South Korean company. (AP Pho How does the National Guard keep people safe during a pandemic? By cleaning, sewing and packing 04/22/2020 03:25am • If there's one thing the Covid-19 crisis has taught us, it's that unusual times call for unusual solutions. That's why in Rotterdam, New York, a group of trained soldiers and airmen sat in a call center for weeks, taking more than 118,000 calls from concerned citizens asking about the coronavirus Where have all the flowers gone? Flower Mart at National Cathedral goes online 04/21/2020 06:02pm • Tulips bloom in the Bishop's Garden at the Washington National Cathedral. (WTOP/Abigail Constantino) It's usually a rite of spring — the annual Flower Mart at the Washington National Cathedral. But, this year, the colorful celebration is being sidelined by the coronavirus pandemic. Flower M Prosecutors seek to drop murder case against first DC Jail inmate to die from COVID-19 04/17/2020 08:30pm • The D.C. Jail is seen in this April 2020 photo. (Photo by Jonathan Newton/The Washington Post via Getty Images) Federal prosecutors have asked a D.C. Superior Court judge to drop the indictment and prosecution of 51-year-old Deon Crowell, who died of complications from COVID-19 before standing t Vital services remain open in DC on Emancipation Day 04/16/2020 09:16am • Emancipation Day is typically a day off for all D.C. students and government employees, but the coronavirus pandemic has kept food, shelter and unemployment services open on the annual holiday. The city announced its Department of Human Services will be closed to celebrate President Abraham Linco Montgomery Co. bill would prohibit rent increases during public health emergency 04/14/2020 11:47pm • With unemployment claims rising in Maryland due to the effects of the coronavirus, Montgomery County has introduced a measure to provide relief to renters. The COVID-19 Renter Relief Act would prohibit landlords from increasing rent for residential tenants during and within 30 days after the COVI Farm to table, via driver's window: Drive-thru farmers' market to open 04/09/2020 11:35am • Normally, the farmers market in historic Warrenton is a walking affair. In the midst of the coronavirus, the town will soon try a drive-thru farmers market. (Courtesy Warrenton Farmers Market) On most weekends, a trip to the farmers market includes a leisurely stroll among vendors, sampling a ju No shining moment evokes an all-too-familiar feeling for fans: Loss 04/06/2020 02:41pm • I'll see you courtside. That's what I said at the end of every basketball broadcast I've announced since the late 1990s, when I was calling high school boys’ and Ball State women's games in Muncie, Indiana. Some announcers have simple sign-offs (e.g., Reds announcer Marty Brennaman's "So lo Md. unemployment fund in danger of being depleted, lawmakers are warned 04/02/2020 12:04pm • This content was republished with permission from WTOP’s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for Maryland Matters’ free email subscription today. As the public health crisis spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic worsens, Maryland lawmakers convened Wednesday to discuss the projected medical Coronavirus update: Md., Va. stay-at-home orders in place; DC order in effect April 1 03/30/2020 11:55pm • The latest Editor's note: The stay-at-home order for Maryland started Monday, March 30 at 8 p.m. An earlier version of this story contained an inaccurate description relating to the partial reopening of Liberty University. The campus partially reopened and did not call students back.  Followi DC stay-at-home order: What's allowed 03/30/2020 06:41pm • (WTOP/Brett Snyder) D.C. joined Maryland and Virginia Monday in issuing a stay-at-home order for its residents to help contain the coronavirus outbreak. The order goes into effect on Wednesday at 12:01 a.m. Everyone in D.C. has to stay at their residence, with certain exceptions considered $1M fund to help close DC's 'digital divide' as distance learning begins 03/24/2020 01:33pm • On the first day of distance learning at D.C. public schools, officials announced a new fund that has already raised $1 million to help close the "digital divide" that keeps many students from taking full advantage of online education. The D.C. Education Equity Fund, announced by Mayor Muriel Bow Echoes of 9/11, as New Yorkers 'try to keep calm but we can't quite carry on' 03/22/2020 04:02am • The gates outside the centuries-old chapel in the shadow of the old World Trade Center were padlocked as rush hour descended on Lower Manhattan's desolate streets. "In care for our neighbors, parishioners, clergy, and staff, St. Paul's Chapel is canceling services and ev