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Enrollment decline: A struggle for DC-area community colleges 05/31/2022 05:04am • The number of students enrolling in community colleges nationwide, including in the D.C. region, continues to decline, and it is leaving these institutions struggling to boost student numbers. According to the National Student Clearinghouse, which monitors college enrollment numbers, communit 17-year-old charged in Magruder High shooting to be tried as adult 05/26/2022 05:13pm • The 17-year-old accused of shooting a classmate with a so-called ghost gun in a Montgomery County, Maryland, high school bathroom earlier this year will be tried as an adult. Judge David Boynton ruled Thursday in Montgomery County Circuit that Steven Alston Jr. will not have his case moved to juv Hall of Fame inventor 'thrilled' to play role in pandemic-era video, audio chats 05/25/2022 07:19am • Marian Croak can clearly picture sharing her family's landline phone when she was growing up. "I definitely remember the days where we all used to have a telephone that was hard-wired to the wall, so we had to stay still," Croak said. "We graduated to having jacks, where we could actually pick up Selling your house? You may never see the appraiser 05/23/2022 09:25am • The pandemic accelerated changes to the home appraisal process that is an important part of buying and selling residential real estate. Known as appraisal modernization, appraisers began using tools that made the process more aligned with objective comparisons based on readily available informati Montgomery Co. celebrates the return of absent students back to the classroom 05/20/2022 10:42pm • Dozens of middle school students from Montgomery County, Maryland, were in a Rockville courtroom this week but not for a trial. Instead, they were attending a celebration. The 49 students were among the successful graduates of the county's Truancy Prevention Program. The initiative is designed to ���Highly needed���: DC emphasizes clean water, efficient lighting, accessibility projects 05/18/2022 09:34pm • D.C. and federal officials on Wednesday promoted completed, ongoing and future projects as part of Infrastructure Week. Mayor Muriel Bowser held a ceremonial bond signing for a first-in-the-nation public-private partnership to pay to upgrade street lighting with energy-efficient LED technolog What is the 'great replacement theory' cited by the accused Buffalo shooter? 05/17/2022 08:06pm • In online postings, the alleged shooter in the Buffalo, New York, supermarket attack that killed 10 people reportedly associated himself with several hateful ideologies. Among them is ���great replacement theory.��� The far-right conspiracy theory dates back to the mid-1990s and French writer Ren Ting Internet begins installing fiber in Alexandria 05/17/2022 09:52am • Charlottesville, Virginia-based Ting Internet, chosen by the City of Alexandria earlier this year for a municipal Internet service franchise, will begin installing its fiber network in Alexandria this summer. It expects the network to reach more than 90,000 residential and business addresses acro 'These kids are screaming for help': Montgomery Co. Council president on teens and gun violence 05/16/2022 05:05pm • Recent gun violence involving kids as young as 14 in Montgomery County, Maryland, is raising questions about the most effective way to combat such crime. County Council President Gabe Albornoz told reporters in a briefing Monday that while the state has enacted "some of the strictest firearms reg Free high-speed internet coming to some DC neighborhoods 05/16/2022 03:11pm • High-speed wireless internet at low or no cost is coming to people who qualify in some D.C. neighborhoods. The deal involves partnerships between D.C. and internet service providers, who have been given permission to put antennas on city-owned rooftops if they agree to provide reduced or no cost 'Are you OK?' DC group offers tips for discussing scary issues, young adult mental health 05/15/2022 10:29pm • This is part of WTOP���s continuing coverage of people making a difference in our community authored by Stephanie Gaines-Bryant. Read more of that coverage. During this Mental Health Awareness Month, one D.C. organization has tips for having healthy conversations with young family members abo Data Doctors: Crypto 101 ��� Digital Wallets 04/29/2022 04:50pm • Q: I���m just getting started with cryptocurrency and trying to understand where the best place is to store it. A: Cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin and Ethereum, are digital assets that are generally bought, sold, traded and stored in some form of a digital wallet. Cryptocurrencies use encryp Fairfax Co. schools may change when students can use cellphones 04/28/2022 04:29am • Proposed updates to school policies in Fairfax County Public Schools��would ban students from using social media sites for non-academic purposes during school hours and define when cellphones can be used during the school day in Virginia's largest school district. Fairfax County School Board memb Border officers at Dulles seize 100 parcels of London-bound marijuana 04/21/2022 04:39pm • The packages, totaling 150 pounds, were headed to London, according to a CBP news release. (Courtesy CBP) U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at Dulles International Airport confiscated a massive haul of marijuana they said was bound for England. The federal agency said 62 parcels of Herndon High School bans cellphones during class after usage found at 'all time high' 04/12/2022 03:55pm • A high school in Fairfax County, Virginia, is banning cellphone use after school leaders noticed an uptick in students using them during class. In an email to the Herndon High School community, Principal Liz Noto said that beginning this week, the school will "be implementing a schoolwide policy