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Student charged after threatening on Instagram to blow up Charles Co. high school 02/03/2022 08:48am • A student has been charged with threatening to "blow up" a��Charles County, Maryland, high school in early January. The Charles County Sheriff's Office said the 17-year-old student was behind posts from two separate Instagram accounts made Jan. 6 threatening an attack at Waldorf's St. Charles Hig Amid ���staggering��� nursing shortage, Md. lawmakers target price gouging concerns 02/02/2022 02:05pm • This content was republished with permission from WTOP���s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for Maryland Matters��� free email subscription today. As Maryland hospitals shell out more money than ever to fill a surge of nursing vacancies, state lawmakers signaled on Tuesday that they int Data Doctors: Wi-Fi range extenders vs. mesh networks 01/29/2022 02:49am • Q: I need to improve the Wi-Fi signal in some parts of my house and want to understand the difference between using range extenders and switching everything out to a mesh network. A: There are several variables that may be causing weaker signals in various locations in your home, that include the Md. appeals court tosses murder conviction, upholds manslaughter charge in Bethesda tunnel death 01/28/2022 10:10pm • The Maryland Court of Appeals has thrown out a Bethesda man's depraved-heart murder conviction years after firefighters found another man naked and dead in tunnels beneath his house. Daniel Beckwitt was convicted in the September 2017 death of Askia Khafra. Beckwitt���s attorney, Megan Coleman With added urgency, dozens rally for Maryland ban on 'ghost guns' 01/25/2022 03:51pm • Dozens of gun control advocates from around Maryland gathered in Annapolis on Tuesday to push for a ban on so-called ���ghost guns.��� It���s not the first time lawmakers have tried to pass such a bill, and it���s not the first time advocates have rallied for it. But now that a student from Rockv DC DMV expands opportunities for virtual hearings 01/25/2022 12:00pm • D.C.���s Department of Motor Vehicles is expanding the kinds of hearings drivers can take online. Since March 2020, drivers could elect to move minor moving violations, permit suspensions and revocations and reinstatement hearings online. Starting Tuesday, parking tickets and photo enforcement ti US News ranks 2022 best online programs 01/25/2022 12:00am • As variants of the coronavirus continue to bring uncertainty to the higher education landscape, online and blended learning options have become popular at colleges and universities to help reduce learning disruptions. But the pandemic was not the catalyst for online learning at all schools. Some Data Doctors: Decoding Wi-Fi router tech specs 01/21/2022 07:09pm • Q: I���m shopping for a new Wi-Fi router and want to understand what all the numbers and letters mean. A: Shopping for a Wi-Fi router can be one of the most confusing experiences until you can decode all those numbers and letters. Wi-Fi generations The first thing to understand is which generat Northern Virginia still tops global data center markets (and, what���s a gigawatt?) 01/17/2022 10:47am • Cushman & Wakefield���s 2022 rankings of the Top 10 Data Center markets in the world places Northern Virginia at the top, a title it has held for years. And it is not even close. Silicon Valley and Singapore tie for second largest data center markets globally, followed by Chicago and Atlanta, Russia arrests 14 alleged members of REvil ransomware gang 01/14/2022 08:11pm • ▶ Watch Video: Ukraine government websites hit by cyberattack Russia's domestic intelligence service announced a special operation campaign against the notorious criminal ransomware group, REvil, Friday. According to the Federal Security Service (FSB), Russian authorities raided 25 add DC metro housing market ends 2021 with lower sales, showings 01/13/2022 08:34am • The final report on the D.C. metro area���s housing market for 2021 shows a year-end slowdown, and less activity when compared to the final month of 2020. Listing service Bright MLS reports home showings by real estate agents in December dropped sharply, down 20% from November. Showings were also In final address as governor, Northam says Virginia is 'better than it was' 01/13/2022 06:15am • Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam is on his way out, ready to transfer power to his successor this weekend, and he delivered his final address Wednesday evening. "We are leaving this commonwealth better than it was when we came into office," Northam said, later calling his term as governor the highli Attack on health dept. computers was 'ransomware,' Hogan and cyber czar acknowledge 01/12/2022 02:07pm • This content was republished with permission from WTOP���s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for Maryland Matters��� free email subscription today. Gov. Lawrence J. Hogan Jr. and top Maryland Department of Health officials acknowledged for the first time Wednesday that the perpetrators o Best jobs in America in 2022 01/11/2022 09:00am • The right job for you The pandemic continued to influence the extreme fluctuations of the job market and the way we worked in 2021. Many workers who were able to remain remote did so, as concerns over the coronavirus persisted in spite of access to vaccines; others returned to a workplace that lo Why information security analyst is the No. 1 job of 2022 01/11/2022 09:00am • Hackers are becoming increasingly creative in how they attempt to infiltrate an organization's computer networks and systems. Luckily, information security analysts ensure that the most up-to-date security measures are in place to prevent critical information from leaking into the hands of online cr