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Frontline Heroes: How this Md. woman helps domestic abuse survivors during the pandemic 05/08/2020 03:42pm • 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 15 ABC stores offering curbside pickup in Northern Virginia 05/07/2020 10:09pm • This article was written by WTOP’s news partner InsideNoVa.com and republished with permission. Sign up for InsideNoVa.com’s free email subscription today. The Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Authority (ABC) is now offering curbside pickup for online orders at 15 stores in Northern Virg Maryland launches portal to connect medical equipment suppliers and buyers during coronavirus crisis 05/06/2020 09:13am • Maryland has launched an online portal to connect the suppliers of medical equipment, such as  masks and gloves, with buyers during the coronavirus crisis, Gov. Larry Hogan announced Tuesday. The Maryland Manufacturing Network Supplier Portal is an online platform where companies that manufactur DC-area restaurants offer Cinco de Mayo takeout specials 05/05/2020 04:07pm • District Taco is available for delivery. It has multiple locations around the D.C. area. (Courtesy District Taco) This May 5 is Cinco de Mayo, Taco Tuesday and Takeout Tuesday, and D.C.-area restaurants are serving up specials to ensure even your stay-at-home celebration is a tasty one. Here Va. barber ready for coronavirus precautions, 'oops' fixes and old conversations 05/05/2020 11:28am • The vibe will be slightly different in The Neighborhood Barbershop, in Falls Church, Virginia when Dustin Foley is able to resume cutting clients' hair, as early as next Friday. "We've worked really hard to foster a place that would encourage people to loiter," Foley said. Hanging out in the s Coronavirus: Americans widely oppose reopening most businesses, poll finds 05/05/2020 09:41am • Fear of becoming infected by coronavirus remains high among Americans, and a vast majority oppose reopening many kinds of businesses, according to a new poll. Despite moves by some states throughout the U.S. to relax coronavirus-prompted restrictions, in a Washington Post-University of Maryland p 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 Virginians stuck at home are fed up with noise from Amazon headquarters project 04/29/2020 04:32am • The coronavirus pandemic has shut down American life as we know it, but construction remains underway on Amazon's second headquarters in Northern Virginia and is producing noise that's frustrating many homebound residents nearby. The Seattle-based online retail giant is building twin 22-story bui Parents try to save Montgomery County school amid coronavirus uncertainty 04/24/2020 08:45pm • While the D.C. region has no shortage of expensive, exclusive private schools, parents say the Seneca Academy in Darnestown, Maryland, isn’t one of them. But they love it, and have a passion for it just the same. “It’s not one of your chic, high-end private schools where everybody drives fa Georgetown's popular French Market goes virtual this year 04/24/2020 06:40pm • Shoppers look at products at the 2019 Georgetown French Market. (Courtesy Georgetown BID)       Georgetown’s annual French Market, an open-air market staged each year between P Street and Reservoir Road on Wisconsin Avenue in the Book Hill corridor of D.C., will instead Montgomery Co. council approves $5M aid for retail shops, restaurants 04/21/2020 11:07pm • The Montgomery County, Maryland, council voted unanimously Tuesday to approve $5 million in emergency aid to retail shops and restaurants that have been hit financially hard by the coronavirus pandemic. The aid is in addition to the $5 million in aid for small businesses that the county approved 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 Northern Virginia food pantry turns to gift cards during coronavirus pandemic 04/21/2020 10:06am • Clients drive up for Haymarket's distribution line early April 18. The Virginia food pantry has recently switched to giving out gift cards during the coronavirus pandemic. (Courtesy Haymarket Regional Food Pantry) A Northern Virginia food pantry is seeking a new way to support their community fa Coronavirus diary: Under quarantine at home and delivering the news 04/21/2020 04:47am • I’m Will Vitka, digital editor for WTOP.com. I’ve been at home, working while in self-quarantine for longer than most. It’s been more than 40 days. And here’s what it’s been like. We need caffeine This is where I write the news. My dog Moby has become my editor. Unfortunately, most of h Coronavirus crisis drives Virginia nonprofit to help those in need in new ways 04/16/2020 07:54am • This article was written by WTOP’s news partner InsideNoVa.com and republished with permission. Sign up for InsideNoVa.com’s free email subscription today. The Haymarket Regional Food Pantry in Virginia's Prince William County, which has provided free food to area residents since 2005, is ada