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DC-area summer camps canceled, delayed due to COVID-19 concerns 05/21/2020 05:00pm • Several parks and recreation departments in the D.C. area have announced that summer camps are canceled or postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. See below for canceled or delayed programs. Maryland Charles County The Department of Recreation, Parks, and Tourism has canceled all upcoming summe Travel in the 'new normal': RVs, camping, one-tank trips will become popular, expert says 05/21/2020 04:31am • Holidaymakers may opt to stay in the country and drive to vacation spots. (Getty Images/iStockphoto/Attila Gimesi) This is part of a weeklong series on WTOP examining the future of travel with CBS News Travel Editor Peter Greenberg. With travel restrictions loosening all around the country, whe Free Loudoun County drive-thru COVID-19 test site reaches capacity hours before closing 05/20/2020 09:31pm • A volunteer helps line up cars at Loudoun County's drive-thru COVID-19 testing site at Bolen Memorial Park. (WTOP/Neal Augenstein) There were dozens of cars in line an hour before Loudoun County, Virginia, began free drive-thru coronavirus testing Wednesday morning at Philip A. Bolen Memorial Pa 'Compassionate and strong': Loudoun Co. executive praises county's pandemic response 05/20/2020 09:13pm • The chair of the Loudoun County, Virginia, Board of Supervisors offered encouraging words Wednesday about the county's coronavirus response and economic standing in her annual state of the county address. Speaking to residents in an online livestream, Phyllis Randall declared that in the middle o Ocean City's mayor on Memorial Day prep in pandemic: 'We're all in this together' 05/20/2020 06:16pm • FILE — A lifeguard watches the ocean in Ocean City, Maryland. (WTOP/Colleen Kelleher) The reopening of the beaches and boardwalk in Ocean City, Maryland, will face a big test this weekend as crowds gather for Memorial Day. How will this work out in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic Northam: COVID-19 crisis shouldn't overshadow Va.'s growing overdose numbers 05/20/2020 05:45pm • A woman wearing a face mask walks past a sign advertising a Memorial Day sale amid the coronavirus pandemic on Monday, May 18, 2020 in Arlington, Virginia. (Photo by Olivier Douleiry/AFP via Getty Images) As Virginia sees a downward trend in the percentage of COVID-19 tests that come back positi VIDEO: WTOP anchor finds 100+ used gloves, masks littered around Northwest DC 05/20/2020 01:51pm • A used latex glove was found on the ground in a Washington, D.C., neighborhood during a WTOP investigation. (WTOP/Ken Duffy) In a single weekend in May, WTOP anchor Ken Duffy found more than 100 pieces of discarded personal protective equipment across just a handful of streets in Northwest D.C. Over DC Pride organizers announce reworked series of Pride Month events 05/20/2020 11:52am • The traditional Pride Month celebrations set for June in D.C. may be off because of the public health emergency, but organizers have unveiled a schedule of revamped events. The theme for the month’s events is #StillWe, and it’s woven through the reimagined celebrations. The Capital Pride A Metro gets $876M in federal funding through coronavirus aid package 05/20/2020 09:49am • The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority will be getting a boost to the tune of $876 million in federal funding, a Democratic delegation from Maryland announced Tuesday. Sens. Chris Van Hollen and Ben Cardin, along with Reps. Steny Hoyer, John Sarbanes, Anthony Brown, Jamie Raskin and D Hogan: Md. sending 10,000 tests, other supplies to support local testing efforts 05/20/2020 02:23am • Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan announced Wednesday that the state is rolling out "universal" coronavirus testing for inmates and staff at all state-run correctional and juvenile, the latest in a series of moves to expand COVID-19 testing. The Maryland Department of Health will work with the Department Inventor of Big League Chew talks about getting in the bubble gum zone 05/19/2020 04:08am • (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=9be9c680-c459-4acb-af21-654a2ccca384';cnx.cmd.push(function() {cnx({playerId: "9be9c680-c459-4acb-af21-654a2ccca384",mediaId: 'e63b370d-d818-4192-be45-18f18ca11a06' }).render("6861536b82cc28c");}); Perhaps now more than ever, we need to be The Week on the Hill: House approves $3 trillion pandemic relief package 05/15/2020 09:53pm • The House has approved the largest relief package ever taken up by lawmakers, to deal with the pandemic, as well as a historic change to allow remote voting. But the more than $3 trillion legislation put together by Democrats isn’t going anywhere in the Republican-controlled Senate. The part Coronavirus update: Bowser joins Booker to unveil new bipartisan small business bill 05/15/2020 01:20pm • The Washington Monument is visible as ​Kristof Grina, co-founder and farm director for Up Top Acres, works wearing a mask at sunrise on one of their rooftop farms in the Navy Yard neighborhood, Thursday, May 14, 2020. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser joined Sen. Cory Booker, D Could cutting work hours save jobs? US lawmaker wants to offer more small business help 05/14/2020 03:51pm • FILE — Sen. Chris Von Hollen, D-Md. talks to reporters in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2020. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File) Small businesses and their employees would get new federal assistance to share payroll costs, to help the firms keep running and save jobs during the coronavirus pandemic Congress urged to provide funding to prevent layoffs of public employees 05/13/2020 08:43pm • The Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments is urging the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate for additional funding in hopes of preventing layoffs of public employees. During the council's May meeting Wednesday, the group determined the recently passed Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Econ