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Man charged for stabbing Bowie High student 05/29/2025 05:34pm • A man has been arrested and charged for stabbing a Bowie High School student on Wednesday, police said. In a news release on Wednesday night, police in Bowie, Maryland, said they responded to a call around 2:30 p.m. for a "dispute among several youths" in the parking lot of the high school. There State lawmakers chew on possible food safety updates for Virginia in wake of federal cuts 05/29/2025 10:58am • Since taking his post in President Donald Trump���s cabinet, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has spearheaded a national movement to ���make America healthy again,��� including a plan to phase out synthetic dyes from foods, which have been linked to adverse effects i DC Jewish community remembers Israeli embassy staffers 05/29/2025 10:43am • Under tight security, several hundred people gathered on George Washington University's campus Wednesday night for a service to honor the two Israeli Embassy employees who were killed on May 21 as they left an event at the Capital Jewish Museum in D.C. There were music and prayers in remembrance Child benefit programs cut from DC mayor's budget, two have yet to even begin 05/29/2025 04:44am • Some programs aimed at helping D.C.'s youngest residents stayed in Mayor Muriel Bowser���s proposed 2026 budget, but two others, which have yet to begin, saw no funding from the mayor. One of those unfunded programs was the Baby Bonds plan, an anti-poverty program championed by At-Large Council m Prince George���s Co. police to focus on super smaller areas to squelch crime this summer 05/29/2025 04:15am • Touting big declines in crime so far in 2025, police in Prince George���s County, Maryland, announced their looming summer crime initiative as the school year winds down and crime tends to tick up. ���Our summer crime initiative is built upon the pillars of crime prevention, community engagement, Trump's tariffs threaten 'last vestige of culture' for DC-area's Asian American community 05/28/2025 04:58am • On a rainy Sunday, shoppers dashed from the Talbott Center parking lot and climbed a flight of stairs to a longtime Maryland grocery store and gift shop. Maruichi in Rockville has been the go-to place since 2000 for shoppers hankering for Japanese foods and items, such as bento boxes and soy sauc What's driving a recent surge of homicides in the District 05/27/2025 03:11pm • There were nearly a half dozen homicides in D.C. over the Memorial Day weekend, and it comes as violent crime has begun to tick up with the start of summer. There have been at least 10 homicides in the District in the last 10 days, according to D.C. police data. They include 59-year-old Jose Car Virginia governor vetoed bill to make Black history classes count towards graduation. What���s next? 05/27/2025 08:47am • A Northern Virginia faith leader and parent said she will continue asking state lawmakers to make two African-American history courses count towards the state���s graduation requirements for history, after the governor ��� who vetoed the measure and whose four-year term is sunsetting ��� leaves offi FBI, Apple Federal Credit Union warn parents: Gen Z faces rising threat of online scams 05/27/2025 06:51am • This content is sponsored by Apple Federal Credit Union. In today's digital age, raising financially responsible kids means equipping them not only with money management skills but also with the knowledge to navigate and avoid online scams. Apple Federal Credit Union and the FBI are joining f Nationals Notebook: Everybody's talking about the new kids in town 05/26/2025 03:56pm • The Washington Nationals have one of the youngest rosters in baseball. But this past week, they got younger not once, but twice. Prime prospect Robert Hassell III made his major league debut two months after putting the team on notice as a spring training sensation (Hassell posted a team-high 17 Loudoun Co. sheriff renews call for elementary school resource officers 05/26/2025 03:25pm • Loudoun County Sheriff Michael Chapman wants to begin expanding the school resource officer program to the Virginia county's 65 elementary schools, as part of the agency's first public strategic plan. "We certainly have made a request to expand our SRO program to elementary schools ��� we've done New efforts to curb teen violence in DC for Memorial Day weekend 05/23/2025 06:17pm • Over the last several weekends, D.C. police say large groups of teens have damaged property, jumped on restaurant tables, fought in public spaces, and engaged in violent behavior. Several teenagers were recently arrested in Navy Yard. ���It is all unacceptable and we will not tolerate this kind o Rosario's pinch-hit single in 10th lifts Nationals to 8-7 win over Braves 05/22/2025 11:08pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Pinch-hitter Amed Rosario singled home the winning run in the 10th inning and the Washington Nationals topped the Atlanta Braves 8-7 on Thursday night for their fifth straight victory. Atlanta tied it at 7 in the ninth on Matt Olson's one-out RBI double off closer Kyle Finnega Nationals catcher Keibert Ruiz hits an RBI double in his 1st MLB game in front of his parents 05/22/2025 08:11pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Keibert Ruiz gave his parents something to cheer about the first time they got to see their son play a game in the majors. Keibert Ruiz doubled in front of his parents ... who have never seen him play an MLB game. pic.twitter.com/tmFpBR203l ��� Washington Nationals (@Natio 'Grieving and exhausted': Israeli Embassy couple killed in 'targeted attack' remembered 05/22/2025 06:33pm • People who knew the couple killed outside the Capital Jewish Museum in what D.C. police said was a "targeted attack" remembered Yaron Lischinsky as a "smiling guy" and Sarah Milgrim as warm and compassionate. National Council of Jewish Women CEO Sheila Katz said Milgrim was someone she admire