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Winners in Neal Augenstein impression challenge tour WTOP: 'I had to get that voicemail recording' 04/02/2025 05:04am • What a fun experience, Monday, as the finalists in our recent "Neal's Signature Sound: The Augenstein Impression Challenge" toured WTOP's newsroom. It was such a pleasure to meet finalists Anne of Arlington, Isaac from Front Royal, and young contestants Elijah from Springfield, along with Jack an ‘Problematic’: Fairfax Co. parent speaks out about proposed cut to program for college students with disabilities 04/01/2025 04:48pm • Michael Newman and his wife and stepson moved from the West Coast to Virginia's Fairfax County a few years ago because of his wife’s new job. The family selected the Virginia suburb specifically after researching Northern Virginia Community College’s offerings for students with disabilities. Beating with bamboo stick breaks Manassas child's arm; parents left injury untreated, police say 03/30/2025 04:54pm • A Manassas couple has been charged after police say the father beat his daughter with a bamboo stick, breaking her arm, and then both parents allowed the injury to go untreated for nine days. On March 26, detectives began an investigation stemming from an assault on a child that occurred at a hom 'Clean your plate' leads to problems; doctor offers ways to encourage healthy eating in kids 03/28/2025 04:38pm • For generations, well-meaning parents have resorted to an arsenal of food rules, including "clean your plate before you leave the table," to try to get their children to eat a well-balanced diet. "My parents said the same thing to me," said Dr. Michele Arthurs, a family medicine physician with Ka Baysox break ground on big refurbishments for Prince George’s Stadium 03/27/2025 03:09pm • Prince George’s Stadium in Bowie, Maryland, is getting its biggest refurbishment since it opened in the mid-90s. A ceremonial groundbreaking was held on Thursday morning to celebrate the new project, which aims to turn the stadium into a year-round venue and provide one of the best minor le So, what's Signal? Tech expert on app Trump administration used to discuss attack plans 03/27/2025 10:59am • Amid the fallout regarding a Signal chat among senior national security officials that inadvertently included The Atlantic Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg, tech expert Ken Colburn of Data Doctors says the app is secure for messaging. "When we say secure, we're talking about communication between The Key Bridge, One Year Later: How life has changed in Baltimore Co. since the bridge collapse 03/26/2025 04:22am • It's been a year since the crash that collapsed the Francis Scott Key Bridge into the waters of the Patapsco River in Baltimore. An expedited cleanup mission got the wreckage out of the water and opened up the channels that allowed cruise and cargo ships to return to Baltimore within a couple Maryland residents outraged over drug rehab facility near Montgomery Co. school 03/25/2025 05:15pm • Tensions ran high Monday night as Montgomery County, Maryland, residents gathered at Greenwood Elementary School to voice concerns over a drug rehabilitation facility set to open near the school. The meeting, hosted by Montgomery County Council member Dawn Luedtke, aimed to address residents’ q Lawsuit aims to halt dismantling of Education Department 03/25/2025 11:14am • Teachers' unions are joining a group of parents and other organizations in a new lawsuit aiming to stop the dismantling of the U.S. Department of Education. The case, filed in Maryland federal court Monday, was brought by the National Education Association, NAACP, AFSCME Maryland Council 3 and a Prince George's Co. athletic directors suing school system over wage theft accusations 03/25/2025 04:20am • A group of athletics directors employed by Prince George’s County Public Schools have filed a lawsuit against the Maryland county's school system over charges of wage theft — accusing it of promising to pay them at one rate for taking on additional, full-time teaching duties, but then paying the A new mural in downtown DC memorializes a school shooting victim 03/24/2025 04:21pm • If you are walking around Chinatown in D.C. you may notice a new six-story mural. The famous street artist who put it there hopes it sparks conversation about school shootings. The mural, off H Street, not far from Capitol One Arena, is a painting of Joaquin Oliver that is dozens of feet tall. U Md. groups say they never saw donations from charity golf event organized by Sugar Ray Leonard's son 03/24/2025 10:50am • In October 2024, a charity golf tournament advertised as a fundraiser which would help empower young girls in Maryland took place at the Lakewood Country Club in Rockville, and to those who attended, it appeared to be a success. But now, almost five months later, the two charities advertised as t Stafford Co. parents soon must opt-in for kids' bus ride to school 03/24/2025 09:08am • Parents in Stafford County, Virginia, who want their children transported on a public school bus next school year will need to opt-in. Stafford County Public Schools is moving toward the opt-in model, for which students will be picked-up in the morning and returned in the afternoon. After a ro Maryland health officials say 3 confirmed measles cases are cause for caution, not panic 03/23/2025 11:09am • Health officials have confirmed three measles cases in Maryland this month, but say it’s not time to panic about an outbreak given the state’s more than 96% vaccination rate against the highly transmissible virus. But with outbreaks occurring in other states, experts are urging Marylanders to Georgia high school football coach faces 30 years for Md. girlfriend’s strangling death 03/22/2025 04:17pm • Prince George’s County State’s Attorney Aisha Braveboy provided the latest update in a press conference Friday on the Atlanta-based former football coach Carl Kearney Jr., 43, who pleaded guilty to the February strangling murder of his girlfriend Patrina Best, 38, in Prince George’s County