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Proposed $1.8B Prince William Co. schools budget calls for new administrators to oversee discipline 02/10/2025 05:20pm • Prince William County Superintendent LaTanya McDade has unveiled her $1.8 billion budget proposal for fiscal 2026, a package that includes funding for special education and new administrators to oversee discipline. At Wednesday's school board meeting, McDade said the budget includes money for 33 She gives kids in DC space to discuss mental health. Now, she's a national teacher of the year finalist 02/07/2025 09:50pm • There's a note taped to the wall near Jazzmyne Townsend's desk at Stanton Elementary School in Southeast D.C. It's from a third-grade student who Townsend worked with last year, and it was written after a session in Townsend's office. It said, "I love the way you teach me." The student wro Victims of midair plane crash near Reagan National Airport honored at Alexandria vigil 02/06/2025 03:50am • To mark one week since a deadly midair collision between an American Airlines jet and a military Black Hawk helicopter near Reagan National Airport, a large crowd gathered in Alexandria's Rivergate City to remember the 67 people killed in the tragedy. Many held candles as Virginia Rep. Don Be Blood donation: Why every drop counts 02/05/2025 04:44pm • ��� This content is sponsored by Inova Health. Every two seconds, someone in the United States needs blood. For 60 years, Inova Blood Donor Services has been the sole supplier of blood products to the Inova Health System, as well as more than a dozen other hospitals and medical centers in t Montgomery Co. road dedicated to police officer who died in crash 3 years ago 02/04/2025 08:40pm • A portion of a road in Montgomery County, Maryland's Spencerville community was dedicated to a police officer who died three years ago to the day. On the morning of Feb. 4, 2023, Montgomery County police officer Douglas Haggerty, 36, was involved in a single car crash on Spencerville Road nea 'Orwellian overreach': Social media platforms file lawsuit over Md. law on kids online privacy 02/04/2025 11:18am • A trade association representing major social media platforms asked a federal judge Monday to block a state law that imposes privacy and other protections on children using social media and other online platforms. The lawsuit��by NetChoice, which has been expected for months, comes four months af He���s the first Black American to compose a full opera. It���s finally being staged after 138 years 02/02/2025 09:00am • (CNN) ��� For the briefest of moments, a silence fell over the pews of New Orleans��� famed St. Louis Cathedral, as the chapel filled with a collective sense the audience was about to witness history. They were the first to hear composer Edmond D��d�����s opera ���Morgiane��� ��� the earliest kno Northern Virginia skating community grieves friends on board flight that crashed near Reagan Airport 01/31/2025 09:45pm • In the lobby of Ashburn Ice House, a pile of flowers, stuffed animals and hand-written notes is growing. A note on one of the card attached to a blue stuffed bear reads, ���In honor of our ice mates.��� A card sitting above a pile of flowers said, ���With deepest sympathy from your hockey How community support becomes key to DC-area residents in wake of Potomac River crash 01/31/2025 04:50pm • With the impact of the American Airlines crash reverberating across the D.C. region, residents are being called on to lend support to one another and seek community in their time of grief in the days and weeks to come. Northern Virginia school communities are working to support students after lea What's known about the victims of the plane, helicopter crash near DC 01/31/2025 08:30am • Two aircraft collided midair near Reagan National Airport on Wednesday night in a catastrophic crash that left no survivors, according to authorities. Some of those killed in the collision had roots in the D.C. area, including students who attended school in Fairfax County and their parents, acco With immigration enforcement now allowed in schools, Fairfax Co. superintendent has a message for parents 01/29/2025 05:15pm • In the days after President Donald Trump's administration changed a long-standing policy to allow federal immigration agencies to make arrests at schools, the superintendent of Fairfax County Public Schools has been fielding questions from concerned families. Some have asked whether it's safe to How Kathy Griffin makes cancer and divorce a laughing matter 01/29/2025 05:30am • For the first time in six years, Kathy Griffin returned to what she loves most ��� stand-up comedy. ���I didn't want to be the pretty girl. I didn't want to be the dramatic actress,��� Griffin told WTOP. ���I just always wanted to be the one that made people laugh.��� Before Griffin���s ne Fairfax Co. teachers worry about possibility of immigration arrests in their classrooms 01/27/2025 08:00pm • Some Northern Virginia teachers are worrying about the possibility of immigration arrests in their classrooms, about a week after President Donald Trump's administration ended a long-standing policy that didn't allow immigration agencies to make arrests at schools, churches or hospitals. David Wa President of DC's Kennedy Center to step down at end of the year 01/27/2025 05:46pm • Deborah Rutter, president of the Kennedy Center in D.C. since 2014, said Monday that she will be stepping down from her leadership role at the end of the year. The venue's chair, David Rubenstein, will continue to lead its board committee through September 2026, during the search for Rutter's suc Anchor Dimitri Sotis, whose distinctive warm voice led WTOP's evening news, dies at 55 01/27/2025 05:00pm • WTOP evening anchor Dimitri Sotis, whose deep, warm voice informed and kept listeners in the D.C. region company during storms, elections and breaking news, has died at the age of 55. "It is with the utmost sadness and shock that I write this email to let you all know our friend and coworker,