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Legislation proposes stricter penalty for Virginia vehicle owners who let unlicensed teens drive 12/09/2024 10:52am • Lawmakers will consider a bill in January that aims to stop unlicensed minors from operating a vehicle by charging the vehicle owner with a Class 1 misdemeanor. Tammy McGee, whose son died in a 2019 car accident after an unlicensed and underage teen driver crashed the car he was in, has become an From margaritas to marriages: Frederick���s La Paz restaurant to close after nearly 47 years 12/07/2024 05:57am • One of Frederick, Maryland���s most beloved restaurants will close its doors for the final time on Sunday. La Paz owner Graham Baker decided it was the right time to retire. ���This business, it all started (after) a skiing accident in '77,��� Baker said. ���I came back here to convalesce, an 'What I saw was unacceptable': Immigrant group CASA backs resident lawsuit against Prince George's Co. apartment complex 12/06/2024 05:25pm • Some residents of a Prince George���s County apartment complex have filed a lawsuit against their landlords over what they describe as "an egregious failure to provide a safe, accessible, and sanitary place to live." Before residents can step inside one of the upper units at Park Tanglewood a Fairfax Co. schools superintendent Reid apologizes for the handling of Hayfield football scandal 12/06/2024 11:35am • Dozens of parents lined up to express frustration over a student-athlete recruitment scandal involving an Alexandria, Virginia, high school at a contentious Fairfax County School Board meeting Thursday night. At the meeting, which lasted well into the night, Fairfax County Public Schools Superint Disabled students denied service at Charles Co. restaurant; Cracker Barrel wants to 'make things right' 12/06/2024 04:46am • It was supposed to be a positive educational exercise for Charles County students with intellectual and developmental disabilities: An outing at a local store capped with a meal at a nearby Cracker Barrel restaurant. Instead, as Charles County Public Schools Superintendent Maria Navarro wrote in See you later cellphone: Culpeper students begin putting phones in pouches for school day 12/04/2024 04:26pm • Students in Culpeper County���s middle and high schools began locking up their cellphones this week. In October, school board members opted to utilize Yondr locked pouches to keep students from accessing their devices during the school day. The pouches, which have been implemented in other sch Alexandria bus driver charged with shooting and killing Oxon Hill woman 12/04/2024 09:10am • An Alexandria, Virginia, school bus driver has been charged with shooting and killing a young woman in Oxon Hill, Maryland. Carlas William Carter, 37, and 34-year-old Mary Ashby were arrested and charged for shooting and killing Tamara Jones, 26, on Nov. 26 on Oxon Hill Road near Livingston Road. Maryland school ratings released: 41% get 4 or 5 'star' ratings 12/03/2024 08:15pm • Public schools in the "Old Line State" are seeing some improvements, according to the State Department of Education's annual Maryland School Report Card. The scoring is based on a point system that calculates into a formula were schools earn between one and five stars. Elementary and middle schoo Black Friday and Cyber Monday holiday gift ideas for stargazers 11/29/2024 06:33am • For my annual WTOP ���Gift Ideas For Stargazers,��� I thought I would get this year���s suggestions out to coincide with Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales to possibly help get the best deals for that special someone on your holiday gift list that loves the stars. Internet shopping and quick shi Thousands of kids in Va. foster care need new homes this holiday season 11/29/2024 05:00am • A lot of kids are looking for a permanent home in Virginia ��� and it's easier than you think to get involved. Kerry Graeber is an adoption worker with United Methodist Family Services in Virginia. She said the need is great. "According to the Virginia Department of Social Services, there's ab What to know about the Amazon strike planned for Black Friday 11/28/2024 10:54pm • Workers for the largest online retailer in the world are planning to go on strike during one of the busiest shopping weekends of the holiday season. Amazon employees are preparing to protest in 20 countries, including in major cities in the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom, Japan and Br Majority Hispanic Maryland towns face uncertain future under second Trump term 11/28/2024 01:23pm • Rocio Terminio-Lopez said that when she hears people talking about migration, particularly politicians, she feels like ���they don���t know what they���re talking about.��� Terminio-Lopez knows. An immigrant from El Salvador, she struggled to get citizenship for herself while watching her brot Fairfax Co. adds varsity girls' wrestling to sports offerings, making it more accessible 11/28/2024 09:03am • Intrigued by the prospect of wrestling for the Justice High School team in Fairfax County, Virginia, Nicole Coimbra attended one of the scheduled tryout days last year. However, she quickly realized her aspirations would be short-lived. During the 2023-24 school year, girls interested in join Hayfield football team withdraws from postseason amid alleged violation of league rules 11/26/2024 04:22pm • A Fairfax County high school football team has withdrawn from the postseason amid allegations that it violated Virginia High School League rules. In a statement Monday, Superintendent Michelle Reid said Hayfield Secondary School "announced the difficult decision to withdraw the football team from Live-action 'Lilo & Stitch' movie gets teaser with Stitch wreaking havoc on a beach 11/26/2024 10:27am • The live-action Lilo & Stitch movie has a brand-new teaser for its reimagined 2025 film. In the teaser released by Disney on Monday, a swooping shot of an ocean reveals a beach where Stitch can be seen in live-action form wreaking havoc, loudly giggling while destroying sand castles. The char