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2024 AFC Preview 09/04/2024 06:18am • AFC North Ravens 13-4 In 2023 (and arguably, the prior two seasons), the only team that could beat the Baltimore Ravens was the Baltimore Ravens. Baltimore was the first team in NFL history to lead the league in takeaways, sacks and total defense in the same season, and held Patrick Mahomes a What is the cellphone policy at your child's DC-area school? 09/04/2024 04:00am • From vaping, the cost of school supplies to cellphone policies, the WTOP team is studying up on hot-button topics in education across the D.C. region. Follow on air and online in our series�����WTOP Goes Back to School�����this August and September. Cellphone use in schools has become one of the Breast cancer rising among Asian American and Pacific Islander women 09/03/2024 05:00am • ▶ Watch Video: What to know about new breast cancer screening guidelines Christina Kashiwada was traveling for work during the summer of 2018 when she noticed a small, itchy lump in her left breast. She thought little of it at first. She did routine self-checks and kept up with medi After winning Olympic gold with Team USA, Ashburn, Va. native Emily Fox wants more success with Arsenal 09/03/2024 04:12am • As the final whistle blew in Paris on Aug. 13, the U.S. women's national soccer team rejoiced as it defeated Brazil to win its first Olympic medal in 12 years. The victory was a mission accomplished for Ashburn, Virginia, native Emily Fox, who wrote a paper in elementary school about her dream of Small classes, field trips every day: What's a microschool? 09/03/2024 03:45am • From vaping to the cost of supplies and cellphone policies, the WTOP team is studying up on hot-button topics in education across the D.C. region. Follow our series ���WTOP Goes Back to School�����on air and online this August and September. Jordan Kerstetter, teacher-leader at Blue Montessori, Legislation, trash pickups and a cookbook: Montgomery Co. students work 'toward a greener future' 09/02/2024 09:00pm • Young people looking to make sure they're growing up in a greener, more sustainable world aren't waiting around for grown-ups to lead the way. In Montgomery County, Maryland, two student-led groups are coming together to tackle climate change and nutrition all on their own. Lumina Zhang, co-found Nearly 10 years after disappearance of Hoggle children, prosecutor still hopes to try Catherine Hoggle for murders 09/02/2024 07:48am • A decade after his two children went missing, one Maryland father isn't giving up. This weekend will mark 10 years since 2-year-old Jacob Hoggle and 3-year-old Sarah Hoggle were last seen with their mother, Catherine Hoggle, on Sept. 7, 2014. The next day, the children's father, Troy Turner r How to cope with empty nest syndrome when teens leave home 09/02/2024 04:04am • Millions of teens are leaving home this month, headed off to college, the military and beyond. In many cases, they leave unprepared parents behind who are grappling with empty nest syndrome. Dr. Kathryn Ziemer, clinical director at Old Town Psychology, shows parents how to focus on ways to reduc Some parents might miss signs their child has long COVID 08/31/2024 05:04pm • COVID isn't behind us ��� not yet, at least. And there are millions of kids in the U.S. suffering the effects of what's called long COVID, according to medical journal Pediatrics. The World Health Organization defines long COVID, roughly, as having symptoms three months or more after initial infe How to talk to kids about overdoses and drugs as they head back to class 08/31/2024 01:47pm • Fentanyl overdoses and drug use at school are issues parents may want to talk about with their kids as they head back to school ��� but what are the best ways to broach the subject? ���You're starting middle school for the first time, or high school for the first time, there can be pressures to m Review: No. 1 movie on Netflix is new raunchy teen comedy 'Incoming' about freshman looking to party 08/30/2024 04:13pm • August means back to school, so are you looking for a wild teen party flick for Labor Day weekend? You might try the raunchy teen comedy "Incoming," which is currently the No. 1 movie on Netflix. It's nothing we haven't seen before in "Mean Girls" (2004) or "Superbad" (2007), but it's not A local lactation consultant clears up common myths around breastfeeding 08/30/2024 05:27am • August is National Breastfeeding Month, a time to raise awareness about the benefits of breastfeeding and support new families. A local lactation expert says it shouldn't be so confusing. "One of the biggest myths is that breastfeeding has to be hard," said certified lactation consultant M In first year of weapon scanners, no guns brought to Prince William Co. schools 08/29/2024 03:54pm • In the first year they were used, weapon detection scanners deterred students from bringing weapons and vapes on campus, Prince William County Public Schools reported, and their use will now be expanded to some sporting events. During the 2023-24 year, the first with Evolv scanners in all middle Virginia Board of Education approves changes to accreditation, accountability systems 08/29/2024 02:20pm • The Virginia Board of Education on Wednesday approved the final touches on the state���s Every Student Succeeds Act plan, designed to address concerns with how schools were rated and student performance was measured to determine better how to direct state resources. During the special meeting in Owners of NY rental home pleads guilty to homicide after fire kills Potomac sisters 08/28/2024 05:07pm • When flames broke out at a Long Island rental home in 2022, the family staying there said no fire alarms went off. Now, the rental owners have pleaded guilty to charges associated with the deadly fire. Sisters Lindsay Wiener, 19, and Jillian Wiener, 21, died in a nearby hospital following the fir