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Some of the world's cleanest pigs, raised to grow kidneys and hearts for humans, are in Va. 07/21/2024 09:07am • BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) — Wide-eyed piglets rushing to check out the visitors to their unusual barn just might represent the future of organ transplantation – and there’s no rolling around in the mud here. The first gene-edited pig organs ever transplanted into people came from animals born on Fairfax Co. approves update to school boundary policy despite criticism from some families 07/19/2024 05:31pm • Fairfax County Public Schools will be able to review school boundaries every five years, as part of an update to the Virginia school district's policy approved Thursday night. School district leaders say the change, the first to Policy 8130 in decades, will allow them to address overcrowding Police ID 2 men killed in DC shooting that also wounded 2-year-old girl on walk with day care classmates 07/19/2024 01:30pm • Police have identified two men killed in a shooting in Southeast D.C. on Thursday that also wounded a 2-year-old girl on a walk with her day care class and are offering a $50,000 reward. In a police news release Friday, the two men were identified as 29-year-old Lamont Street, of Capitol Heig 'We desperately need help': A DC day care owner's urgent plea after shooting wounded 2-year-old girl 07/19/2024 08:25am • At the Cre8tive Korner Early Learning Center on Alabama Avenue in Southeast D.C. on Thursday, teachers loaded a group of 2-year-olds into a red six-seat buggy and set out for a walk to take in the fresh air on what was one of few mild-weathered mornings this month. Sadly, the children and the Montgomery Co. student named Maryland's first-ever youth poet laureate 07/19/2024 06:44am • Eighteen-year-old Tara Prakash, a rising senior at Sidwell Friends School, was recently named Maryland's first-ever youth poet laureate. (Courtesy Tara Prakash) Tara Prakash is 18 years old and has already performed on the stage at the Kennedy Center. She's not a musician, but a rising senior As Virginia works toward statewide school cellphone policy, some are skeptical it’ll actually work 07/19/2024 05:15am • In Oveta Scott’s classroom at Unity Braxton Middle School in Manassas, Virginia, there’s a strict no-cellphone policy in place. If something’s wrong or there’s an emergency, Scott allows her students to send a message or make a call directly in front of her, before putting the device Summer COVID cases rise in DC area, local health expert pushes for vaccinations as Biden tests positive 07/18/2024 11:25am • President Joe Biden has contracted COVID-19 and will be recovering at his home in Delaware with reportedly mild symptoms. He is one of many from the D.C. area experiencing the surge in coronavirus cases. Trying to have a little summer fun in record-breaking heat has forced more people to move the Pointer Sisters are so excited — and they just can't hide it — to play MGM National Harbor 07/17/2024 04:06am • D.C. music fans are so excited — and we just can't hide it — for a triple dose of nostalgia next week. The Pointer Sisters will join The Commodores and The Spinners for a trio of legendary groups at MGM National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Maryland, on July 26. "This is the first time I've wo DC woman accused of stealing, crashing car with ill woman inside found incompetent to stand trial 07/16/2024 08:11pm • The woman accused of stealing an SUV outside a D.C. hospital with an ill patient in the passenger seat was found incompetent to stand trial Tuesday. Kayla Kenisha Brown, 22, of Southeast, is accused of crashing the stolen car into a downtown D.C. building in early June. The passenger, 55-year-old Patton Oswalt's journey from Va. military brat to Pixar animated rat 07/16/2024 03:52pm • Virginia-native comedian Patton Oswalt returns home to perform live at The Lyric in Baltimore, Maryland, on Friday. He admits that it's a tricky time to craft standup material after the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump. "I'm sure I'll be talking about it," Oswalt to 'Proud to come home': Montgomery Co.'s new superintendent explains the realities of the job he's taken on 07/16/2024 07:13am • The new superintendent of schools for Montgomery County, Maryland, is entering his third week on the job with the new school year beginning in just over a month. Thomas Taylor, who came from Stafford County, Virginia, now leads Maryland's largest school district, with a budget of $3.3 billion, mo DC school tries paying at-risk families as a way to reduce truancy 07/16/2024 05:39am • Some families in D.C. will soon be getting direct cash payments as part of a program that's fighting against truancy. The program is being carried out at the Social Justice School, a charter school in Northeast, where 15 families will each get $2,400 over the course of three months, with money di Dumfries woman named Prince William County's Foster Parent of the Year 07/15/2024 09:27am • Dumfries resident Linda Cheeks is a salon owner, avid volunteer, veteran — and mother to many. The last role is what earned her the title of Prince William County 2024 Foster Parent of the Year from the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments. In addition to raising her daughter (who She grew up in McLean. Now she’s part of one of the ‘greatest sports dynasties' in the US — and heading to her 2nd Olympics 07/15/2024 05:24am • Growing up in McLean, Virginia, Claire Collins played almost every sport you can think of. Soccer, basketball, lacrosse and volleyball — and she swam, too, in the summers with the Northern Virginia Swimming League. But it was a sport she took up in high school that has made her a two-time O Lack of sleep linked to high blood pressure in children and teens 07/11/2024 09:19pm • A new National Institutes of Health study has linked a lack of sleep to high blood pressure in children and teens. So how can parents make sure their kids are getting enough sleep to stay healthy? “Start decreasing screen time about two hours before bed and lower the dimness on the devices,"