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DC has to turn over transportation plan for students with disabilities, judge says 07/11/2024 09:06pm • D.C. has to turn over its transportation plan for students with disabilities this fall, a District Court judge said Thursday. Judge Paul L. Friedman ordered the city���s Office of the State Superintendent of Education to work with the groups representing families to see if an agreement can be rea Prince William Co. schools to expand restrictions on student cellphone use 07/10/2024 10:08pm • Prince William County Public Schools intends to expand its restrictions on cellphone usage to all middle and high schools next year. The undertaking ��� an expansion of last year���s pilot program restricting phone usage in county schools ��� comes as Gov. Glenn Youngkin is making ���cellphone-fr Joe Lee, founder of a popular DC-area record store, dies at 76 07/10/2024 04:53pm • Joe Lee, whose Montgomery County shop, Joe's Record Paradise, was a popular gathering spot for D.C.-area music fans, died July 4 at the age of 76. His son Johnson told WTOP Lee had been battling throat cancer and died at a hospice center in Rockville, Maryland. Joe Lee (left) and Zev Feld Kroger to sell 6 DC-area Harris Teeter stores in Albertsons merger 07/10/2024 08:17am • Kroger and Albertsons have released a final list of the hundreds of grocery stores they plan to divest as part of their $24.6 billion merger, despite the legal challenges and union opposition they face. The stores proposed for sale include six Harris Teeter locations in the D.C. area ��� in Darne From 'Body Like a Back Road' to 'Locked Up': Country crossover star Sam Hunt performs at Jiffy Lube Live 07/10/2024 04:22am • Few country music stars have crossed over in recent years more successfully than Sam Hunt. This Friday, Hunt brings his "Locked Up Tour" to Jiffy Lube Live in Bristow, Virginia, for a blend of new radio hits like "Outskirts" and career-defining tunes like "Body Like a Back Road." "There'll Gov. Youngkin issues executive order establishing 'cellphone-free education' in Virginia 07/09/2024 04:47pm • Gov. Glenn Youngkin on Tuesday issued an executive order requiring public school divisions to adopt policies establishing cellphone-free education by January 2025. The order directs the Virginia Department of Education to initiate "a robust public engagement effort with parents, students, teacher DC go-go legend and EU frontman Sugar Bear celebrates 50 years of music in Tysons, Bethesda 07/09/2024 02:17pm • A D.C. music legend is celebrating 50 years of his beloved go-go group Experience Unlimited. Sugar Bear brings EU to Capital One Hall in Tysons, Virginia this Friday, July 12, followed by a pair of shows at Bethesda Theater in Bethesda, Maryland on July 26 and 27. "Let's have a party, remi Prince George's Co. schools promising better transportation this upcoming school year 07/08/2024 11:00pm • There were too many times during the last school year that simply transporting kids to Prince George's County Public Schools turned into a fiasco. Buses were late, if they even showed up, and so many routes were essentially vacant because the county didn't have enough bus drivers on staff. This f Family celebration turned memorial after Bowie couple dies on pilgrimage to Mecca 07/08/2024 06:28am • When the Hampton Conference Center was originally booked for July 7, it was to be a celebration to congratulate Alhaji Alieu Dausy and Haja Isatu Wurie on their journey. Instead, the Capitol Heights, Maryland, venue was the site of a memorial service honoring their memory Sunday. The Bowie cou John Cena announces pending retirement from WWE competition in 2025 07/07/2024 08:00am • ▶ Watch Video: 7/6: Saturday Morning You won't be seeing John Cena in the ring for much longer. The pro wrestling icon announced his impending retirement from WWE Saturday, making a surprise appearance at the promotion's "Money in the Bank" event in Toronto. "The 2025 Royal Rumble w Screen time in summer: Why limiting your child's screen time could be the best thing for their health 07/06/2024 05:48am • In summer, and especially on holiday weekends, kids have more time to spend on screens. But doctors say this can lead to mental and physical problems. "We have a whole generation of kids who are used to screens," said Dr. Asha Patton-Smith, a clinical psychologist with Kaiser Permanente's Mid-Atl Maryland could hold back 3rd-graders with low reading proficiency 07/05/2024 12:09pm • A proposed literacy policy in Maryland could have third-grade students held back for a year if they don���t achieve certain reading scores on state tests, or ���demonstrate sufficient reading skills for promotion to grade 4.��� Maryland would join more than half of states that allow third-grade s DC police's youth summer curfew now in effect 07/05/2024 05:30am • D.C. police have started enforcing the city's summer youth curfew as part of a plan to curb violence and keep communities safe. The summer juvenile curfew started July 1 and runs through August 31, beginning at 12:01 a.m. and ending at 6 a.m. It is in effect seven days a week. The curfew isn't As a Harpers Ferry museum closes, its 92 wax figures are looking for a new home 07/03/2024 06:47pm • The home of the John Brown Wax Museum in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, has been sold. Now, 92 of the 93 wax figures that help tell the story of Brown, the abolitionist who led the raid on the Federal Arsenal at Harpers Ferry in 1859, need a new home. Ted Staley, the man who has owned and opera 3-year-old shot dead inside Howard Co. home in apparent accident 07/02/2024 07:56pm • A 3-year-old boy was shot and killed inside a Columbia, Maryland, home Monday in what Howard County police said was an apparent accident. The shooting happened inside a home on Harpers Farm Road. Detectives have determined a handgun was left unsecured inside the residence. Police are still trying