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Manassas School Board considering changes to next year’s school calendar 04/16/2024 11:38am • The Manassas City School Board is considering potential changes to next year’s academic calendar to help give teachers time to adjust to and complete new required training as part of the Virginia Literacy Act. There are a number of required trainings teachers must complete for new standards set b Sudden cardiac arrest and sports: How you can save an athlete’s life 04/16/2024 10:01am • This content is provided by MedStar Washington Hospital Center. Playing sports can help athletes of all ages learn lifelong skills such as setting goals and time management while getting in some exercise. Despite these benefits, there is a degree of risk involved with physical activity, such as b 'Among the worst we have seen': Md. mother lit son on fire for making a mess while eating cereal, likely leaving him scarred for life 04/16/2024 06:10am • A Germantown, Maryland, woman has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for lighting her 8-year-old son on fire, leaving him with burns on a quarter of his body and scars he'll likely have for life, according to court documents. Kimberly Tyler, 31, was convicted in December on charges of first-deg Matt About Town: This 14-year-old's marine biology dream comes true with help from Make-A-Wish Mid-Atlantic 04/16/2024 05:03am • .in-article-vertical-video {float: right; padding-left: 10px;width:300px !important;}@media only screen and (max-width: 767px) {.in-article-vertical-video {float: none; padding-left: 20px;}}.in-article-vertical-video connatix_video_caption {width: 300px !important;}#tnvbNcaMHUrl {margin-bottom: 1 'Everybody Loves Raymond,' 'Somebody Feed Phil' creator gives DC's Warner Theatre a taste of comedy 04/15/2024 04:18am • He created "Everybody Loves Raymond" before hosting the food and travel show "Somebody Feed Phil." This week, Phil Rosenthal gives D.C.'s Warner Theatre a tasty menu of comedy on Wednesday. "People ask me, 'What do you do in the live show?' and what I want to tell them is, 'The lights go d Parents of 2 boys rescued from Virginia house fire 'praying for a miracle' 04/14/2024 12:46pm • A Clifton, Virginia, father said doctors told him his two youngest sons were experiencing symptoms of brain death after being rescued from fire at the family's home on Wednesday. Now, parents Jamey and Reina Brice are "praying for a miracle." The boys — 3-year-old Zachariah and 6-year-old Willi Prince George's Co. workshop for adoptive parents of transracial families gives hands-on hair care lessons 04/13/2024 10:50pm • Parents of transracial adoptive and foster families in Prince George’s County, Maryland, learned from trained professionals how to care for and style their kids' hair as part of a workshop hosted Saturday by the Center for Adoption Support and Education (CASE). Parents received hands-on lessons How a Fairfax Co. school is making prom season more affordable for students across the DC region 04/12/2024 11:00pm • About 20 years ago, Miranda Schick was teaching fashion marketing at Centreville High School when her students started to complain. First, Schick said, they started talking about how much money they were spending on prom. She asked if they'd tallied exactly how much they were spending on the Why oatmeal, cereal dries like cement on your bowl 04/12/2024 11:20am • If you've ever finished a bowl of oatmeal or breakfast cereal, dropped it in the sink, and left for work, you know any remnants will be dried like cement by the time you come home. Any parent who has ever tried to chisel away hardened flakes, puffs, Krispies or Oh's after a child tossed a bow EXCLUSIVE: Paul Whelan says his incarceration ‘needs to be resolved now’ 04/12/2024 07:46am • Speaking on a crackly phone line in a Russian prison just after 8:30 p.m. local time in Mordovia on Thursday, Paul Whelan expressed deep concern that too much time is passing as the U.S. tries to free him and Wall Street Journal journalist Evan Gershkovich from their illegal imprisonment. Concern Matt About Town: How local businesses help support Make-A-Wish Mid-Atlantic's goal of turning children's dreams into reality 04/11/2024 04:58am • .in-article-vertical-video {float: right; padding-left: 10px;width:300px !important;}@media only screen and (max-width: 767px) {.in-article-vertical-video {float: none; padding-left: 20px;}}.in-article-vertical-video connatix_video_caption {width: 300px !important;}#tnvbNcaMHUrl {margin-bottom: 1 'I wasn't sick, I was grieving': Md. state employees to get more paid bereavement leave when a child dies 04/10/2024 07:10pm • Among the hundreds of bills passed in Maryland's State House this year is one that will give state employees who lose a child more paid time for bereavement. Currently, state workers get three days of paid bereavement leave. Under the legislation passed unanimously in both chambers, parents of Matt About Town: Meet Md. Make-A-Wish teen with inspiring journey of competing on the soccer field and against leukemia 04/09/2024 05:25am • .in-article-vertical-video {float: right; padding-left: 10px;width:300px !important;}@media only screen and (max-width: 767px) {.in-article-vertical-video {float: none; padding-left: 20px;}}.in-article-vertical-video connatix_video_caption {width: 300px !important;}#tnvbNcaMHUrl {margin-bottom: 1 How Colgan High is using music to prepare students for life after graduation 04/08/2024 09:00pm • Before making the trek to Room 1617 at Colgan High School, sophomore Jordyn Floyd has to sit through French class. Sometimes, Floyd thinks about the challenges of certain assignments, such as writing 15 sentences in French. When the class concludes, Floyd, already stressed and high-strung, walks Virginia's public education accountability system overhaul 04/08/2024 11:46am • When something is not working, change it. The Virginia Board of Education is proposing that kind of transformative change for its new accountability framework, by splitting up the state’s accreditation system into two parts: an accreditation system, to assess whether schools are meeting all req