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Corey Glover joins WTOP as Living Colour rocks Hollywood Casino at Charles Town Races 02/01/2024 02:06pm • "More Than Words" meets "Cult of Personality" as Extreme joins Living Colour to rock Hollywood Casino at Charles Town Races in Charles Town, West Virgina on Friday night. WTOP caught up with Living Colour frontman Corey Glover, who joked that the Feb. 2 concert falls on Groundhog Day. "We'll Montgomery County Police Chief Marcus Jones reflects on his 38 years on the job 01/31/2024 06:50pm • Montgomery County Police Chief Marcus Jones said his decision to announce that he'll retire, effective July 1, isn't a decision he came to suddenly. Jones told WTOP that not long after he was named chief of the Maryland county's police department in 2019, he considered the long-term plan, "a Teen girl sentenced to 5 years in fatal DC stabbing of friend after dispute over McDonald's sweet-and-sour sauce 01/31/2024 06:42pm • A Waldorf, Maryland, teenager was sentenced Wednesday to five years in a D.C. juvenile detention center after she pleaded guilty to killing her 16-year-old friend, Naima Liggon, last year in a dispute about McDonald's dipping sauce. The teen will remain in the D.C. Department of Youth and Rehabil 'The Woman King,' 'Love & Basketball,' 'Swagger' filmmakers join WTOP to salute 'Genius: MLK/X' 01/31/2024 02:29pm • The Civil Rights Movement has become synonymous with Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X. Their lives are explored in Season 4 of “Genius" subtitled "MLK/X," which premieres on National Geographic on Thursday, Feb. 1 before streaming on Hulu and Disney on Friday, Feb. 2 to kick off Black H Fighting fraud at the mailbox: Maryland bill goes after postal thieves 01/30/2024 11:40pm • They target the U.S. Post Office's "blue boxes" on street corners where people drop in their checks and letters. They break into mailboxes at town houses and apartment complexes. And they'll pluck mail out of mailboxes at the end of driveways. A new bill proposed in Maryland would go after the th Montgomery Co. parents criticize delay in notifying community about fight that hospitalized student 01/30/2024 03:11pm • Some Montgomery County, Maryland, parents are upset that their child’s middle school waited two days to tell them about a fight that sent a student to the hospital. The fight between two girls happened at Lakelands Park Middle School in Gaithersburg last Wednesday during dismissal; and accordin 'How can I not do this?': DC organizers work to steer young people away from crime and violence 01/30/2024 07:00am • Concern about crime in D.C. has prompted a number of actions on the local and federal level. The latest crime data from D.C.'s Metropolitan Police Department shows a number of categories of crime are down when compared to the same time last year: homicide is down 38% while assault with a dangerou Wolf Trap reveals summer concert lineup 01/30/2024 06:19am • Wolf Trap just announced its summer concert lineup, bringing a ton of major music acts to Vienna, Virginia. Tickets will go on sale to the public on Friday, Feb. 16 at 10 a.m. "Wolf Trap serves as a welcoming haven for all, where our thoughtfully curated roster of award-winning artists guarant Virginia Democrats again push for paid family and medical leave, advance bill 01/30/2024 12:26am • Virginia Democrats are again backing a proposal to create a universal paid family and medical leave program that would be run through the Virginia Employment Commission. The legislation carried by Sen. Jennifer Boysko, D-Fairfax, and Del. Briana Sewell, D-Prince William, would adopt the general m With child care increasingly unaffordable, Virginia lawmakers propose long-term fixes 01/29/2024 07:34am • As federal relief funds dry up, Virginia policymakers are increasingly looking for solutions to residents’ problems in securing affordable child care. Jess Mullins Fullen, a mother of two children in Southwest Virginia, said she and her husband work full-time to pay for their most expensive cos Survey: 4 out of 10 adults in a serious relationship have kept or are keeping at least 1 financial secret from their partner 01/28/2024 01:16pm • New research from Bankrate shows more than 4 out of 10 adults who are married, in a civil partnership, or living with a partner have kept or are keeping at least one financial secret from their partner. Secrets include spending more than their spouse or partner would be OK with, holding any amoun Coalition of progressive advocates, lawmakers seek Maryland tax changes 01/27/2024 10:27pm • A coalition of more than two dozen groups and progressive lawmakers are hoping to leverage looming state fiscal challenges to pass long-desired tax reforms. Advocates describe the as-yet-to-be-introduced omnibus bill as covering roughly a half-dozen policies that have been proposed in separate bi Holocaust survivor shares his story: 'People should be careful that this doesn't happen again' 01/27/2024 03:50pm • He watched his mother get pulled from a Berlin apartment by the SS. On Saturday, International Holocaust Remembrance Day, a Maryland man is telling his family's story. In a new book, Baltimore resident Jochen "Jack" Wurfl, shares the story of the last time he saw his mother — in a prison cell b In response to Supreme Court decision, bill proposes that Maryland’s colleges and universities guarantee admission 01/26/2024 10:48am • Maryland will consider joining a number of states that guarantee admission to certain first-year students at one of the state’s four-year public colleges and universities. Proposed legislation – Senate Bill 5, sponsored by Senate President Pro Tem Malcolm Augustine (D-Prince George’s) — w DCPS teacher on leave for allegations of indecent exposure around apartment complex 01/26/2024 07:28am • A D.C. Public Schools teacher has been placed on leave after an apartment complex alleged they indecently exposed themselves to other residents in the building and posted these acts online. WTOP obtained a copy of a letter sent to Houston Elementary School parents and families from Assistant Prin