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Maryland AG co-leads support on Montgomery County school board opt-out policy 11/04/2023 08:20pm • Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown (D) is helping to lead a coalition of attorneys general in an amicus brief to support the Montgomery County school board’s policy for students to participate in classroom discussions when books mention LGBTQ+ characters. The brief, filed Tuesday, requests Why native Hawaiians are being 'pushed out of paradise' in their homeland 11/04/2023 09:40am • ▶ Watch Video: Native Hawaiians fear they will be priced out of the state after Maui fires Doreen Hall is among the thousands of native Hawaiians who decided to leave the state with her family because of rising prices in the area. Each year, 15,000 native Hawaiians leave the state for 3 Northern Va. teams win Baltimore Ravens flag football tournaments, heading to Pro Bowl 11/03/2023 11:00pm • We're still several weeks away from finding out if anyone from the Washington Commanders will be going to the NFL Pro Bowl. But even if they're shut out, the D.C. region will still be well represented there. Last month, three Northern Virginia teams won their divisions in the Baltimore Ravens fla After 20 years with 7News, Alison Starling is stepping away from anchoring 11/03/2023 08:30am • A staple of local journalism, Alison Starling is stepping away from the anchor desk at 7News after 20 years of delivering headlines to the D.C. area. Starling made the announcement that her last day on WJLA's air would be Nov. 22 in a social media post on Thursday. The post said that Starling wou Prince George's Co. animal shelter experiencing outbreak of feline distemper 11/03/2023 06:18am • The Prince George’s County Animal Services Facility and Adoption Center in Upper Marlboro, Maryland, said it is experiencing an outbreak of feline panleukopenia, also known as feline distemper. It's a highly contagious viral disease that infects cats, especially kittens, in their bone marrow an Player of the Week: Bishop McNamara's Zachary Betts 11/03/2023 06:01am • Each week, WTOP is picking one student athlete to be featured on air and online as our Player of the Week. This week's WTOP Player of the Week is Zachary Betts of Bishop McNamara High School in Forestville, Maryland. Betts plays in the trenches on both sides of the ball as a defensive and offensi How Loudoun Co. is responding to rise in student overdoses 11/02/2023 08:48pm • Amid a controversy about whether Loudoun County Public School officials in Virginia notified parents about suspected student overdoses quickly enough, some parents say they were told about the incidents and praised the way school leaders handled them. In a news release earlier this week, Sheriff How the Virginia election may shake up gun laws 11/02/2023 05:58pm • Follow WTOP’s coverage of the Virginia Election 2023. The politics surrounding gun control have been at a standstill in Virginia due to its divided government, but the state could take a hard turn depending on what happens in its closely-watched election that's coming up on Tuesday. With Rep Va. Gov. Youngkin issues guidelines for notifying parents of school-related drug overdoses 11/02/2023 01:21pm • Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin issued an executive order Wednesday aimed at bolstering the response to school-related drug overdoses after one northern Virginia school district reported 10 suspected student overdoses had taken place across six high schools less than halfway through the school year. School board candidate in Fairfax Co. back on the ballot after judge's ruling 11/02/2023 12:56pm • Follow WTOP’s coverage of the Virginia elections. The Fairfax County Office of Elections "requalified" Franconia District school board candidate Marcia C. St. John-Cunning after a new ruling about her campaign Wednesday. “This decision is justice for the 3,000 residents who already exercis Bark Social expands to Alexandria with Barkhaus deal 11/02/2023 11:18am • Bark Social — an off-leash dog park for dogs and a bar for their human parents — is expanding with the acquisition of Barkhaus, a similar dog park and bar, in Alexandria, Virginia's Del Ray neighborhood. Bark Social, which has billed itself as the first social club for dogs and their owners, 'I get to tackle people, and not get into trouble:' 2nd grader is only girl in Loudoun youth football league 11/01/2023 09:59am • Seven-year-old Julia Arnold thought she wanted to be on the cheer squad for the Upper Loudoun Youth Football League: "I started cheer, and then I looked at the boys and said, 'I'm done with cheer. I want to play football. That looks really fun for me.'" The 2nd grader's parents Karen and Jeramy A Accountability, not punishment, is the goal at some Md. juvenile justice programs 11/01/2023 07:45am • People who work in the field of restorative justice say two things have to happen to make the practice of "community conferencing" work: all parties have to agree to the process, and everyone must agree to a resolution once it is decided upon. As the Montgomery County Council examines using the m 8 juvenile overdoses reported at one Loudoun Co. high school 11/01/2023 06:49am • At least eight opioid-related overdoses have been reported at a high school in Loudoun County, Virginia, in the last three weeks. The Loudoun County Sheriff's Office is investigating the overdoses reported at Park View High School in Sterling where "four of the overdoses occurred in the school, a Inflation, economy on the minds of Virginia voters ahead of upcoming election 11/01/2023 04:07am • In less than a week, Virginia voters head to the polls for a closely-watched, high-stakes election, and the economy is on the minds of many people who will cast a ballot, according to a recent poll from The Wason Center at Christopher Newport University. The poll of 800 likely voters from Virgini