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���A collaborative leader���: Prince George���s Co. community members list requirements for new schools CEO during forum 04/27/2023 08:47am • Parents and community members in Prince George's County, Maryland, got a chance to weigh in on the search for the school district's next leader Wednesday night at Charles H. Flowers High School in Springdale. The Public Engagement Forum, hosted by County Executive Angela Alsobrooks, invited r Va. detective honored for her work to protect suffocation victims 04/26/2023 10:11pm • Detective Lorraine Goldberg accepts her Unsung Heroes award in Richmond on April 26, 2023. (Courtesy Lorraine Goldberg) A Loudoun County detective has a new title ��� Unsung Hero. Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares awarded Detective Lorraine Goldberg during Victims Rights Week for her work How millennial women can overcome savings barriers 04/26/2023 11:49am • From the wage gap to the pink tax, it's no secret women face additional financial barriers. And for millennial women, managing to save or invest their money is a particular challenge. "Millennial women are generally between the ages of 28 and 42 so they are in the thick of young adult life and al Gender-neutral bathroom plans at Loudoun County schools face backlash 04/26/2023 10:38am • Loudoun County Public Schools is seeing push back from parents around a new pilot program that would renovate several school bathrooms in the Northern Virginia school system to make them gender-neutral. According to plans released by the school district in March, several staff bathrooms at Loudoun Coalition taps DOJ in fight over possible historic cemetery in Prince William Co. 04/26/2023 04:56am • The Department of Justice is being asked to step into a battle over land that one organization says is home to the final resting place of people who lived in the Broad Run, Virginia, community of Thoroughfare. Frank Washington said his family was buried in a cemetery on the land now owned by a br Fairfax Co. hospitals experiencing surge in fentanyl emergency room visits among teenagers 04/25/2023 09:23pm • Like other communities in the D.C. region and across the nation, Fairfax County, Virginia, is in the grips of the opioid epidemic driven by fentanyl; and sadly, teenagers are increasingly caught up in the crisis. Concerned parents gathered at Woodson High School Monday night for a briefing by sch Maryland treasurer pledges to help sort out finances of troubled Maryland 529 programs 04/25/2023 05:55pm • When the new law that abolished the Maryland 529 agency that oversaw college savings plan goes into effect June 1, the job of administering the program's assets will fall to Maryland Treasurer Dereck Davis. Gov. Wes Moore signed the bill into law during a ceremony in the Maryland State House on M Md. substitute teacher facing charges of sexually abusing middle school students 04/25/2023 04:25am • A long-term substitute teacher is facing dozens of charges after sexually abusing middle school students he taught in Charles County, Maryland, deputies say. Malcolm Fluellyn, 26, of Bryans Road, was a sub at General Smallwood Middle School in Charles County during the 2022-2023 school year. Flue Maryland Gov. Moore signs bills on his SERVE Act, state budget 04/24/2023 06:18pm • Gov. Wes Moore signed more than 100 bills into law in the latest round of signing ceremonies since the end of the Maryland General Assembly session on April 10. Among the bills getting Moore's signature was the SERVE Act, which creates a year of service open to high school graduates and those wit Under new law, every Virginia public school will need a defibrillator 04/24/2023 02:40pm • Under a new law passed by Virginia's General Assembly this year, every public school across the state will be required to have a defibrillator on hand and ready to be used in case of emergency. The legislation calls for each school to have an automated external defibrillator, or AED, which is a m ACLU and Spotsylvania Co. schools face off over removed library books 04/23/2023 09:09pm • The political dust storm over 14 books removed from high school libraries in Spotsylvania County continues as the American Civil Liberties Union labels the action unlawful and unconstitutional. The group is now petitioning the Virginia state board to intercede. In March, 14 books were removed fro Bijan Ghaisar's family reaches $5M settlement in 2017 US Park Police shooting 04/21/2023 05:48pm • The family of the unarmed Virginia man shot and killed by U.S. Park Police officers in 2017 after a traffic stop has reached a $5 million settlement with the federal government, according to a court filing in the case. The Washington Post first reported on the filing. Bijan Ghaisar's mother an 'It's strep's turn now': The latest post-pandemic infection sending kids to the hospital 04/21/2023 04:28pm • A few months ago, high cases of influenza and RSV were getting kids sick and driving parents nuts. Now, another infection that pediatricians see every winter is keeping kids out of school. ���We have seen an increase in strep,��� said Dr. Gabrina Dixon, a pediatrician at Children���s National Ho Montgomery Co. program helps students struggling with addiction 04/21/2023 04:00pm • The Montgomery County public school system in Maryland is working to draw attention to a program that offers students who are struggling with addiction a safe place where they can work on staying sober and also continue advancing through school. "There is an intense need to provide recovery s Virginia high school athletes could soon profit from product endorsements, other deals 04/21/2023 03:16pm • A big change could be coming for high school athletes in Virginia. The state's high school league is set to finalize a policy that would allow teens to make money off their name, image and likeness. Early next month, the Virginia High School League is expected to approve a so-called NIL policy wi