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First Sweetgreen, now Solidcore: A Northern Virginia native's rise to leadership 02/01/2022 04:27am • This report is part of WTOP's coverage of Black History Month. Read more stories on WTOP.com. For people who live in the D.C. region, salad restaurant Sweetgreen and fitness center Solidcore are most likely familiar business names. Those two companies, which started in the region, now reach fa Prince George's Co. schools chief on budget, alternative schools, in-person learning 01/31/2022 11:30pm • The last group of Prince George's County, Maryland, public school students to receive instruction virtually is now back in the classroom. Students from kindergarten to sixth grade attended school virtually as part of the school system's strategy to try to slow the spread of the coronavirus. In Potomac dad's piano skills make him a TikTok star 01/31/2022 03:35pm • A Potomac, Maryland, father has found stardom on the social media app TikTok. Dan Binstock has played piano his entire life, but he can also play a song immediately after listening to it. During the pandemic, he began a TikTok channel that began with his daughter quizzing him on songs but has Bomb threats made to multiple HBCUs including Bowie State, Howard 01/31/2022 01:58pm • Police respond to Bowie State University's Charlotte Robinson Hall on Jan. 31, 2022, amid a bomb threat. (WTOP/John Domen) Bomb threats were made Monday against several historically Black colleges and universities Monday, including two in the D.C. region: Bowie State and Howard. Maryland Sta Instagram, phone directions lead to arrest in fatal shooting of Montgomery Co. man 01/31/2022 01:55pm • Montgomery County, Maryland, police investigators believe 31-year-old Mario Samm got directions to the new apartment of an acquaintance shortly before arriving and killing Jahandar Rahman Darvish. On Dec. 23, 2021, the 25-year-old Darvish was fatally shot in his apartment in the 19300 block of Ci Loudoun Co. superintendent details alternative placement, discipline changes after 2 sex assaults 01/31/2022 08:40am • While Loudoun County Public Schools hasn't released the independent review it commissioned to review its handling of two sex assaults by the same student at Stone Bridge and Broad Run high schools, Superintendent Scott Ziegler told the school board that safety and discipline changes have been made t Susan Tedeschi ready to rock Warner Theatre with husband Derek Trucks 01/31/2022 04:11am • Listen to the full conversation on our podcast "Beyond the Fame." Imagine combining one of the great blues vocalists with one of the world's best guitarists. That's what happened when Susan Tedeschi married Derek Trucks to form the Grammy-winning band Tedeschi Trucks, which plays Warner Loudoun Co. Supervisor tells district to release report on client's sexual assault case, or lose funding 01/30/2022 12:15pm • Loudoun County Supervisor Caleb Kershner has threatened to withhold funding for the Virginia school system unless it releases a law firm report it commissioned to investigate the system's handling of two sexual assaults at two county high schools involving a then-14-year-old boy, that Kershner's law Therapy dog offers comfort to students, staff at Magruder High following shooting 01/28/2022 06:20pm • Pepper, the courthouse facility dog is specially trained and her handler, Abby Stavitsky says Pepper understands 50 commands. Pepper’s very social and loves meeting new people in a variety of settings, says Stavitsky. In the week following a shooting inside Magruder High School in Montgomery C Virginia AG: State colleges can't mandate COVID-19 vaccines 01/28/2022 04:35pm • RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — State colleges and universities in Virginia cannot require students to get vaccinated against COVID-19, under a legal opinion issued Friday by Virginia’s new Republican attorney general. Attorney General Jason Miyares found that because the state legislature has not passe 4 Montgomery Co. schools to go virtual 01/28/2022 01:58pm • Four schools in Montgomery County, Maryland, will begin virtual learning on Jan. 29, the school system said Thursday. The schools include Harmony Hills Elementary School, Loiederman Middle School, Pine Crest Elementary School and Wheaton Woods Elementary School. The autism program at Westover Ele Review: 'Ice Age: Adventures of Buck Wild' is a little too wild 'under the surface' on Disney+ 01/28/2022 12:57pm • It's been 20 years since "Ice Age" became a pop-culture hit as an uptight woolly mammoth, a loudmouthed sloth and a sarcastic saber-toothed tiger escorted a human baby home. Blue Sky Studios' computer animation was nominated for the second-ever Oscar for Best Animated Feature, a prize that wa Virginia AG says colleges, universities can’t mandate COVID-19 vaccines 01/28/2022 11:53am • Virginia’s new attorney general has followed the new governor’s lead in striking a blow against COVID-19 safety regulations. Attorney General Jason Miyares said on Friday, in an opinion written at the request of Gov. Glenn Youngkin, that public universities in the commonwealth cannot mandate Tempers flare over Fairfax Co. school masks 01/28/2022 07:55am • For the first time since Fairfax County, Virginia, joined a lawsuit against Gov. Glenn Youngkin's order on school masks, the county's school board held a public meeting Thursday, and the mask issue stirred up a passionate debate. "Most of the teachers know this is lunacy and cruel to kids," Carri Adams Morgan vigil marks 100th anniversary of Knickerbocker Theatre disaster 01/28/2022 05:03am • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlXvbtWen3k&feature=youtu.be Exactly 100 years ago, D.C. suffered its deadliest single-day peacetime disaster when the Knickerbocker Theatre roof collapsed under a record 28 inches of snow, killing 98 people. On Friday, Adams Morgan will mark the 100th a