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'Dear Evan Hansen' director Stephen Chbosky adapts from stage to screen 09/24/2021 03:57am • Hear the full conversation on today's "Beyond the Fame" podcast. In 2015, "Dear Evan Hansen" premiered at Arena Stage before becoming a Broadway smash that won six Tony Awards, including Best Musical and Best Actor for Ben Platt. This Friday, the musical hits the big screen directed by Ste Loudoun Co. schools change rules for public participation in board meetings 09/23/2021 11:54pm • In response to a rising national trend of disruptive, sometimes violent, local school board meetings, the school board in Loudoun County, Virginia, has changed their guidelines on who is allowed to participate. The school system said in a news release that starting at the next board meeting on Se Should Anne Arundel Co. students be given medical marijuana at school? 09/23/2021 09:18pm • A Maryland law passed in 2020 allows public school students to receive medical marijuana treatments on school property if they have a prescription. At a meeting Wednesday night, members of the Anne Arundel County school board said the new law may put their employees at risk. For students with a m Parent expresses frustration as Georgetown student illnesses impact at least 40 09/23/2021 03:36pm • The number of students sickened on Georgetown's D.C. campus has ticked up. The university earlier this week said that 12 students on the main campus have reported symptoms including severe stomach pains, vomiting and diarrhea. As of Thursday morning, that figure is over 40. According to the un Hallelujah! Rufus Wainwright brings his singular style to The Anthem in DC 09/23/2021 01:56pm • Hear the full conversation on today's "Beyond the Fame" podcast. He's built quite the career since Rolling Stone named him Best New Artist in 1998. Now, you can see Rufus Wainwright perform at The Anthem this coming Tuesday. "It's been a while since I've played D.C. proper," Wainwright to DCPS, Howard U. team up in effort to get more students vaccinated — and point out Nicki Minaj is wrong 09/23/2021 09:42am • D.C. Public Schools and Howard University have partnered up to encourage more District students to get vaccinated. They hosted a town hall Wednesday night to answer questions from parents about the vaccine. More D.C. News "Our work continues to ensure families know that the CO DC welcomes the Children’s National Research & Innovation Campus 09/23/2021 12:07am • The Children’s National Research & Innovation Campus was officially welcomed to the former Walter Reed Army Medical Center campus on Wednesday with a visit from D.C.'s mayor and city council chair. The partnership of Children’s National Hospital, Virginia Tech and Johnson & Johnson In Loudoun Co. board makes plan to repair racial injustices to Black community 09/22/2021 08:25pm • One year after voting to formally apologize to the Black community for operating segregated schools decades ago, the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors agreed to set in motion a plan to repair the injustices they believe the community suffered. Algonkian District Supervisor Juli Briskman, who sp At least a dozen Georgetown students sickened; cause unknown 09/22/2021 06:00pm • There's a nasty bug on the Georgetown campus in D.C. The university said that since Tuesday, 12 students on the main campus have reported symptoms including severe stomach pains, vomiting and diarrhea. The students are being treated, and the school said it's working to figure out whether the c Officials free Va. man accused of hiring hitman to kill wife 09/22/2021 05:29pm • VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) — Prosecutors in Virginia dropped all charges against a man charged with hiring a hitman to kill his ex-wife after the accused hitman withdrew his guilty pleas and refused to cooperate with the investigation into the 2004 double slayings that also left the woman's 7-year-o Q&A: Johns Hopkins doctor discusses importance of nuance when dealing with COVID-19 09/22/2021 04:15pm • Debates are raging across the United States on the best ways to handle the coronavirus pandemic and many people have entrenched themselves in one camp or another — often drawn along political lines. WTOP's John Domen spoke with Dr. Martin Makary, a surgical oncologist and chief of the Johns Hop ONLY ON WTOP: Children's National ER employee cites staffing shortage for 10-hour waits 09/22/2021 03:37pm • Children's National Medical Center, in D.C., is in the midst of a staffing shortage as COVID-19 continues to affect more unvaccinated children and winter viruses, such as RSV, arrive early this year. One employee told WTOP it's contributing to the longest emergency room wait times in recent memory. DC clarifying COVID-19 quarantine guidance for students 09/22/2021 03:16pm • D.C. Health is clarifying its quarantine guidance to provide greater details on what families and students should do if a child tests positive for the coronavirus. Specifically, if a student tests positive, "siblings who reside in the same household as the positive student are considered close co Review: Black revival of 'The Wonder Years' shows the other side of American history 09/22/2021 12:32pm • It's hard to find a show more beloved than "The Wonder Years," which was appointment viewing for families on ABC from 1988 to 1993. It was set exactly 20 years earlier, from 1968 to 1973 as Kevin Arnold grew up in a middle-class white family in suburban America. If you somehow missed it, pull Stafford Co. board could withhold funding over pronouns, teachings on race 09/22/2021 11:29am • Stafford County's Board of Supervisors has voted to withhold funding for school programs that would teach so-called "critical race theory," as well as those that require a student to state their chosen pronouns. The proposal, authored by Republican Supervisor Gary Snellings, gives the board the l