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DJ Jazzy Jeff headlines wine fest at National Harbor, reflects on journey with Will Smith 08/30/2021 11:57am • Hear the full conversation on today's "Beyond the Fame" podcast. DJ Jazzy Jeff rose to hip-hop fame alongside "The Fresh Prince" Will Smith. This Labor Day weekend, you can watch him spin at C��l��brez en Ros��, a two-day wine and music festival at National Harbor on Sept. 4 and Sept. 5. As kids return to classrooms across Va., an 'opportune' time to focus on immunizations 08/30/2021 11:10am • Much of the focus over the past year has been on COVID-19, but as kids head back to school, there are concerns that a drop in immunization rates could result in a rise in preventable diseases. August is National Immunization Awareness Month, a time when many health care professionals seek to remi Fauquier Co. schools superintendent warns parents not to disrespect staff as mask policies, quarantines return 08/29/2021 02:17pm • Nearly three weeks into the new school year, Fauquier County, Virginia, school leaders have quarantined more than 300 students. Then they made a sharp reversal on their mask policy, making face coverings mandatory. And now, the district's school superintendent has a warning for upset parents. 2 teens shot in parking lot of Woodbridge high school after football game 08/28/2021 11:04am • Two teenagers were shot and injured in the parking lot of Freedom High School in Woodbridge, Virginia. It happened Friday before 9:10 p.m. after a football game at the school, located on Neabsco Mills Road. The game had ended due to rain, a Prince William County police news release said. Polic Tradition times 2 at annual Alexandria gift card give away 08/28/2021 07:00am • The pandemic might have altered the annual giveaway outside Alexandria's Alfred Street Baptist Church on Saturday, but it didn't stop it. (WTOP/John Domen) Even the COVID-19 pandemic couldn't stop an annual tradition put on by Alexandria, Virginia's Alfred Street Baptist Church. A line of car Mother of 8-year-old killed in Landover vows to keep his legacy alive 08/28/2021 05:45am • The mother of an 8-year-old boy shot and killed in Landover, Maryland, offered poignant memories of her son ��� while vowing to support his friends ��� at a candlelight vigil on Thursday night. Peyton James ���P.J.��� Evans was shot on Tuesday while inside a relative���s home on Brightseat Road. DC-area students get refurbished computers to close digital divide 08/27/2021 06:44pm • For many D.C.-area schools, free gently used laptops jumpstarted many remote learning classes. For 25 years, a federal government program called Computers for Learning has been giving away free computer equipment. "Computers are expensive," General Services Administration spokesman Richard Ste COVID testing at DC schools now opt-out instead of opt-in for students 08/27/2021 04:41pm • D.C. Public Schools students will be automatically enrolled in the city's random coronavirus testing program unless the student, parent or guardian opts out, Mayor Muriel Bowser said Friday. That goes for students at all DCPS schools as well as public charter schools participating in the District 'If I sound frustrated it's because I am': Ward 6 council member rips DC schools 08/27/2021 08:35am • D.C. Council member��Charles Allen held a virtual town hall with education leaders, advocates and parents in Ward 6 on Thursday night and plainly admitted his growing frustration with the city���s school leaders ahead of Monday���s start to the new school year. Allen cited some of the things he�� Montgomery County urges parents to create 'walking school buses' 08/26/2021 02:38pm • With its school year set to begin Monday, Montgomery County wants parents to get creative about getting kids to class in Maryland. The county department of transportation is floating the idea of a ���walking school bus,��� which is a walk-to-school effort organized and led by parents. ���And b COVID-19 outbreak closes closes some Amherst County schools 08/26/2021 10:47am • AMHERST, Va. ��� Amherst County officials say all public secondary schools are closing temporarily after a COVID-19 outbreak. Superintendent Rob Arnold says a person who tested positive and entered a building without notifying staff is the source of many positive cases. News outlets report tha Despite bus shortage, students return to Loudoun County classrooms 08/26/2021 04:28am • Many of 81,000 students in Loudoun County, Virginia, will be headed to their public school classrooms Thursday for the first time since March 2020, at the start of the coronavirus pandemic ��� the challenge will be getting them to school and back. In the midst of a nationwide shortage of bus driv As DC education board calls for flexibility, schools chancellor says city committed to in-person learning 08/25/2021 10:12pm • Five days before the start of school in D.C., the District's State Board of Education is urging Mayor Muriel Bowser to adjust the city's fall plans, calling for increased testing, a vaccine mandate for all students 16 and older and the possibility for schools to add a hybrid or fully virtual option. Prince George's schools accept over 12K kids into virtual learning program 08/25/2021 02:27pm • Over 12,000 kids in kindergarten to sixth grade have been accepted into a virtual learning program in Prince George's County, Maryland. A spokeswoman with Prince George's County Public Schools told WTOP that the program is meant as a short-term measure while the school system awaits the approval Parents worry of COVID-19 risks during indoor school lunches, when masks come off 08/24/2021 09:54pm • Welcoming in-person public comments for the first time in 18 months, the Montgomery County Board of Education on Tuesday night heard from parents and unvaccinated elementary school students concerned about the COVID-19 risk of indoor lunches. "I think that we should eat outside instead of eating