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How to ease anxiety ��� for parents and kids ��� about return to in-person learning 08/04/2021 10:00pm • A Northern Virginia child psychiatrist reports finding more parents than kids are concerned about returning to in-person learning, and she has advice for students and guardians who may be anxious. ���What I'm seeing, a lot, is that parents have concerns about the what-ifs of school and is a full- For a smooth return to school-year schedules, start now 08/04/2021 02:55pm • The school year begins soon, and parents and guardians can start now to help students adjust their sleep and general schedules, and make everyone's lives easier later. Coming off summer break and a year of virtual or hybrid learning, it will take about two weeks to successfully transition into ne Arlington Co. police aim to build community relations on Night Out 08/04/2021 04:10am • Across the nation and throughout the region, neighbors and police mingled Tuesday night in the National Night Out ��� an annual effort to fight crime by building relationships between communities and police. In Drew Park, nestled in Arlington County, Virginia's historic Green Valley neighborhood, Alsobrooks seeks ���immediate��� state review of school board ethics report 08/03/2021 10:10pm • This content was republished with permission from WTOP���s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for Maryland Matters��� free email subscription today. Prince George���s County Executive Angela D. Alsobrooks (D) has asked the state���s top school officials to�� ���immediately��� review ethic Md. to review state contracts with Ben & Jerry's over Israeli boycott 08/03/2021 05:50pm • Maryland plans to take a closer look at any business dealings that the state might have with Ben & Jerry's after the company said it decided to halt business operations in Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories. In a letter to the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington and Good Samaritans in Stafford rescue toddler who fell out of mom's vehicle 08/02/2021 03:59pm • Talk about being in the right place at the right time: A driver who thought he saw a bag in the road in Stafford County, Virginia, quickly discovered it really was a child who had fallen out of her mother���s vehicle. It happened Saturday about 8:30 p.m. on Plantation Drive, near U.S. Route 17. Former Montgomery Co. teacher faces federal child porn charges 08/02/2021 03:26pm • A former Montgomery County schoolteacher who taught in Silver Spring, Maryland, for 25 years is now facing charges of enticing a child and possessing child pornography in New York. School leaders were aware of inappropriate behavior when 70-year-old Richard Scherer was working in Maryland and rec Olympic champion, Maryland native Dominque Dawes shares words of wisdom with athletes 08/02/2021 04:21am • A new generation of U.S. Olympians are standing on the shoulders of giants at the Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Three-time Olympian and Olympic gold medalist Dominque Dawes is one of those giants. The Maryland native doesn't have advice for the gymnasts themselves, but for their parents. "Open you With time running out, DC residents face struggles getting rent relief 08/01/2021 06:59pm • The national eviction moratorium expired Saturday and on July 25, the District's local ban on evictions, tied to Mayor Muriel Bowser's public health emergency declaration, also expired, leaving thousands of D.C. residents on the edge of losing their home. The national moratorium doesn't provide f Loudoun Co. Sheriff's��Office will not pursue charges against private social media group accused of stalking 07/31/2021 03:45pm • The Loudoun County Sheriff's Office has released its report in an investigation into a private social media group accused of stalking local families. The office said that it will not be pursuing charges against those who created or posted in the group. The subject of the investigation was a pr How the pandemic killed a record number of rural hospitals 07/31/2021 03:42pm • A couple dozen nurses stood together on the hospital lawn in rural Randolph County, Georgia. They wore black T-shirts that read "Patterson Hospital 1948-2020" over their hearts. The phrase "We Gave All" was written across a broken heart on their tired backs. Many had spent their entire careers at 19-year-old Glen Burnie woman charged with attempted murder after infant found abandoned in wooded area 07/30/2021 10:45pm • A 19-year-old in Glen Burnie, Maryland, has been charged with attempted first- and second-degree murder in connection with the abandonment of her newborn baby. According to Anne Arundel County police, officers were called to the 600 block of Greenway Road in Glen Burnie on July 14 after residents 'Not going to have 2020 happen again': DC businesses ready for start of new indoor mask mandate 07/30/2021 06:20pm • The line to enter Pitchers in D.C. on Friday night might be longer than usual, owner Dave Perruzza said, and the music will be a little bit lower. The popular Adams Morgan bar is now requiring customers to provide proof of COVID-19 vaccination, and the music will be toned down to allow guests to Review: The Rock, Emily Blunt keep 'Jungle Cruise' afloat for a fun Disney adventure 07/30/2021 01:48pm • Movies have long inspired theme-park attractions like Cinderella's Castle at Disney World, but the reverse doesn't always work, with a mixed track record for movies based on rides. "Pirates of the Caribbean" (2001) launched a beloved franchise with Johnny Depp as Capt. Jack Sparrow, but "The Ups and downs of COVID-19 to require flexibility this school year 07/30/2021 11:03am • Coronavirus cases are rising and parents are putting masks on their list of back-to-school items to get between now and when their kids climb those steps of the school bus again. When their kids closed out those Zoom sessions for the last time in June, as vaccines were becoming more and more avai