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The HPV vaccine — what men need to know 07/18/2019 10:51am • The human papilloma virus vaccine protects against HPV infections, which can lead to genital warts and HPV-related cancers like cervical cancer in women and throat cancer in men. Because men, like women, are also at risk for HPV-related cancers, doctors recommend that boys and girls between the a Former Olney Giant to become Onelife Fitness 07/16/2019 11:02pm • A former grocery store is getting new life as a heath and fitness center. Onelife Fitness signed a 10-year lease for the storefront at 17821 Georgia Ave. in Olney. The 41,277-square-foot space was left vacant following Giant Foods' move to a new location less than a mile away. Jim Crilley, the Organizations sponsor school supply drives for at-risk kids in Arlington 07/16/2019 10:00am • This article was written by WTOP’s news partner ARLnow.com and republished with permission. It seems like summer break just started, but some local organizations are already pitching in to help at-risk students prepare for the upcoming school year. Arlington-based Offender and Aid Restoratio Mother of Charlottesville victim: 'Measure of justice' delayed for parents of Army Lt. stabbed at U.Md. 07/16/2019 08:23am • The mother of Heather Heyer, who was killed in Charlottesville is expressing support for the parents of Lt. Richard Collins III, who was killed at the University of Maryland. (AP photo composite) Minutes after the man who murdered Heather Heyer was sentenced to life in prison for driving his car Officer kicks down door to rescue husband and wife in Montgomery Co. fire 07/16/2019 07:27am • A woman and her husband in Colesville, Maryland, were rescued by a Montgomery County police officer and an off-duty firefighter — all before fire trucks arrived to the house. Sgt. Scott Brooks, a police veteran of more than 20 years, and the off-duty firefighter, who were both nearby, saw s Escape summer heat, hustle in Alterspace reading pop-up 07/16/2019 02:18am • There’s a new way to escape the hustle and bustle of Northern Virginia, and it involves a trip to the mall. Through Aug. 2, the Arlington Public Library is popping up inside the recently redeveloped Ballston Quarter to offer locals a new way to engage with books, sign up for library cards and l Another charged in deadly shooting that killed 10-year-old Makiyah Wilson 1 year ago 07/15/2019 06:34pm • Another man accused of being involved in a deadly shooting that killed a 10-year-old girl while she was walking to an ice cream truck in Northeast D.C. last July has been charged with murder. Antonio Murchison, 26, was already in jail when police charged him Monday with premeditated first-degree More than 2 dozen changes to student handbook coming to Fairfax Co. schools 07/14/2019 03:49pm • The Fairfax County School Board has approved sweeping changes to the way students are disciplined in the Northern Virginia county. The new Student Rights and Responsibilities Handbook, which was approved by the board on Thursday, includes more than two dozen changes meant to standardize the way d Virginia high schools launch competitive esports pilot program 07/14/2019 09:25am • High schoolers won't have to exercise to get a varsity letter, now that Virginia is adding electronic sports, better known as esports, as a school competition. The Virginia High School League (VHSL) has approved a one-year pilot program for esports as a competitive activity. For the first year Police: 69-year-old man dies after attacking ICE facility 07/14/2019 03:35am • TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — A 69-year-old man armed with a rifle threw incendiary devices at an immigration jail in Washington state early Saturday morning, then was found dead after four police officers arrived and opened fire, authorities said. The Tacoma Police Department said the officers responde Woodbridge preschool teacher charged with assault and battery of child 07/12/2019 10:33pm • A teacher at a preschool in Prince William County, Virginia, who was accused of mistreating a child earlier this month, is now charged with a crime. Police said the incident happened on July 5 at Minnieland Academy at Cardinal on Feeder Lane in Dale City. Investigators said the teacher, Syeda Eleanor Holmes Norton's fight for equal pay in 1970 still resonates today 07/12/2019 10:51am • By Dana Bash In 1967, my mother — then Francie Weinman — graduated from Northwestern University with a degree from the prestigious Medill School of Journalism. But because she is a woman, the only television news job she could get in her hometown of Chicago was as a secretary at a networ To curb gang violence, Fairfax Co. police want parents to monitor kids' social media 07/12/2019 12:58am • After three gang-related shootings over three days in Fairfax County, Virginia, last week, the police chief said parents can help with their investigations by monitoring their children's texting and social media accounts. "We are in great need of tips from our community about these events because Rethinking the way we raise our boys 07/12/2019 12:44am • Raising children has never been an easy job. Parenting is wrought with anxieties, uncertainties and inevitably, failures. But in today’s cultural and political climate of #MeToo, bullying, substance abuse and mass shootings, parents are questioning convention and asking, “Are we raising o Floods destroyed books for Alexandria summer reading program 07/11/2019 06:10pm • Delayed but not defeated, an Alexandria, Virginia, bookstore will continue collecting donated books for a summer reading program after Monday's floods ruined hundreds that already had been gathered. "We collected 338 books for children at the Campagna Center in Alexandria for summer reading," sai