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Rocking sleepers recalled after links to several infant deaths 05/31/2019 03:18pm • The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission is recalling several models of rocking baby sleepers after infant fatalities were linked to them. The recall affects 4.7 million Fisher-Price brand Rock 'n Play Sleepers as well as 694,000 Kids II brand rocking sleepers. According to the agency, 30 Judge denies defense's request in DUI case that killed 3 kids on Md. 210 05/31/2019 01:00pm • For about two hours, a judge heard arguments that focused on comments made by Prince George's County State's Attorney Aisha Braveboy on the day 27-year-old Thomas Hawks was indicted in connection to a DUI crash that killed three young children on Maryland Route 210 last year. Hawks' defense lawye Measles cases hit 27-year high. Expert calls lack of vaccinations 'disturbing' 05/31/2019 12:42pm • A decade ago, there were less than 100 measles cases a year. Now, just about six months into 2019, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report there are 971. That's the highest tally since 1992, when there were 963 cases … for the entire year. Adding insult How to talk to kids, teens about underage drinking 05/31/2019 12:39am • Before school lets out for the summer, Dr. Ben Nordstrom is giving parents a homework assignment: Talk to your kids about alcohol. Nordstrom, executive director of Responsibility.org, said underage drinking spikes in the summer months when kids have more freedom and less adult oversight. The l Hogan calls for investigation of U.Md. handling of adenovirus outbreak 05/30/2019 05:01pm • Maryland's governor has called for the University System of Maryland Board of Regents to investigate the handling of the adenovirus outbreak at the College Park campus that led to the death of a student. The office of Gov. Larry Hogan said in a statement that the action was prompted by a Washingt LaCroix was the Millennial 'it' brand. Now it has lost its way 05/30/2019 04:01pm • LaCroix was once the "it" brand in one of the fastest-growing parts of the beverage market. But bigger, deeper-pocketed companies have caught up, and LaCroix's popularity is fizzling. Sales for the flavored carbonated water are "effectively in free fall," wrote Laurent Grandet, a beverage an DC attorney general wants input on possible early release for drug lord Rayful Edmond 05/30/2019 02:46pm • D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine announced Thursday that his office has been appointed by a federal court to represent the views of District residents in the resentencing of Rayful Edmond — the drug kingpin who ran a major cocaine ring in Washington in the 1980s. Edmond, 54, is serving life wi No-show in U.Md. murder, hate crime hearing 05/30/2019 02:08pm • Family and friends of U.S. Army Lt. Richard Collins III were waiting in the courtroom hallway. So were the parents and friends of Sean Urbanski, who is charged with stabbing Collins to death in May 2017. But Urbanski wasn't there. Urbanski is set to go on trial July 22 on charges of first-degr ‘Spaces’ co-working space coming to The Boro development 05/30/2019 09:45am • This article was written by WTOP’s news partner TysonsReporter.com and republished with permission. Co-working area Spaces has a new Virginia location is coming to The Boro development later this year. The Meridian Group, the developers behind The Boro, announced the newcomer today (May 30). Award-winning saxophonist Jazmin Ghent heads to DC's Blues Alley 05/30/2019 04:25am • When your name aligns with the genre of music you perform, perhaps a successful music career is meant to be. Florida-based musician and NAACP Image Award winner Jazmin Ghent, who will play back-to-back jazz saxophone shows at Blues Alley in D.C. on June 4, said her parents discovered how much the Column: Is it OK to bandwagon for non-DC sports teams? 05/29/2019 12:24am • If you’re a sports fan with a vested rooting interest, chances are you’ve given some good-natured (or maybe even vitriolic) ribbing to some bandwagon fan of a team you hate. After all, what’s worse than a Dallas Cowboys fan from Southeast D.C. or a New York Yankees fan born and bred in Las Veg Police: Man charged with rape of 12-year-old girl in Wheaton 05/28/2019 05:14pm • A man is facing rape and sex offense charges after police said he drove a 12-year-old girl to her Wheaton, Maryland, home and assaulted her in his car last week. James Allen Booker, 59, of Upper Marlboro, Maryland, was charged with one count each of second-degree rape and third-degree sex offense 10 Md. bills Hogan allowed to become law 05/28/2019 08:26am • This content was republished with permission from WTOP’s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for Maryland Matters’ free email subscription today. By Friday afternoon, when his office announced which bills he’d veto and which bills he’d let become law without his signature, Gov. Law Southeast DC charter school ups security after student fatally shot nearby 05/27/2019 08:40am • Police are actively searching for a suspect in the fatal shooting of a Southeast D.C. teenager killed near his school on Sunday morning. When police responded to the 3500 block of Wheeler Road, SE around 10:30 a.m. — less than a mile from Somerset Prep D.C. Public Charter School in Congress Hei Celebrity birthdays for the week of May 26-June 1 05/26/2019 01:01am • Here are celebrities having a birthday this week. May 26: Drummer Garry Peterson of The Guess Who is 74. Singer Stevie Nicks is 71. Actor Philip Michael Thomas (''Miami Vice'') is 70. Actress Pam Grier is 70. Country singer Hank Williams Jr. is 70. Actress Margaret Colin is 61. Singer Dave Robbi