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Take your keys, hide your wallets: Car break-ins increase in DC 02/24/2019 03:34pm • LAUREL, Md. ��� Thieves are snatching valuables from autos and it appears there has been a spike in the number of such property crimes throughout D.C. According to D.C. police statistics, so far this year there has been about a 21 percent jump in citywide thefts from automobiles compared to the s Loudoun Co. superintendent, NAACP address school's black history exercise 02/24/2019 11:51am • WASHINGTON ��� A Black History exercise at a Loudoun County Elementary School has led the superintendent to issue a statement addressing the incident that left many parents upset. Earlier this month, students at Madison's Trust Elementary School were asked to make their way through an obstacle co Black writers share stories, and experiences in Maryland 02/24/2019 06:00am • FREDERICK, Md. (AP) ��� Neither Valerie Jean nor Elayne Bond Hyman spent their entire lives in Frederick County, but both have deep roots in the area roots that extend down into the soil itself. For Jean, they trace back to her parents' home on Madison Street in Frederick, behind the tired tombstone Virginia extends session to consider contentious measures 02/23/2019 08:49pm • RICHMOND, Va. ��� Virginia lawmakers extended their session Saturday night amid a dispute over how to handle the state budget, which will also allow additional work on several other contentious measures. After hearing earlier in the week during an Equal Rights Amendment fight about the importance Loudoun principal apologizes for 'culturally insensitive' lesson on slavery 02/22/2019 01:11pm • WASHINGTON ��� A Loudoun County elementary school principal has sent a letter home to parents, apologizing for a "culturally insensitive" Black History exercise that trivialized slavery. Last week, students in a physical education class for students in grades 3 through 5 at Madison's Trust Elemen Wine of the week: Wines for your pasta party 02/22/2019 05:10am • First it snows and then it rains. A day later, the warmer temperatures melt all the snow, only to snow again a few days later. When the weather is this uncooperative and unpredictable, there���s only one thing to do: Make pasta. So, I consider it a stroke of good luck that my family���s 11th-annual Va. House debates how to handle controversies surrounding leaders 02/21/2019 06:40pm • RICHMOND ��� With Virginia���s top politicians intent to remain in office despite a series of controversies, a powerful speech Thursday on the House floor called for change across the state. Del. Jay Jones, a Democrat who said he spoke only for himself and not the black caucus, called on people t HGTV's Clint Harp sharing his path to 'Fixer Upper' fame at Capital Remodel and Garden Show 02/21/2019 04:34am • WASHINGTON ��� Clint Harp wasn���t sure if he would have enough money to fill up his gas tank in 2012 when he ran into a man who would make him a household name ��� Chip Gaines, co-star of the mega-popular HGTV show ���Fixer Upper.��� Chip introduced Harp to his home designer wife, Joanna and when t Today in History: Feb. 21 02/21/2019 12:00am • Today is Thursday, Feb. 21, the 52nd day of 2019. Today's Highlight in History: On Feb. 21, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon began his historic visit to China as he and his wife, Pat, arrived in Beijing. On this date: In 1613, Mikhail Romanov, 16, was unanimously chosen by Russia's natio 'Shenanigans' dominate Va. fight over ERA vote in Richmond 02/20/2019 06:12pm • WASHINGTON ��� The procedural maneuvers in Virginia's House of Delegates tied to the Equal Rights Amendment, which one senator called "shenanigans," are set to come to a head Thursday with votes on the House floor. On Wednesday, House Republicans hurriedly killed a Republican-backed Senate resolu Record store owner, early DC punk producer Skip Groff dies at 70 02/19/2019 06:50pm • WASHINGTON ��� Skip Groff, whose Yesterday & Today record store in a strip shopping center in Rockville, Maryland, became ground zero in the early days of D.C.'s punk and alternative music scenes, has died at age 70. Groff's wife of 31 years, Kelly Groff, told WTOP that her husband had a seiz Goodnight, John-Boy: Bed-and-breakfast being built near 'Waltons' house 02/19/2019 12:32pm • WASHINGTON ��� Fans of "The Waltons" television show will soon have a new place to stay, evoking the Depression-era home where three generations of the fictitious family lived. Ground was broken Tuesday for a new bed-and-breakfast in Schuyler, Virginia, near the home where writer Earl Hamner, Jr. Va. woman who lost gay rights custody battle to her mother dies 02/18/2019 10:36am • WASHINGTON ��� Sharon Bottoms Mattes, who lost custody of her young son to her mother in 1993 after a Virginia court ruled her same-sex relationship made her "an unfit parent," has died at age 48. In 1991, Sharon Bottoms gave birth to a son, Tyler Doustou. She and the boy's father divorced before Montgomery Co. middle school student attacked in boys' locker room 02/17/2019 05:48pm • WASHINGTON ��� A middle school student was attacked in a boys' locker room by four other students last week, according to a letter to parents from the school's principal. Ridgeview Middle School principal Daniel E. Garcia said the attack happened at the beginning of seventh period on Wednesday, F Celebrity birthdays for the week of Feb 17-23 02/17/2019 12:46am • Here are some celebrities having a birthday this week. Feb. 17: Actor Hal Holbrook is 94. Comedian Dame Edna (Barry Humphries) is 85. Country singer-songwriter Johnny Bush is 84. Actress Christina Pickles (''The Wedding Singer,'' `'St. Elsewhere'') is 84. Actress Brenda Fricker is 74. Actress Bec