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'I did it before' — Terry McAuliffe cites experience in bid to return as Va. governor 10/29/2021 05:27am • Democratic gubernatorial candidate former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe speaks during a rally Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2021, in Arlington, Va. McAuliffe will face Republican Glenn Youngkin in the November election. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) EDITOR’S NOTE: Virginians have a few days left to vote for t How Children Develop Fine Motor Skills 10/29/2021 12:00am • Using a fork to eat, zipping up a sweatshirt and turning a doorknob are all things most people do without thinking, but children spend their early years developing and refining these abilities. They are known as fine motor skills. "Fine motor skills refer to the ability to use the small muscles of Teachers say heavy workload in Montgomery Co. schools made worse by vacancies 10/28/2021 10:03pm • School's been in session for just over two months, and already, Montgomery County, Maryland, teachers say they are exhausted. Jennifer Martin, president of the Montgomery County Education Association which represents teachers and substitutes, said that under "normal" circumstances, a teacher's da Loudoun County sheriff investigating accusation of inappropriate touching at middle school 10/28/2021 06:48pm • A Virginia sheriff's office is investigating several incidents of inappropriate touching at a Loudoun County middle school. It happened this week at Harmony Middle School in Hamilton. Staff told the school's resource officer Wednesday that a male student had touched another boy over his clothing Calvert County bus drivers stage another sickout 10/28/2021 12:16pm • Most bus drivers in Calvert County, Maryland, staged a sickout Thursday, following a similar action Monday. Around 100 bus drivers, out of a total of 134, participated in the sickout, according to Calvert County Supervisor of Transportation and Athletics Kevin Hook. The drivers are demanding a Loudoun Co. school board receiving violent threats, school says 10/28/2021 10:03am • School board members in Loudoun County, Virginia, have been receiving violent threats for months, a public schools spokesman said. Wayde Byard told WTOP the threats range from "laughable," with people cursing and "being childish," to serious, which get reported to the Loudoun County Sheriff's Off Most parents don't plan to vaccinate young kids against COVID right away, survey finds 10/28/2021 05:01am • A Covid-19 vaccine could be available for little kids soon, and public health leaders say vaccinating them could help end the pandemic -- but only if parents actually get them vaccinated. A new survey suggests that's uncertain at best. The majority of parents say they will not get their younge Amid coverup claims, Loudoun Supt. Ziegler says he's never received notice of juvenile arrests 10/28/2021 04:34am • In the midst of politically-charged allegations of coverup and malfeasance after two recent sexual assaults in Loudoun County, Virginia high schools, Superintendent Scott Ziegler says he has never, during his three years with LCPS, been notified by the county sheriff's office that a juvenile has bee Side effects of COVID shot in children ages 5 to 11 'mild,' investigator says 10/28/2021 03:50am • When a US Food and Drug Administration advisory committee recommended Tuesday that the agency grant emergency use authorization for Pfizer-BioNTech's Covid-19 for children between the ages of 5 and 11, it was based on data gathered during clinical trials conducted around the United States. One of First-year teacher takes on task of helping DC first-graders progress in a pandemic 10/28/2021 02:35am • First-year teacher Jewel Cauley is a D.C. native. She attended Anacostia High School and now teaches at Stanton Elementary School. (WTOP/Kate Ryan) Jewel Cauley, a first-year teacher at Stanton Elementary School in D.C., has been working to make sure that the parents of her first-grade students 5 Best Dividend Stocks to Buy for November 10/28/2021 12:00am • As we enter November with talk of crude oil above $80 a barrel and supply chain disruptions threatening to upend holiday shopping trends, there are plenty of reasons to be wary of the typical stocks on Wall Street in the near term. But if you're a long-term investor, there are still plenty of oppor What Parents Need to Know About Learning Disability Tests 10/28/2021 12:00am • Learning new concepts and behaviors is challenging for many children. But when difficulty persists despite extra support at home and in school, education experts start looking to see if a learning disability is at play. It may be that a child is struggling to learn to read, or that an inability to s How Financial Advisors Can Build Their Client Base and Keep Them Engaged 10/28/2021 12:00am • In financial services, it's all about the clients. What your clients need, what they want, where they are, where they're going and who they can refer along the way. There is no business without clients, and all financial advisors must be experts in the art of finding new clients and engaging existi Family mourns sudden death of 5th grader in Rockville classroom 10/27/2021 09:15pm • A Montgomery County family is mourning the death of an 11-year-old boy after a sudden medical emergency at Farmland Elementary School on Monday. A Maryland boy — a fifth grader at the Rockville school — died Monday after falling ill and collapsing in a classroom, according to school officials Charles Co. schools to livestream classes amid bus driver sickout 10/27/2021 08:07pm • Teachers in Charles County, Maryland, schools will livestream a video feed of their classrooms starting Friday for students who are not able to attend class in person because of transportation issues brought on by the bus driver sickout that will be entering its fifth day. The sickout began Frida