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1 teen pleads guilty in Bethesda stabbing 07/15/2022 10:38pm • One of the teenagers accused in a fatal stabbing at a Bethesda, Maryland, shopping center has pleaded guilty to first-degree murder. Joshua Wright, 17, of Bethesda, pleaded guilty before a Montgomery County Circuit Court on Friday in the death of 33-year-old Lawrence Wilson Jr. On Dec. 19, 202 Married teachers from Fairfax Co. on a mission to feed Ukrainian refugees 07/15/2022 09:53am • How far would you go to help refugees of the Russian invasion of Ukraine? For two married Fairfax County Public Schools teachers, the answer is more than 4,600 miles. Lee Hedrick, a government teacher at W.T. Woodson High School, and Meredith Hedrick, chair of the English for Speakers of Other Stellina Pizza decides to embrace its Waffle Shop sign 07/14/2022 10:00am • When a newly-opened pizza place puts a Waffle Shop sign on the front of its building, potential customers could become understandably confused. Stellina Pizzeria decided to go one step further in its homage to an iconic D.C. joint. When Stellina opened its latest location in D.C.'s Mount Vernon T Baltimore officer charged in drug conspiracy, distribution scheme 07/14/2022 08:33am • A Baltimore police officer has been charged in connection to the sale of cocaine, oxycodone, a ghost gun, ammo and "sensitive law enforcement information" in exchange for narcotics, according to a statement from the U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland. Steven Umberto Angelini, 41, was arre Capital Fringe Festival returns in person to Georgetown Park and Sandlot Georgetown 07/13/2022 01:03pm • The Capital Fringe Festival was canceled in 2020 and shifted to a visual art program in 2021. Starting Thursday, it returns live in-person for two weekends July 14-17 and July 21-24. "Capital Fringe Festival is a place where any type of expression is welcome, whether it be with the artists British Open preview: Waiting for Rory's resurgence 07/13/2022 08:44am • Golf's final Major tees off Thursday morning at St. Andrew's. The 150th British Open (or Open Championship, for those sticklers) promises to deliver plenty of pageantry and salutes to the game's history, up to and including Tiger Woods (two of his three Open wins have come at the Old Course) and Jac WTOP Announces Annual Top 10 Contest Awarding $10K to Local Area Businesses 07/11/2022 01:13pm • WTOP Announces Annual Top 10 Contest Awarding $10K to Local Area Businesses For Immediate Release                                                                                                     After 10 Tony Awards on Broadway, 'The Band's Visit' returns to Kennedy Center 07/11/2022 01:27am • It won a whopping 10 Tony Awards, including Best Musical, on Broadway in 2018. The national tour of "The Band's Visit" hits the Kennedy Center now through July 17. "It's one of the shows that won the most Tony Awards in musical theater history (two shy of the record)," Actress Janet Daca 'I know they're scared' — Man shot in Silver Spring shopping center parking lot 07/10/2022 11:41pm • Montgomery County Police said a man was sent to the hospital after being shot at the Briggs Chaney Marketplace parking lot in Silver Spring, Maryland, on Sunday. Officials said the shooting happened just after 5 p.m. in the 13800 block of Outlet Drive near Briggs Chaney Road. Montgomery County Mayor Bowser welcomes Wegmans grocery store to DC's Ward 3 07/09/2022 08:40pm • With her 4-year-old daughter Miranda in the shopping cart child seat, the mayor buzzed the aisles of the new Wegmans. "I love it, I think people are going to really appreciate all of the prepared and ready to go options," Mayor Bowser said. More Washington, D.C. News The new l Virginia's 1st casino opens in Bristol in temporary space 07/09/2022 12:03pm • BRISTOL, Va. (AP) — Virginia’s first casino has opened for business in a temporary space inside a former Bristol shopping mall. The Bristol Casino will be open 24/7, offering 870 slots, 21 tables and a sportsbook. TV station WDBJ reports a line of customers wrapped around the building as t Man indicted in Maryland machine shop killings admitted pulling trigger, investigators say 07/08/2022 01:06pm • The man indicted on charges of opening fire inside a Western Maryland machine shop last month, killing three co-workers, told a sheriff's deputy he pulled the trigger. Joe Louis Esquivel, 23, of Hedgesville, West Virginia, was indicted on 34 counts in connection with the June 9 shooting at Columb Bowser signs bill allowing adult DC residents to self-prescribe medical marijuana 07/07/2022 02:03am • D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser signed into law Wednesday an emergency bill allowing residents 21 and older to self-prescribe medical marijuana. Effective immediately, under the new law, residents over 21 no longer need a doctor's recommendation for a medical marijuana patient card, which was requir How redevelopment of Prince George's Hospital Center will bring amenities to Cheverly 07/06/2022 07:58pm • The town of Cheverly, Maryland, doesn't have a proper coffee shop, but there are plans to change that and bring much more. (WTOP/John Domen) The town of Cheverly, Maryland, and its roughly 7,000 residents have a unique and proud community, but their beloved hometown doesn't have a downtown, let Suspect in Tysons mall shooting held without bond 07/06/2022 04:02pm • The man charged with firing a gun in a Fairfax County, Virginia, mall last month will be held without bond. Noah Settles, 22, of D.C., has been charged with attempted malicious wounding, three counts of discharging a weapon into an occupied building, and use of firearm in the commission of a felo