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Maryland native, DC high school coach works to improve Black health 09/20/2021 04:20am • Getting the right health information to African American males, who are more likely to die prematurely, can be challenging in the age of disinformation. Forty-two-year-old Milton Yates is the current coordinator at the National African American Male Wellness Agency and founder and CEO of My Fit F Arlington, Alexandria join Fairfax Co. in passing 5-cent tax on disposable bags 09/18/2021 06:31pm • Shoppers in three areas of Northern Virginia will soon have to pay for plastic bags at the checkout. The Arlington County Board on Saturday unanimously approved a 5-cent local tax on the use of disposable bags provided by grocery, convenience and drugstores. Later Saturday, the Alexandria City Amy Grant hails gospel documentary 'The Jesus Music' en route to The Birchmere 09/17/2021 01:00am • Hear the full conversation on today’s “Beyond the Fame” podcast. Amy Grant fans will have two chances to see the gospel-pop singer in the coming days. First, she will perform live at The Birchmere in Alexandria, Virginia this coming Monday. "We have worked like crazed people to br Where do you find kindness? How about at an Arlington yard sale? 09/16/2021 03:04pm • Susan Thompson-Gaines wants to spread kindness. This weekend, she's doing it through a big yard sale at her house. She says it's hard to miss the home she shares with her husband, David — it's the yellow house with purple trim at the corner of South Second and South Fillmore streets in Arlingto Emerging stronger will take more loans and grants for DC small businesses 09/16/2021 02:36pm • This content is sponsored by Wells Fargo. The resiliency of millions of small businesses across the U.S. has been deeply tested as the pandemic lingers. With a focus on keeping small businesses open, Wells Fargo continues to provide access to vital capital and resources needed to weather the fina 'Slightly mixed feeling': Montgomery Co. exec concerned about negative impacts of firm vaccine mandate 09/15/2021 03:53pm • While several area leaders have voiced their support for a county vaccine mandate with no option of weekly testing instead, Montgomery County, Maryland's executive said he is wary of the potential consequences. Montgomery County Executive Marc Elrich said he would like to implement a stricter vac Buying in bulk isn’t always best 09/15/2021 08:54am • Shoppers at big box club membership retailers like Costco or Sam’s Club can save significant money by buying in bulk, but bulk buying has its downsides and the savings are sometimes insignificant, if there are savings at all. LendingTree compared prices for 20 common items bought in bulk at tho Georgetown French Market will be an in-person sidewalk sale again 09/15/2021 08:49am • The Georgetown French Market, which typically attracts thousands of shoppers to its sidewalk sales, will be an in-person event Oct. 1 through Oct. 3 this year. Last year's Georgetown French Market was held virtually because of the pandemic. The French Market, which is staged on sidewalks outsi Fairfax Co. approves 5 cent tax on disposable plastic bags 09/15/2021 04:27am • A 5-cent tax on disposable plastic shopping bags in Fairfax County, Virginia, was adopted during a public hearing on Tuesday. The tax approved by the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors is intended to limit the use of single-use plastic bags. According to Clean Virginia Waterways, plastic shoppin No public threat after perplexing Anne Arundel Co. incident involving shattered police cruiser window 09/13/2021 01:22pm • Police in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, say there is no public safety threat as they continue to investigate a perplexing incident Monday that may have involved a police cruiser window being shot out as officers looked into the report of a teen "shooting small critters" in the woods. In an updat Data Doctors: Why 'tossing your cookies' is pointless 09/10/2021 04:01pm • Q: How does a digital fingerprinting differ from a cookie? A: The notion that you could be anonymous on the Internet was an attraction in the early days, but it’s quite obvious that those days are long gone. Virtually everything you do online is tracked and added to your "dossier" primarily Pandemic spikes tattoo business as clients yearn to mark the moment 09/08/2021 06:27pm • As more Americans resolve to change their lives after a tumultuous year and a half, many are choosing to get tattoos: D.C.-area tattoo-shop owners are reporting a boom in business, even though the pandemic all but shuttered other industries. Inside Lady Octopus, in Arlington, Virginia, artist Gil Glover Park Whole Foods first to get Just Walk Out pay 09/08/2021 06:12pm • Whole Foods owner Amazon is rolling out its cashier-less payment technology at its Whole Foods locations in D.C.'s Glover Park and Sherman Oaks, California. They are the first two Whole Foods stores to get the technology. The Glover Park Whole Foods closed more than four years ago and has remaine 'Like a freight train': Maryland tornado damages cars, buildings 09/01/2021 11:20pm • "You ever seen 'Wizard of Oz?'" It looked just like that, said David Joseph, describing the tornado that touched down in Annapolis, Maryland, on Wednesday afternoon. It sounded "like a freight train," Joseph and co-worker Brian McLaughlin said. They were trying to close the bay doors when they Tradition times 2 at annual Alexandria gift card give away 08/28/2021 07:00am • The pandemic might have altered the annual giveaway outside Alexandria's Alfred Street Baptist Church on Saturday, but it didn't stop it. (WTOP/John Domen) Even the COVID-19 pandemic couldn't stop an annual tradition put on by Alexandria, Virginia's Alfred Street Baptist Church. A line of car