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Md. lawmaker: Health contractors taking out loans as they wait for payments 02/21/2022 09:53pm • This content was republished with permission from WTOP’s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for Maryland Matters’ free email subscription today. The Maryland Department of Health has a backlog of unpaid invoices owed to contracted health care providers and grant recipients dating back 9 red flags that could trigger a tax audit 02/21/2022 07:50am • What is an IRS audit? The IRS may choose to review a taxpayer's accounts and financial information to ensure all tax laws are being followed. Even though the IRS only audited 0.3% of individual income tax returns in 2020, many taxpayers live in fear of a letter from the IRS questioning items on Metro's Twitter account hacked 02/21/2022 07:30am • If you were looking for information from Metro's Twitter account early Monday morning, you were met with posts that included expletives and memes that made it obvious the service's accounts were hijacked. The posts started around 3:30 a.m. and lasted about two hours before some posts became marke Md. twin brothers charged with stealing over $1 million in COVID relief, unemployment money 02/17/2022 09:59pm • Twin brothers from Prince George's County, Maryland, are accused in an identity theft scheme to collect a large amount of COVID-19 relief money. Jerry and Jaleel Phillips, of Temple Hills, both 24, made their initial appearances in U.S. District Court in Greenbelt Thursday. According to a news FEMA to deploy an expert to help with autopsy backlog, health department facing funding restriction 02/11/2022 01:01pm • This content was republished with permission from WTOP’s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for Maryland Matters’ free email subscription today. The Federal Emergency Management Agency confirmed Thursday that a Disaster Mortuary Operation Response Teams expert will be deployed to help School safety dominates parents' concerns before Montgomery County school board 02/08/2022 09:50pm • Last month's shooting at a Maryland high school prompted a number of comments from parents and one young student, who testified before the Montgomery County Board of Education on Tuesday. Annmarie Boyd, the parent of a Magruder High School student, told the board that her son "recently spent a ve Gansler taps former Hyattsville Mayor Candace Hollingsworth as running mate 02/08/2022 07:34am • Former Hyattsville Mayor Candace B. Hollingsworth (D) joins former Maryland Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler’s 2022 gubernatorial campaign. (Courtesy Gansler campaign) This content was republished with permission from WTOP’s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for Maryland Matters After Pentagon breach, 'Henny Penny' turns into international celebrity 02/04/2022 11:43pm • It has one of the tightest security teams in the United States. But on Wednesday, a short, auburn-colored suspect strutted onto the Pentagon Reservation in Arlington, Virginia, catching the police off guard. They were so surprised by the breach, they made a call for help. "The whole thing was Knitting school communities together: a donation from students to students 02/04/2022 10:27pm • Members of a club at Northwest High School in Germantown, Maryland, are making blankets to help warm up people. (Courtesy Samantha Fowler) They're just 7-x-9-inch squares of fiber, but when stitched together, they form a blanket. So, Samantha Fowler, a teacher at Northwest High School in Montgom Turkish Coffee Lady brings caffeine and culture to Old Town Alexandria 02/04/2022 08:00am • Coffee isn’t just about caffeine — it’s about culture, said Gizem Salcigil White, who has been working to introduce Americans to the ancient art of Turkish coffee for the last decade. Area residents can now get a taste of those efforts at her newly opened coffee house in Old Town Alexandria What public health experts want to see before easing mask mandates, other COVID-19 measures 02/03/2022 10:14pm • New case rates of COVID-19 are dropping from record highs fueled by the omicron variant, causing some to wonder when pandemic mitigation measures can begin lifting. However, experts from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health warn more time may be needed. When mask mandates for public sp Student charged after threatening on Instagram to blow up Charles Co. high school 02/03/2022 08:48am • A student has been charged with threatening to "blow up" a Charles County, Maryland, high school in early January. The Charles County Sheriff's Office said the 17-year-old student was behind posts from two separate Instagram accounts made Jan. 6 threatening an attack at Waldorf's St. Charles Hig Jan. 6 criminal prosecutions could extend into 2024 election 01/31/2022 12:22am • ▶ Watch Video: New information revealed through January 6 committee interviews It's been more than a year since the January 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, and still none of the defendants charged in the attack have gone on trial. Although a few are expected to start in the coming months, Did you know you can get help with COVID-related funeral expenses? Here's how 01/25/2022 07:41pm • The COVID-19 Funeral Assistance Fund has money to help cover costs of COVID-related funerals in the U.S. into the foreseeable future. And while COVID-19 has claimed nearly 865,000 lives in the U.S., only an estimated 300,000 families have filed for reimbursement, according to an advocate who beli Enhanced security, counseling services at Montgomery Co. high schools after shooting 01/25/2022 05:00am • Things will look differently on the first day of the second semester for students at Montgomery County, Maryland, high schools, following a shooting that left one student hurt and another in custody. The shooting last Friday at Magruder High School in Derwood sent the school into lockdown as law