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Montgomery County aims to make in-person voting coronavirus-proof 10/07/2020 04:20pm • Officials in Montgomery County, Maryland, say they are ready for voters to cast their ballots in person and have rolled out a number of changes and coronavirus-related safety measures designed to keep them safe. "We've been preparing for this for months," said Dr. Earl Stoddard, director of the c Child abuse victims' data exposed in Montgomery Co. 10/03/2020 09:30am • Names, medical and biographical information from hundreds of children who fell victim to physical and sexual abuse were left unsecured on a file sharing platform in Montgomery County, Maryland, according to an inspector general's report. Following a tip it received last week, Montgomery County's How Election Day could turn into Election Week — or longer 10/02/2020 04:31am • This year's election could prove one of the most dizzying and drawn-out in at least a decade, with election experts and officials alike preparing the public for a slow grind. A flood of mail-in ballots, staffing shortages at polling places, rhetoric that acts to delegitimize the vote and the poss Audit faults MVA for suspicious addresses, ‘points’ not applied 09/30/2020 12:25am • 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 Motor Vehicle Administration issued drivers licenses to thousands of people who used questionable addresses as their place of IRS: More than 400,000 in DC, Md., Va. could be missing out on stimulus payments 09/28/2020 12:58pm • The Internal Revenue Service on Monday said up to 9 million people may have missed out on claiming $1,200 stimulus payments that have been made to Americans this year under the federal CARES Act, and more than 431,000 of them live in the District, Maryland or Virginia. Letters will go out this mo DC announces pilot plan to bring back live entertainment 09/25/2020 09:25pm • As part of its Phase Two entertainment plans, D.C. is going to allow live music at six venues in a pilot program. The city is inviting City Winery, GALA Hispanic Theatre, Pearl Street Warehouse, The Kennedy Center, The Hamilton and Union Stage to submit plans to participate. The new program al Presto's Picks: Virginia and Virginia Tech return, so does the SEC 09/25/2020 07:30am • The slow boil is complete, even though Maryland and the Big Ten won’t begin play for another month. And while the Pac 12 and Mountain West have both voted to return, college football's party is back in essence this weekend. And I'm not referring to Virginia and Virginia Tech after multiple fals Maryland courts go to full operation Oct. 5 09/24/2020 05:14am • This content was republished with permission from WTOP’s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for Maryland Matters’ free email subscription today. Maryland will begin jury trials on Oct. 5, ending a long wait for defendants who have been in jail or on home detention since March, when co Playing and praying: Montgomery County tweaks COVID-19 restrictions 09/22/2020 04:48pm • The Montgomery County Council approved tweaks to COVID-19 restrictions that relax some of the existing rules, to allow more people to pray at houses of worship and let kids play outdoor sports without masks in the Maryland county. "The new guidance we're getting today on religious institutions -- DC Council extends Bowser's coronavirus health emergency authority 09/22/2020 03:29pm • The D.C. Council on Tuesday extended Mayor Muriel Bowser's health emergency authority until the end of the year, more than six months after she first declared the emergency to deal with the coronavirus pandemic. The council's declaration, which passed unanimously, extends the mayor's authority un DC area joins nationwide trend of first-time gun ownership 09/22/2020 04:11am • Cedric Barnes, owner of Barnes 1st Step Firearms Training in Southeast D.C., teaches student Teia Hill how to control a gun’s recoil by adjusting her stance and grip. (WTOP/Matthew Delaney) The sounds of gunfire ringing through her Southeast D.C. neighborhood had always kept Neta Vaught away f DC launches $5 million child care relief fund, renews calls for contact-tracing cooperation 09/21/2020 01:47pm • D.C. will provide $5 million to child care facilities throughout the District as part of its pandemic relief efforts, the city said Monday. The D.C. Child Care Provider Relief Fund will provide emergency money to all licensed child care providers. “Expanding access to high-quality child care Trump supporters crowd line at Fairfax Co. polling site 09/20/2020 01:41pm • The line for an early in-person polling site in Fairfax, Virginia was temporarily crowded by supporters of President Donald Trump on Saturday afternoon. Anthony Tilghman, a journalist with the Washington Informer, told WTOP that he saw about 100 people sporting Make America Great Again apparel an 'Free to be Absentee' is new slogan in Virginia ahead of early voting 09/17/2020 11:53am • With absentee voting set to start Friday in Virginia, the state's elections department launched an awareness campaign called "Free to be Absentee," meant to help voters understand the process of casting a ballot early. "We are excited about our new campaign and committed to ensuring that all elig Hackers attack Fairfax County school system with ransomware 09/11/2020 11:18pm • Virginia's largest school system is investigating an alleged cyber attack on its technology systems. Fairfax County Public Schools said that it recently learned that ransomware was placed on some of its technology systems. Ransomware essentially holds a target computer or computer system hostage