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Prix fixe meets 'to-go': DC-area Restaurant Weeks carry on during coronavirus 08/13/2020 08:23am • D.C.'s official Summer Restaurant Week as well as separate promotional dining events in Alexandria and Fairfax City, are set to kick off starting later this month, and they are fully embracing the takeout trend. (Getty Images/iStockphoto/antova) Restaurant Week is a twice-a-year chance to sample Montgomery Co. closes virus testing sites in Silver Spring, White Oak for Thursday 08/13/2020 04:58am • Two coronavirus testing sites in Montgomery County will not be open on Thursday, August 13 due a reassessment of the testing process by the company that runs the program. The test sites at the Silver Spring Civic Building and the White Oak Community Recreation Center are closed Thursday. AdvaG 10 of the Best Blue-Chip Stocks to Buy for 2020 08/13/2020 12:00am • The best blue-chip stocks for 2020.When investors think of blue-chip stocks, they imagine tried-and-true, large companies with entrenched businesses. They picture robust cash flows, healthy financials and stocks they can own and still sleep well at night regardless of short-term gyrations. Generally COVID screener developed at George Mason helps with return to campuses across Virginia 08/12/2020 10:34pm • A locally-developed online COVID-19 screening program is helping college students get back to school across Virginia. The COVID Health Check tool was developed at George Mason University in March, at the onset of the pandemic. It has been refined since then and shared with universities across the Interested DC-area voters advised to request mail-in ballots sooner rather than later 08/12/2020 10:15pm • This Purcellville, Virginia, polling location in June took measures to prevent COVID-19 exposure with measures including social distancing, providing masks and working behind Plexiglas. (Courtesy Loudoun County Office of Elections) To vote in the November presidential election, everyone in the D Maryland to begin in-person early voting beginning Oct. 26 with additional voting centers 08/12/2020 08:26pm • The Maryland Board of Elections voted Wednesday to proceed with a plan to open around 80 voting centers for in-person early voting between Oct. 26 and Nov. 2 as a precaution against long lines on Election Day during a pandemic. The centers will be open daily from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m., and Marylanders Md. senators make 19 recommendations to protect prisoners from COVID-19 08/12/2020 11:35am • This content was republished with permission from WTOP’s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for Maryland Matters’ free email subscription today. The Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee’s Courts & Criminal Justice Workgroup published a report Tuesday with 19 recommendations to 5 DC summer camps canceled, leaving families confused 08/12/2020 09:00am • Dozens of kids eagerly anticipating a break from monotony through a D.C. summer sports camp were disappointed to learn last week that camp was canceled. As parents shuffle plans and seek refunds, they've been given no clear reason why D.C. denied at least five camps' waivers from public health re 7 of the Best 401(k) Funds for Millennials 08/12/2020 12:00am • Top retirement funds for millennials.There's an old saying that time is money. For millennials saving for retirement, time is on their side when it comes to making money with long-term investments in the stock market. Born in the early 80s through the mid-90s, this generation can weather market vola Pandemic is making opioid crisis worse, experts say 08/11/2020 08:33pm • As both national and D.C. area health departments deal with the COVID-19 pandemic, the opioid crisis that has devastated communities across the U.S. hasn't gone away. Brendan Saloner, associate professor in the Department of Health, Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of P Montgomery County offering more short-term rent assistance to tenants 08/11/2020 06:23pm • More help is on the way in Montgomery County, Maryland, for tenants who have fallen behind on their rent because of the coronavirus crisis. The county's COVID-19 Rental Assistance Program launched in June and made direct payments to landlords in July. Now, the program is back for a second round. Study: Vaping teens, young adults have substantially increased risk of COVID-19 08/11/2020 03:48pm • FILE - In this Oct. 4, 2019, file photo, a woman using an electronic cigarette exhales in Mayfield Heights, Ohio. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak, File) Teens and young adults who smoke and use e-cigarettes have a substantially increased risk of COVID-19, according to a study led by the Stanford University Federal lawsuit still pending on Montgomery Co. nonpublic schools reopening 08/11/2020 02:38pm • The federal case against Montgomery County Health Officer Dr. Travis Gayles' now-rescinded order for private schools to remain closed is still pending. Timothy Maloney, the attorney for private schools and families who sued the county, explained in a statement Monday on his law firm's website tha CDC team is at federal immigration facility to address virus 08/11/2020 08:53am • FARMVILLE, Va. — Virginia’s governor says that a team of federal scientists has arrived at an immigration detention center in Farmville to address the worst coronavirus outbreak at any such facility in the nation. The Washington Post reported that the 10-person team from the Centers for Disea DC bookstores find new ways to serve community amid pandemic and social upheaval 08/11/2020 04:18am • Anyone who has spent more than a passing moment inside a local bookstore knows each one carries a distinct personality. That personality is something of an amalgam of the owners, staff, customers and the books themselves. Spaces matter when it comes to the life of a local bookstore. So what th