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Frontline Heroes: DC lawyer dons scrubs in pandemic response 05/01/2020 01:02pm • EDITOR’S NOTE: During the coronavirus pandemic, there are people throughout the community working on the front lines. WTOP is honoring essential personnel through its Frontline Heroes campaign. Each day, WTOP chooses two nominees, awards each $100 and donates another $100 to Feed the Fight DC, a Fall festival canceled in Virginia due to virus concerns 05/01/2020 06:17am • FERRUM, Va. — A fall festival in Virginia has been canceled due to virus safety concerns amid the coronavirus pandemic. Organizers for the 47th annual Blue Ridge Folklife Festival said Thursday on Facebook the October festival in Ferrum has been rescheduled for next year. Organizers say they Coronavirus makes for a strange start to Md.'s rockfish season 05/01/2020 03:56am • Maryland's rockfish season on the Chesapeake Bay starts Friday, and it won't look or feel like any previous fishing season because of changes brought on by the coronavirus pandemic. "We take health first and foremost for not only our crew but also our customers," said Rich Schott, owner of Chesap COVID-19 survivors might be able to help other patients who are still seriously sick 04/30/2020 10:16pm • Researchers want plasma donations from people who've recovered from COVID-19 in the hope that it might help others still seriously ill with the disease. The convalescent plasma therapy project is being sponsored nationwide by the Mayo Clinic. It's currently underway in the D.C. area at MedStar He Domestic violence cases spike in Montgomery County after safety campaign 04/30/2020 09:56pm • Montgomery County, Maryland, is experiencing an increase not only in the number of domestic violence cases but also in their severity since the COVID-19 stay-at-home order went into effect in March. Concerned victims may not know support resources remain open, so the county launched an informatio PHOTOS: 'Washington Alone' documents DC sites during the pandemic 04/30/2020 09:55pm • Those who live in the D.C. area would normally avoid the monuments on a sunny day during tourist season. But with stay-at-home orders and social distancing in place due to the coronavirus, one D.C. man took the opportunity to capture the iconic sites of the nation’s capital, which have taken o Another 119K new unemployment claims in DC, Maryland and Virginia 04/30/2020 10:36am • First time unemployment claims in D.C., Maryland and Virginia totaled 118,672 last week (Getty Images/iStockphoto/glegorly) The number of first-time claims for unemployment benefits nationally for the week ending April 25 totaled nearly 3.84 million, down for the fifth consecutive week, but it b Pandemic prompts halt to massive Baltimore building project 04/30/2020 09:09am • BALTIMORE — A developer has suspended a massive construction project in Baltimore to protect workers during the coronavirus pandemic. The Baltimore Sun reported Thursday that the Port Covington project on the city’s waterfront was in its first phase of construction. Plans include more than Johns Hopkins gets $200K in federal funding for COVID-19 tracker 04/30/2020 07:50am • Johns Hopkins University's global COVID-19 tracker, which has served as a valuable tool for tracking the coronavirus since the map was publicly released in January, is getting a $200,000 injection of federal funding. Sens. Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen, and Reps. Dutch Ruppersberger and John P. 'Soap For Hope' drive raises money for local families who lost their jobs 04/30/2020 03:41am • After a Fairfax County, Virginia, teacher found out almost a quarter of his students had a parent who lost a job because of the pandemic, he and his class launched a unique project to help them. David Kelly and his eighth-grade science students at Lake Braddock Secondary School in Burke started a Maryland Gov. Hogan orders 'universal' coronavirus testing at all nursing homes 04/30/2020 01:58am • Gov. Larry Hogan issued an executive order Wednesday requiring that all residents and staff members at Maryland nursing homes be tested for the coronavirus, regardless of whether they show symptoms. The governor is also putting a National Guard official in charge of enforcing safety rules at long Rob Riggle is comedic Indiana Jones in Discovery Channel's 'Global Investigator' 04/30/2020 12:16am • Rob Riggle speaks at the Discovery Channel's "Rob Riggle: Global Investigator" during the Discovery Network TCA 2020 Winter Press Tour at the Langham Huntington on Thursday, Jan. 16, 2020, in Pasadena, Calif. (Photo by Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP) You know him from his bits on "Fox NFL Sunday, Seeking health care equity, DC will build 2 new hospitals 04/29/2020 11:45pm • D.C. announced two new hospitals will be built in the city that would address issues of health care equity among its residents. Mayor Muriel Bowser said the hospitals will be in Wards 1 and 8. “While D.C. continues to battle this pandemic, our team has remained committed to delivering hope a Lost at sea: Cruise ship entertainer from Md. stuck on board for weeks in Florida 04/29/2020 09:29pm • Weeks after arriving for what they thought would be a normal cruise, crew members on some luxury ships are still unable to disembark, even though everyone on board appears healthy. A crew member from Maryland shared what it is like on board. Emily "Ezra" Freeman loves her job as a guest entert 'It's taken a toll on a lot of us': Md. ICU nurse on the COVID-19 front lines 04/29/2020 07:46pm • As the nurse manager in the intensive care unit at Shady Grove Medical Center, Nimeet Kapoor is used to spending a lot of hours tending to patients with a lot of infectious diseases. But the illness and the deaths brought on by COVID-19, he told WTOP, are something else. He said it means 10- to 1