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DC, Md. extend traffic closures in parkways for recreational use 04/13/2020 07:50pm • D.C. is extending the closure of a section of Beach Drive to vehicle traffic, and Montgomery County, Maryland, is opening up parkways on weekends for recreational use. D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser and the National Park Service announced Saturday that a section of Beach Drive in Rock Creek Park will b When will Congress come back? Not until May, at earliest 04/13/2020 06:20pm • FILE — In this March 27, 2020, file photo, members of the House of Representatives walk down the steps of Capitol Hill in Washington, after passing a coronavirus rescue package. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File) Members of Congress, like many Americans, are working from home as they try to tackle m Northern Va. hospitals could be overwhelmed by late summer, latest state models project 04/13/2020 02:35pm • FILE — Inova Fairfax Hospital Center in Falls Church, Virginia, is seen in this file photo Tuesday, March 31, 2015. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen) Stay-home orders and social distancing measures appear to be working to slow the spread of the new coronavirus in Virginia, but models like one from the Uni Glen Echo Park historic carousel, and park aquarium vandalized 04/13/2020 11:51am • The colorful and whimsical Dentzel carousel has been at the center of Maryland's Glen Echo Park for 99 years — and has just been vandalized. And U.S. Park Police officers are investigating reports of vandalism at the park's aquarium. Since 1971, the former amusement park has been an arts and Proposed coronavirus tracking program asks Congress for $3.6B to hire workers 04/13/2020 06:27am • A new Johns Hopkins proposal aims at putting an aggressive contact tracing program in place to help isolate the sick as well as those who have been exposed to the coronavirus. "It's a way of getting ahead of the virus rather than always chasing it from behind," said Anita Cicero, deputy director DC’s first coronavirus patient reflects during virtual Easter service 04/13/2020 06:02am • Timothy Cole, the leader of the historic Christ Church in Georgetown joins "CBS Evening News" to discuss being the first person who tested positive for coronavirus in Washington D.C. (CBS News) The first person to get the novel coronavirus in D.C. used a virtual Easter service to reflect on what Virginia-based Smithfield closes South Dakota pork plant due to coronavirus 04/12/2020 05:35pm • SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Virginia-based Smithfield Foods announced Sunday that it is closing its pork processing plant in Sioux Falls until further notice after hundreds of employees tested positive for the coronavirus — a step the head of the company warned could hurt the nation's meat supply. Fears of 'Wild West' as COVID-19 blood tests hit the market 04/12/2020 02:06pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Blood tests for the coronavirus could play a key role in deciding whether millions of Americans can safely return to work and school. But public health officials warn that the current “Wild West” of unregulated tests is creating confusion that could ultimately slow the path t Workplace safety regulators field virus-related complaints 04/12/2020 12:48pm • RICHMOND, Va. — State regulators have received more than 150 complaints about insufficient precautions being taken against coronavirus at Virginia workplaces. The Roanoke Times reports the Department of Labor and Industry has contacted the employer in most of the 165 complaints received as of T Coronavirus update: Bowser, Hogan say no 'artificial deadline' on lifting restrictions 04/12/2020 11:48am • St. Anne's Episcopal Church is seen in the distance from Main Street in Annapolis, Md., Tuesday, March 31, 2020. Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan issued a "stay-at-home" directive Monday in response to the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) The latest D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser and Maryland Pope celebrates joy of Easter amid sorrow of virus pandemic 04/12/2020 06:37am • VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis and Christians around the world marked a solitary Easter Sunday, forced to celebrate the most joyful day in the liturgical calendar amid the sorrowful reminders of the devastation wrought by the coronavirus pandemic. Families who normally would attend morning Ma Black Americans are being hammered by a double pandemic 04/12/2020 05:00am • It started off as a strange-sounding disease that only other folks were getting. But then it hit black people with a sudden ferocity. Many of the victims died alone, separated from family. Hospital workers were bewildered. The virus was unstoppable. That's what Pernes Coronavirus update: Dozens more dead in DC region, PG Co. requiring residents to wear face masks in stores 04/11/2020 07:41pm • The latest The D.C. Department of Corrections confirmed four more cases of COVID-19 among people incarcerated in D.C. jails Thirty-five people died of the coronavirus in Maryland on Friday, health officials said, bringing the state’s death toll to 206 — with Prince George’s County, Mon University of Maryland lab supplies donated to local hospitals 04/11/2020 07:34pm • Two PhD students in the bioengineering program at the University of Maryland have started collecting items from labs while the university is closed to donate to local hospitals. Two University of Maryland students noticed that there were a lot of useful items in local labs that could be used for Md. appeals court won't release juveniles, says coronavirus order due 'shortly' 04/11/2020 12:50pm • Maryland's highest court has rejected a request to release some non-violent juvenile offenders, whose lawyers say are at increased risk of contracting coronavirus. The order says the chief judge reviewing the request in Maryland's Court of Appeals will issue guidance "shortly" to address the COVI