Category Archives: Local News

By WMAL.comVirginia Attorney General Jason Mirayes is continuing to make waves in his relentless pursuit of reducing crime rates, locking up violent criminals and cracking down on liberal prosecutors ...

By WMAL.comOfficials from Fairfax County Public Schools signed a half-million-dollar contract using COVID relief funding with Tutor.com to help make up for learning that was lost due to the pandemic.P...

By WMAL.comMaryland Governor Larry Hogan revealed his plan to combat "out-of-control violent crime" in Baltimore with $45 million in initiatives to aid the city's crack down on violent criminals.Crime...

WOODBRIDGE, Va. (WMAL/AP) - A northern Virginia man has been arrested after firing a shotgun on school grounds when a domestic disturbance spilled over from a nearby home.Prince William County Police ...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin has tapped a former local elections official and ex-aide to a far-right-wing state senator to serve as Virginia's elections commissioner. The move s...

By WMAL.comThe Virginia Superintendent of Public Instruction, Jillian Balow's office is set to review charges of misconduct against Loudoun County Public Schools Superintendent School Scott Ziegler, b...

By WMAL.comVirginia Governor Glenn Youngkin cheered the state's Department of Labor and Industry's Worker Safety Board's vote to remove unnecessary COVID related restrictions in the workplace.The vote...

AITHERSBURG, Md. (AP) - A Maryland dentist has been charged with murder after a former patient with whom he had been in a relationship died of a drug overdose.Montgomery County Police say James Ryan w...

John MatthewsWMAL.comWASHINGTON – (WMAL)  Longtime Washington radio and podcast personality Andy Parks has died.  Parks, who spent decades at WMAL, before moving on to host a radio pro...

By Heather Curtis – WMAL.comLoudoun County Sheriff’s deputies shot and killed a woman who lunged at them with a knife early Friday morning, and a Frederick County Sheriff’s deputy sh...