Category Archives: Local News

BALTIMORE (AP) - A Maryland man pleaded guilty in federal court Tuesday to threatening now-President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris before last year's election.The U.S. attorney's office a...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Proponents of statehood for Washington, D.C., vowed Tuesday to keep pushing even though the prospects were dim as the bill began working its way through the Senate."Our democracy is ...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - If a court clears the way, the state of Virginia expects to remove not just a soaring statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee from Richmond's historic Monument Avenue but also a ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Scott Brooks is out as coach of the Washington Wizards, according to a person with knowledge of the situation.The person spoke to The Associated Press Wednesday on condition of anony...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - Kyle Teel hit a grand slam in the seventh for Virginia's first lead and the Cavaliers clinched their fifth trip to the College World Series with a 5-2 victory over Dallas Baptist...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - An outside probe into how Virginia's government watchdog agency conducted an investigation of a controversial parole decision found no inappropriate political interference by Gov....

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - It's been nearly three decades since Virginia's only woman to win a statewide race held political office.That drought will end in November when voters decide whether Democratic De...

NORFOLK, Va. (AP) - A city engineer who fatally shot 12 people in a Virginia Beach municipal building in 2019 "was motivated by perceived workplace grievances" that "he fixated on for years," accordin...

FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) - The Virginia mansion where Robert E. Lee once lived that now overlooks Arlington National Cemetery is open to the public again, after a $12 million rehabilitation and reinterp...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - Author Wes Moore announced Monday he is running for governor of Maryland.Moore, a Democrat, focused his campaign announcement on addressing inequities in the state."Here in Maryl...