Category Archives: WMAL News Now

WASHINGTON (WMAL) — A regular at a D.C. restaurant left staff with a shock, and a $2,000 tip.The anonymous guest visited Blue 44 on Memorial Day because the executive chef James Turner had plann...

TEHRAN (CNN) — Iran’s trial of Washington Post correspondent Jason Rezaian began in Tehran on Tuesday under a cloak of secrecy and international condemnation.Rezaian’s mother Mary an...

Alex BeallWMAL.comSTERLING (WMAL) — A Virginia agency is investigating last Thursday’s rock blast in Sterling, which originated in a quarry. The fly rock from the blast injured one person ...

SHANGHAI — (CNN) Wealthy Chinese are getting even richer really fast.A new billionaire was created almost every week in China in the first quarter of 2015, according to a report by UBS and Price...

BAGHDAD — (CNN) Iraq forces have launched a major military operation to liberate Iraq’s Anbar and Salaheddin provinces from ISIS, Iraqi state media and a key Shia militia group said Tuesda...

John MatthewsWMAL.comSILVER SPRING — (WMAL) Score one for “Free-Range Parenting.”A Silver Spring couple under watch for possible child neglect because their children were allowed to ...

AUSTIN, TX — (CNN) Deluge.That’s the best way to describe the nightmare Houston residents coped with Tuesday, after over 11 inches of rain fell in some spots overnight and into the next da...

LAS VEGAS — (CNN) Two of B.B. King’s daughters are alleging that the blues legend was poisoned to death by his closest associates. But the coroner says preliminary autopsy results don̵...

Washington (CNN) — Law enforcement scrambled on a busy long weekend travel day to ensure airplanes were secure after at least 10 threats were phoned in threatening flights. The first sign of tro...

FORT LAUDERDALE (CNN) — Three children were injured on Monday when a waterspout came onshore and lifted the inflatable bounce house they were in, authorities said. The house was swept across a p...