The suspect in custody has been identified as Brian Cole, according to three people familiar with the matter. Two of the people said he lived in Woodbridge, Virginia, a suburb of Washington, D.C.
Maryland House of Delegates Speaker Adrienne Jones (D-Baltimore County), the first woman and the first Black legislator to hold the post, is stepping down after more than six years in the job.
A man has been arrested and charged in the killing of a 23-year-old father who was shot at MGM National Harbor Hotel and Casino in Oxon Hill, Maryland.
It can be nerve-wracking getting a phone call that says "you're in trouble," and scammers know it. The sheriff in Alexandria, Virginia says more and more people are unwittingly handing over their money to crooks.
The Prince William County School Board voted late Wednesday night to extend teacher contract hours an additional half hour per workday, a move made against the wishes of many educators in the county.
A massive water leak Wednesday afternoon forced Montgomery County officials to condemn a Safeway grocery store and a neighboring apartment building in Wheaton, displacing more than 1,000 residents.
On Thursday, the full cold supermoon occurs at 6:14 p.m. EST and will be particularly high in the sky. This is the third consecutive full supermoon and the last full moon for 2025.
According to Fairfax County documents, officials are projecting $225.5 million in new revenue, which isn’t expected to be enough to cover school system and county government spending.
The event was scheduled weeks before a brazen midday murder inside the food court of the MGM National Harbor Casino, but it was a top concern on the agenda.
On this week’s episode of “The Hunt with WTOP National Security Correspondent J.J. Green,” Dr. Hans Jakob-Schindler, senior director at the Counter Extremism Project, says this case carries the hallmarks of a terror plot.