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They knew they were doing something wrong. They did it anyway. Two jokers were caught on camera breaking into a historic Maryland church in a bizarre midday burglary in Montgomery County last month. In the video outside the Bethesda Meeting House, the pair acknowledged the surveillance camera watchin…

Indivisible Do Something Alexandria is hosting both events. Sunday's coincides with the first day of weekend early voting in the city.

A woman was shot in the shoulder around 2:20 p.m. Sunday while driving on the outer loop of Interstate 495 near Branch Avenue in Prince George's County, and police are treating it as a road-rage attack. She was taken to a hospital with injuries described as not life-threatening. According to...

On the evening of Saturday, Oct. 17, onlookers on lower King Street might feel like they’ve been transported into a Michael Jackson music video. Coldwell Banker Realty real estate agents Barb Scheeler and Rachel Knapp are coordinating a “Thriller” Zombie Flash Mob in the unit block of King Street in Old Town, at 5 p.m. Saturday. Scheeler and Knapp told ALXnow there are about 100 dancers signed up to participate, and hundreds of spectators are expected to attend with the dancers.

A Tucson man faces federal charges after emailing bomb threats targeting the White House and Washington D.C. sites to a local news station in September.

Four employers have told Virginia they will cut 785 jobs between mid-November and early December. Two of them are closing sites, Owens & Minor in Toano and Bechtel Power in Reston, and two are laying off workers, Leidos in Ashburn and ICF International in Arlington. The last of the four takes effect on December 7.... The post Four Virginia closures will cut 785 jobs by December 7 appeared first on The Financial Wire .

The Great American Beer Festival Award Winners were announced on Sunday, October 11, 2026. The premier U.S. beer competition crowned the finest beverages in over 100 beer and cider styles. Congratulations to the eleven Virginia based breweries who took home awards including small brewery/brewer of the year…. American Fruit Beer...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Columbus Day means a day off for many, with changes to schools, mail, transit and trash pickup for the federal holiday. Federal offices, post offices and most banks are closed Monday, though ATMs, debit cards and digital banking remain available. Since the holiday can delay direct deposits and ACH bill payments by one business day, you may want to plan around any payments due.

Students face pressure to do well from family expectations, peer competition, college admissions, and a broader achievement-focused culture. Some Virginia education experts say it is leading them to rely on artificial intelligence, at the expense of strengthening their own creative and critical thinking skills. “They want to do well, and so they tend to turn […]

A new mural in Mount Rainier honors Muhammad Ali. Over the summer, Washington, D.C. artist Jay F. Coleman painted a mural of the side of the Pizza D’Oro building at 4000 34th St., across the street from the Glut Food Co-Op. Coleman said that his goal was to “focus...