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The National Sporting Library & Museum in Middleburg, Virginia, is hosting an evening with Josh Pons on January 15. A third-generation horseman and owner of Country Life Farm, he is also a two-time Eclipse Award-winning writer and the 2024 Dr. Tony Ryan Book Award winner. The focus of this event...

The Virginia State Police on Thursday released statewide crime numbers for 2024. The data shows crime in Loudoun County dropped last year compared to 2023, with shoplifting being the biggest problem. The crime rate, which is calculated as the number of crimes per 100,000 people, dropped in Leesburg from 5,956...

Country Herald is Local News, Independent Pulse. Covering breaking local news, sports, lifestyle and events. Fairfax County, VA – Families in Fairfax County can take advantage of a free child safety event this Saturday as the Fairfax County Sheriff’s Office hosts a Free Child ID Event during winter break....

MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Md. (7News) — Montgomery County Fire & Rescue Service's (MCFRS) fiscal management practices have come under scrutiny in a recent audit by the Office of the Inspector General (OIG). Inspector General Megan Davey Limarzi announced the release of the "Performance Audit of the Fiscal Management...

The Maryland Department of Agriculture announced Dec. 20, a presumptive positive case of H5 avian influenza in a commercial broiler farm in Queen Anne’s County. This is the second case of highly pathogenic H5 avian influenza (HPAI) on a commercial poultry farm in Queen Anne’s County this year and the 10th case in...

Detectives from the Montgomery County Department of Police – 4th District Investigative Section are asking for the public’s assistance in locating Yohannes Yeshitila Aytenfisu, a missing 25-year-old. Aytenfisu was last seen on December 21, 2025, leaving on foot around 2:15 p.m. in the area of the 2800 block...

For Venus Ricks, RN, owner, founder and director of nursing for Vital Sign Home Care, providing excellent care to older adults is not just a career — it’s a calling. Ricks was inspired to start Vital Sign after seeing her grandmother, who lived with dementia, treated “as a task, instead of a human being.”

Members of the Montgomery County Police Alcohol Holiday Task Force conducted enforcement operations from December 17 to 20, making 239 traffic stops and issuing hundreds of citations, warnings, and repair orders. During that period, task force officers arrested 22 people for DUI, made one additional criminal arrest,...

FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va. — Nearly three years after the murders of his wife and another man, Brendan Banfield, who is accused of killing them along with the family's au pair, will go to trial. The trial will begin Jan. 12, 2026. Cameras will be allowed in the courtroom, the...

This is nearly crunch time for Kriss Kringle, so you can imagine there are a lot of things he needs help with, especially answering the letters he receives from boys and girls from all over the world. Recently, WTOP became aware of a local man the North Pole commissioned to...