State Employees Offered $20,000 As Part Of Buyout Aimed At Cutting Payrolls
Thousands of state employees were notified by email Thursday of a buyout program, part of a plan by Gov. Wes Moore (D) to reduce the size of state government and cut $121 million from ongoing personnel expenses. Details of the “voluntary separation program” were also posted on the website of...
Teen drowns in the Potomac River near Dumfries
A 17-year-old Prince William County teen apparently drowned Sunday while swimming in the Potomac River near Possum Point. The call came in about 3 p.m., reporting the boy went under near the shore off Cockpit Point Road in the Dumfries area. Fire and rescue boats and police divers searched for several hours before...
Stop vilifying kids: Maryland’s juvenile justice debate needs facts, not fear
Juvenile justice reform was working in Maryland, write Gladys Carrion and David Muhammad, which is why the recent push for more punitive treatment of young offenders is distressing as well as counter-productive.
Baby Beaver Found Alone in Field Surprises Rescuers with a Grateful Smile
DD Animal News: 13 July, 2025: In the heart of Virginia, a small life clung to hope. A young beaver, barely old enough to fend for herself, was found alone ... Read more The post Baby Beaver Found Alone in Field Surprises Rescuers with a Grateful Smile appeared first on Doggodigest .
DC man killed in Oxon Hill hit-and-run identified
Police identified the pedestrian who was killed in a hit-and-run in Oxon Hill last week as 45-year-old Earl Parker Jr.
Man wanted for armed robbery at Rockville liquor store
ROCKVILLE, Md. (7News) — The Montgomery County Police Department (MCPD) is working to identify and locate a man involved in an armed robbery at a liquor store in Rockville, Maryland. On July 1, the suspect entered the liquor store on North Washington Street and demanded that the cashier give...
Curfew keeps kids out of Navy Yard on weekend one as police report no...
WASHINGTON (7News) — The results are in from the weekend's first juvenile curfew zone in Navy Yard. Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) officials told 7News that there were no violations of the extended curfew in the first two days of enforcement. The new rules took effect on Friday, July 11,...
Nothern Virginia is ‘at a critical crossroads,’ which means rural Virginia is, too
An office complex in Fairfax County recently changed hands, and taxpayers across rural Virginia ought to be alarmed. Why should we care who owns Tysons International Plaza? We don’t. We should, though, care about what the new owners paid for it: 60% less than the previous owners had bought it for just eight years ago.
Relisha Rudd: A Decade Later, the Search for Truth and Justice Continues
On the morning of March 1, 2014, 8-year-old Relisha Tenau Rudd vanished from the D.C. General Family Shelter in Southeast Washington, D.C. Her disappearance would become one of the most haunting missing child cases in the history of the nation’s capital—exposing systemic failures in child welfare, homelessness...
DC police enforce expanded juvenile curfew in Navy Yard
WASHINGTON - A new juvenile curfew zone took effect over the weekend in the Navy Yard neighborhood, marking the city’s first targeted curfew expansion in response to ongoing safety concerns. The extended curfew, in place July 11–13, supplemented the citywide summer curfew already in effect across the District. FOX...
