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For years, thousands of Marylanders facing serious health battles have dealt with a frustrating "middleman" between them and their medication: their insurance company. Under a practice known as Step Therapy—or more bluntly, "Fail-First"—insurers could legally require patients to try (and fail on) cheaper, alternative...

The Maryland Public Service Commission (PSC) denied nearly $75.1 million of BGE's $152.3 million request to support the final year of its rate increase plan.

PENNSYLVANIA — A developing winter weather system is drawing close attention across the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic United States, as forecast data points to a more amplified clipper system capable of producing accumulating snow, sleet, and pockets of ice from Friday into early Saturday, December 26–27. While a weaker...

ANNAPOLIS -- The Comptroller of Maryland has announced changes are coming in 2026 to the regulations governing Maryland's tire recycling fee and new tire fee .   Effective Jan. 1, ...

Officers responded before 9:30 a.m. on Tuesday. Dec. 23, to the intersection of Fairfax County Parkway and Old Plains Road in Navy, where a man was lying in the median, according to the Fairfax County Police Department. The man was pronounced dead at the scene by first responders. As of...

(WBFF) — Maryland is grappling with a $1.4 billion budget deficit, and state auditors have uncovered an additional financial challenge. A year-end report from Maryland's Office of Legislative Audits revealed that eight state agencies have billions in federal funds that were not properly recorded. In some instances,...

WASHINGTON - D.C. police are continuing to search for two suspects accused of robbing a cellphone store in Northeast D.C. last week. According to investigators, two armed suspects went into a T-Mobile store in the 800 block of H Street, Northeast, just before 8 p.m. on Thursday, December 18. Police...

D.C.’s new acting chief of police takes over the department at a tumultuous time for the city with a police force facing a range of challenges. Acting Chief Jeff Carroll has been No. 2 at the Metropolitan Police Department since Pamela Smith became chief in 2023. Last week, Mayor Muriel Bowser said Carroll was her...

The D.C. area was hit the hardest by federal layoffs and that greatly impacted the amount of people turning to nonprofits for help. But those nonprofits themselves saw major cuts to the amount of federal funding they received, with some seeing all of it disappear. Laura Tomasko, senior policy program...

WASHINGTON (7News) — A 23-year-old man was shot and killed in Southeast D.C. on Sunday, according to the Metropolitan Police Department. It happened around 6:03 a.m. in the 2300 block of Pennsylvania Avenue SE. Officers found a man, identified as Dennis Ziegler, with a gunshot wound. He was unconscious and not...