
BALTIMORE (AP) Hundreds of people turned out at Baltimore's Inner Harbor to sing "Happy Birthday" to former Gov. William Donal Schaefer, who turned 88 today. Schaefer says he was amazed by the turnout for the dedication of a statue in his honor at harborside.
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) Maryland na...
Tamiflu is an anti-viral drug that treats symptoms of the flu and also can prevent onset of the illness. These days, with the ongoing swine flu outbreak, Tamiflu is hard to come by - especially in its liquid form, the kind given to children too young to swallow pills.
So in the back room of...
WASHINGTON (AP) Michelle Obama is launching a mentoring program for D.C. area high school girls seeking help from women at the White House. Thirteen girls joined the first lady and 18 White House staffers today to kick off the program, and a mentoring plan for boys is expected later.
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Halloween may be over but a new report has some folks seeing dead people -- on the nation's voter registration lists.
The annual non-partisan report by Aristotle International checks to see how many registered voters who have moved or died are still on the electoral rolls -- what election e...
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) Republican Bob McDonnell and Democrat Creigh Deeds are blitzing the state today in the final campaign push for Virginia governor. The two rivals planned several quick stops in cities around Virginia in the last hours leading up to Tuesday's balloting.
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) E...
Some within the local Autism community say the organization that's supposed to be leading the charge for Autism awareness and advocacy needs to make some changes of its own.
Ari Ne'eman is 21 years old, autistic, and sick of being portrayed as little more than a burden on society. That's ho...
Election Day is tomorrow, and voters in Virginia may see hand sanitizer and cotton swabs at the polls. It's part of an effort to prevent the spread of H1N1 swine flu.
Earlier this month, the federal Election Assistance Commission asked states to come up with plans to minimize the risk of in...
(October 30) AMERICAN CASINO A new film imagines Wall Street as a gambling hall in American Casino during a one-week run at the AFI Silver Theater and Cultural Center in Silver Spring, Maryland. Filmed throughout 2008, the movie critically examines the foreclosure crisis and stars insiders from...
Montgomery County Maryland Health officials are out of the H1N1 swine flu vaccine, for all but one group of people. That group is pregnant women. The county's health department is holding a special clinic this Wednesday -- by appointment only -- to distribute a limited number of the injectible fo...
On Election Day, Democrats are expected to maintain their dominance in Northern Virginia. But that doesn't mean they won't face opposition. One of those Republicans is Vicki Vasques, who is running against a two-term incumbent in the House of Delegates. Her opponent, David Englin, won with more t...
Voters in the D.C. suburb of Greenbelt Maryland will decide tomorrow, Tuesday November 3, whether to elect the first African American city council member in the community's 70-year history.
Greenbelt was a suburb built from scratch to provide affordable housing to federal workers. All the f...
The Chesapeake Bay and many of its species still face problems of pollution, overfishing, and ecological imbalance. Watermen who depend on the bay have been beleaguered by shrinking catches, and tighter control over fishing. Now oyster growers have discovered they have another challenge: an unwan...
Later this week, Maryland Senator Ben Cardin will hold a hearing on Capitol Hill on efforts to turn convicts back into citizens when they leave prison.
Montgomery County's pre-release center, located near the White Flint metro station, houses more than 150 convicts who are nearing the end o...
Jason Chaffetz is asking the federal government to prove it's not hiring convicted criminals to help conduct the upcoming Census. Utah's freshman Republican serves on the subcommittee that oversees the nationwide population count.
Elizabeth Wynne Johnson reports...
As Congress debates health care reform, interest groups, including insurance companies, are using their influence to make their voices heard.
As commentator Walter Smith notes, the debate has provided the District of Columbia an opportunity to compel the region's largest health insurer to r...
WASHINGTON (AP) Authorities say they are investigating a suspicious package at the World Bank headquarters.
D.C. fire department spokesman Pete Piringer says an unidentified substance was found in a letter or package in a mail room at about noon Monday. The building, located on H Street in...
Barbara Smith is in the basement of the Fairfax County Republican Party headquarters with a dozen other volunteers. She's calling complete strangers and asking them to vote for her candidate, gubernatorial hopeful Bob McDonnell.
This is an important election for Republicans in Fairfax. With...