By Jonathan Wilson

The abortion-rights group NARAL Pro-Choice Virginia says the majority of Crisis Pregnancy Centers across the state give clients inaccurate medical information.

NARAL Pro-Choice Virginia conducted a year-long investigation into the 52 Crisis Pregnancy Centers, non-pr...

By Elliott Francis

Maryland's fiscal year 2011 budget contains a number of measures designed to reverse a $2 billion budget gap. Funding for the Chesapeake Bay is not among them.

The $13.2 billion operating budget includes a $20 million trust fund for Chesapeake Bay restoration.

From the Maryland Reporter website

Gov. Martin O'Malley unveiled his proposed budget to reporters Tuesday. It includes layoffs and furlough days but no new taxes. He relies on accounting maneuvers in his proposed budget, reports Annie Linskey of The Baltimore Sun. Heather Harlan Warnack has...

By Kavitha Cardoza

Stephanie Day has been named the "D.C. Teacher of the Year." She uses innovative methods to motivate her special education students.

At Friendship Chamberlain Elementary Public Charter School, Day's 7-year-old students all have different reasons for why their teache...

By Kavitha Cardoza

In addition to the approximately four billion dollars already available, for a federal education grant program "Race To The Top," President Obama is asking Congress for an additional one billion. And D.C., Maryland and Virginia, are all interested in the money.

Tess...

By Jonathan Wilson

The abortion-rights group NARAL Pro-Choice Virginia says the majority of Crisis Pregnancy Centers across the state give clients inaccurate medical information.

NARAL Pro-Choice Virginia conducted a year-long investigation into the 52 Crisis Pregnancy Centers, non-pr...

By Rebecca Blatt

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is trying to make it easier for Haitian orphans being adopted by Americans to enter the United States. For one family from Frederick, Maryland, the policy change may signal the end of an emotional roller coaster.

David Hubner a...

By Rebecca Blatt

Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell says the Commonwealth will reopen 19 highway rest stops that were closed last year as a cost-cutting measure.

McDonnell says the rest stop closures presented the image of a Virginia "closed for business," and he says that was not only b...

BALTIMORE (AP) Doctors aboard the USNS Comfort have begun treating their first patients injured in last week's earthquake in Haiti. The nearly 900-foot floating hospital is expected to arrive near Port-au-Prince by mid-morning, but the ship was close enough last night to take aboard its first pat...

By Bill Redlin

A 20-year-old man from Bethesda will be spending more than five years in federal prison for possessing bomb-making chemicals.

Collin McKenzie-Gude pleaded guilty to the charge in September. But prosecutors say the young man had planned to kill President Barack Obama. A...

By Meymo Lyons

The group D.C. Vote has mailed President Barack Obama about 200 pounds worth of petitions asking for a vote for district residents in Congress.

The group, along with D.C. Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton, sent 12 boxes containing some 41,000 petitions on Wednesday. T...

By Jonathan Wilson

Part of the budget proposal left behind by former Governor Tim Kaine has county leaders in Northern Virginia outraged.

To save money, Kaine has proposed freezing something called the L.C.I. or Local Composite Index. The formula determines how much funding school dis...

The USNS Comfort is one of two gigantic navy hospital ships. Itâ??s arriving in Haiti some time today. The ship is enormous, and the logistics of getting it moving in so little time are complicated to say the least. Sabri Ben-Achour brings us this look from onboard...

By Elliott Francis

Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley says he can close next year's $2 billion budget gap with fewer layoffs than expected.

To help eliminate that gap, O'Malley says he'll delay certain capital projects, and add a 3 percent tuition hike for state universities. In addition,...

BALTIMORE (AP) Doctors aboard the USNS Comfort have begun treating their first patients injured in last week's earthquake in Haiti.

The nearly 900-foot floating hospital dropped anchor off the coast of Port-au-Prince on Wednesday morning, but the ship was close enough Tuesday night to take...

By Meymo Lyons

A veteran Virginia legislator is proposing bills to decriminalize small amounts of marijuana and to make it available for limited medical purposes.

But Del. Harvey B. Morgan of Gloucester told a news conference the prospects of passage are not very good. He has no co-sp...

As neighboring counties deal with the prospect of more painful budget cuts, leaders in Prince William County say things don't look quite as bad from where they're sitting.

Board Chair Corey Stewart says he feels relatively good about the county's financial situation right now and proudly po...

By Greg Peppers

Thousands of Haitians are leaving the capital Port Au Prince for the surrounding countryside. A fire fighter from Prince William County, Virginia who witnessed the exodus first hand.

Chris Granger was in Haiti four days after the massive earthquake struck. Granger was...

By Elliott Francis

Maryland's fiscal year 2011 budget contains a number of measures designed to reverse a $2 billion budget gap. Funding for the Chesapeake Bay is not among them.

The $13.2 billion operating budget includes a $20 million trust fund for Chesapeake Bay restoration.