From the Maryland Reporter website:

SCHOOL CONSTRUCTION Gov. O'Malley pledged to spend an additional $1 billion for school construction, repeating a campaign promise he made and kept four years ago, Annie Linskey of the Sun writes. John Rydell of WBFF-TV reports that the announcement sparks...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) The state medical examiner's office says a University of Virginia women's lacrosse player was killed by blunt force injury to her head. Yeardley Love's death also has been officially ruled a homicide.

ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) Pentagon officials are reviewing planned cha...

By Matt Bush

Maryland governor Martin O'Malley is outlining his plan for public school construction in the state should he be re-elected this fall. O'Malley's plan should he receive a second term looks much like what happened during his first. He wants to fulfill spending goals on school co...

WASHINGTON (AP) As temperatures hover around triple digits in the D.C. area, some Metrorail riders are complaining about sweaty commutes on cars with air conditioning problems.

Metro General Manager Richard Sarles says the transit agency is facing challenges with air conditioning on trains....

WASHINGTON (AP) Just call it NPR. National Public Radio has asked its staff to use just its initials.

The Washington-based news organization says over the last several years it has been making the change, but it says it has now formally asked its staffers not to use the longer name on air....

By Jonathan Wilson

In Virginia, the Fairfax County Public School Board is expected to vote Thursday night on whether to close the elementary school in the small town of Clifton.

It's an issue that seems to have split the board, but one at-large member thinks she has a win-win solution...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) Starting July 20, Amtrak is adding a daily round-trip service between Richmond and Washington.

That means a total of five trains will depart Richmond daily for Washington, with six return departures in the afternoon and evening.

The new service is sponsored by the s...

By Rebecca Sheir

A day after a broken pipe spewed water nearly 70 feet above a neighborhood in Potomac, Maryland, work to repair the water main continues.

Restrictions on water use are expected to be in place through the end of the week.

Phyllis Marcuccio, the mayor of Rockville...

Today the 2nd annual Cybersecurity Symposium kicks off with a clip from last February's "Cyber Shockwave" simulation exercise - in which real-life officials engaged in an elaborately-produced 'what-if.' And the results played out before a national audience.

Elizabeth Wynne Johnson reports.....

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently admitted to the Washington Post that the agency’s 2004 study about lead in the District of Columbia’s water a few years ago contained inaccurate conclusions.

Commentator Yanna Lambrinidou argues that it’s time for the CDC to recall the...

By Matt Bush

In Maryland, the finishing touches are being put on a new addition to downtown Silver Spring. Benches and a massive glass canopy dot the new public square at the corner of Fenton Street and Ellsworth Drive.

A public square can be anything, according to Reemberto Rodriguez...

WASHINGTON (AP) The chairman of the D.C. council didn't pay a traffic ticket for more than seven years, and only sought to pay after he launched his campaign for mayor.

The Washington Post reports that Vincent Gray got the ticket in Maryland in 2002. Campaign spokeswoman Traci Hughes told t...

Yahyah Wehelie is a 26-year-old American citizen, born and raised in Fairfax, Virginia. A year and a half ago he went to Yemen to study.

On May 4th on his way home, while he was trying to make a connecting flight in Egypt, he was stopped by authorities. And he's been there ever since.

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) Starting July 20, Amtrak is adding a daily round-trip service between Richmond and Washington.

That means a total of five trains will depart Richmond daily for Washington, with six return departures in the afternoon and evening.

The new service is sponsored by the s...

CUMBERLAND, Md. (AP) A 17-year-old boy who escaped from the Green Ridge Youth Center in western Maryland has been arrested near Gaithersburg.

Maryland State Police arrested Edwin Cortez on Wednesday without incident at his girlfriend's house in Montgomery County. He reportedly fled Sunday i...

By David Schultz

People in Rockville, Maryland are being told not to use water outdoors, and to limit how much they use indoors, following a water main break yesterday evening that shot water high into the air above the intersection of South Glen Road and Deep Glen Drive. While crews tried...

(July 9-17) THE NINA VARIATIONS The vicissitudes of a doomed relationship are wrung dry in The Nina Variations, aptly staged in The Bedroom at Fort Fringe tomorrow night through July 17. Nina and Treplev revisit their relationship over the course of several short scenes in the half-homage, half-d...

By Meymo Lyons

Maryland's highest court has agreed to hear an appeal of a lower court's ruling that stopped a public vote on whether a casino should be allowed near a shopping mall.

The Baltimore-based Cordish Co. wants to build the casino near Arundel Mills Mall in Anne Arundel Count...

WASHINGTON (AP) As temperatures hover around triple digits in the D.C. area, some Metrorail riders are complaining about sweaty commutes on cars with air conditioning problems. Metro General Manager Richard Sarles says the transit agency is facing challenges with air conditioning on trains.

By Natalie Neumann

Air conditioning repair technicians are working overtime to help people beat the heat, and letting people know some things you can do to prevent a visit.

Jason Welch works as a technician for Thomas E. Clark, a plumbing, heating and A/C company in Silver Spring, Mar...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) Virginia's attorney general is critical of the federal government's legal challenge of Arizona's new immigration.

Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli said Thursday the legal challenge is hypocritical in view of the position the government has taken in its bid to dismiss Virgi...

CUMBERLAND, Md. (AP) A 17-year-old boy who escaped from the Green Ridge Youth Center in western Maryland has been arrested near Gaithersburg.

Maryland State Police arrested Edwin Cortez on Wednesday without incident at his girlfriend's house in Montgomery County. He reportedly fled Sunday i...

By David Schultz

Construction workers building the extension of Metro out to Dulles Airport have been sent home early the past two days due to extreme heat.

By mid-afternoon, most workers are gone from the Dulles Metrorail project's construction site in Northern Virginia, although a f...

WASHINGTON (AP) The first red panda cub born at the National Zoo in Washington in 15 years has died.

The 21-day-old male cub was found dead Wednesday. He was the first cub born to red pandas Shama and Tate.

The cause of death was not immediately known.

The zoo says animal keeper...

From the Maryland Reporter website:

SCHOOL CONSTRUCTION Gov. O'Malley pledged to spend an additional $1 billion for school construction, repeating a campaign promise he made and kept four years ago, Annie Linskey of the Sun writes. John Rydell of WBFF-TV reports that the announcement sparks...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) A former aide to state Sen. Andrew Harris is formally in the race for a House of Delegates seat in a legislative district that includes parts of Baltimore and Harford counties. Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller told Harris that Kathy Szeliga should resign her position bec...