Cory Smith

Charlotte Woodward and Madison Essig are just the fifth and sixth students born with Down syndrome to earn a bachelor’s degree in the United States.

Outside the Glassmanor Community Center in Oxon Hill, Maryland, sits an oasis in the middle of a five-mile food desert.  A Feed the Fridge community refrigerator feeds the needs of hungry Prince George’s County residents. The fridge is the second to open in the county and is among 10 installed in the D.C. area.  It’s stocked every day with ready-to-eat…

A man was fatally shot on 14th Street NW in D.C.’s Columbia Heights neighborhood overnight Friday, police say. Surveillance video shows the man walking down the sidewalk as two people dressed in dark clothes cross the street and begin to chase him. Then, the pair run after the victim across 14th Street. Just before a Metrobus pulls up to the intersection…

A new law in Maryland allows the state to expand its pool of abortion providers this summer, but money for the training they need won’t come for more than a year. In April, Maryland lawmakers passed the Abortion Care Access Act and voted to override Gov. Larry Hogan’s veto. The measure says physician assistants, nurse practitioners and midwives can perform…

A new law in Maryland allows the state to expand its pool of abortion providers this summer, but money for the training they need won’t come for more than a year. In April, Maryland lawmakers passed the Abortion Care Access Act and voted to override Gov. Larry Hogan’s veto. The measure says physicia…

Manassas National Battlefield Park’s nearly 5,000 acres offer visitors a glimpse into America’s Civil War past, but with each passing year, signs of America’s future draw closer. “We can look this way; we can see the 21st century,” Manassas Battlefield Trust President Joseph Eaves said. “When we look back here and all we see is trees and nature and so we want…

The deaths of two Northern Virginia teenagers have led to an urgent warning from the Prince William County Police Department after both died of a suspected fentanyl overdose just days apart.

The deaths of two Northern Virginia teenagers have led to an urgent warning from the Prince William County Police Department after both died of a suspected fentanyl overdose just days apart.

Emotions boiled over in Prince George’s County Thursday evening during a community forum to discuss the recent uptick in violent crime.

The omicron subvariant BA.2 has arrived in the DMV, and it has brought with it the same concern and anxiety as previous variants of the coronavirus.