21+ hour, 29+ min ago   (705+ words) Virginia is replacing traditional food-assistance benefit cards with chip-enabled versions designed to make it harder for thieves to steal SNAP benefits from families. About 749,000 state residents receive assistance through the program. Gov. Abigail Spanberger announced Thursday that the state has…...

1+ day, 16+ hour ago   (330+ words) Six people, including three teenagers, have been charged in connection with a fire that caused more than $1 million in damage to a search-and-rescue training facility in Lorton, Virginia, earlier this summer, Fairfax County police said. The fire was reported around…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (588+ words) Maryland voters will get to decide in November on a congressional redistricting amendment being pushed by Democrats as part of a nationwide battle for control of the U.S. House in future elections. The Maryland Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the proposed…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (574+ words) For all the latest developments in Congress, follow WTOP Capitol Hill correspondent Mitchell Miller at Today on the Hill. Tens of thousands of people from El Salvador, including many in the D.C. area, could face deportation if the Trump administration decides…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (421+ words) An office site often called the “Darth Vader” building near Fairfax County’s Mosaic District is being transformed into affordable apartment units scheduled to begin welcoming residents next year. Gov. Abigail Spanberger and several elected officials from the Northern Virginia suburb…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (1197+ words) A federal judge has temporarily blocked Virginia from enforcing key provisions of a new law restricting cooperation between local law enforcement and federal immigration authorities, allowing existing partnerships with U.S. Immigration and Customs enforcement to continue while the legal challenge plays…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (742+ words) The Appalachian Trail Conservancy defines a thru-hike as completing all of the trail’s sections in any order within a year, allowing for pauses. Sanders started Sept. 6 in West Virginia, hopscotched around with some brief breaks and finished Monday atop Maine’s…...

2+ week, 16+ hour ago   (234+ words) A former Department of Energy employee pleaded guilty Thursday to a 17-year scheme of secretly filming and sexually exploiting minors in his Woodbridge home. Beginning at least as early as March 2008, Jackson Quentin Crocker, 54, of Woodbridge, used hidden cameras to…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (198+ words) A Virginia man who police said dressed in a mask similar to the one in the movie “Scream” has been arrested in connection with a number of destruction of property incidents at a community center in Lorton. Zion Gibbs, 22, of…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (511+ words) “Marches are designed to grab attention and then go into the trenches and organize around that,” he said. This year’s march, which Sharpton’s group is co-hosting with King’s Drum Major Institute, a progressive think tank and community action group, will…...