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Parents, teachers push back on DC's plan to reopen schools to more students 10/28/2020 03:24pm • Parents and teachers in D.C. are pushing back on the city's plan to reopen schools next month to about 7,000 elementary school students. Though some parents are happy their children will have the opportunity to return to in-person learning, others worry about those kids who are not getting the sa Nationals decline options on Eaton, S谩nchez and Thames 10/28/2020 03:07pm • Nationals decline options on Eaton, Sánchez and Thames originally appeared on NBC Sports WashingtonThe Nationals player purge continued Wednesday when players were eligible to become free agents.The organization declined options on Adam Eaton, Aníbal Sánchez, Howie Kendrick and Woman follows man, 84, home and robs him in his Bethesda garage 10/28/2020 11:29am • Montgomery County police are seeking this suspect in a Bethesda robbery. (Montgomery County police) Police in Montgomery County, Maryland, are looking to identify an older woman who robbed an older man in Bethesda after following him home from a store. They released surveillance photos on Wed Affordable and Socially Distant Ways to Celebrate Halloween 10/28/2020 12:00am • Christina Cay, a mother of two, is planning for Halloween to look quite different this year. For one thing, the popular, historic-home-lined trick-or-treating street near where she lives in Charleston, South Carolina, is staying dark this season. Halloween parties are canceled, and her children, age When Living Off Campus, Avoid These Loan Mistakes 10/28/2020 12:00am • Student loans can be used to pay for off-campus living expenses like rent and food, but experts warn of relying too heavily on loans for those in an apartment near campus or those commuting and living with family. "Usually the cost of attendance is higher when a student opts to live off campus; how Northern Virginia sees uptick in coronavirus cases 10/27/2020 04:05pm • Consistent with much of the U.S., COVID-19 cases in Virginia have been climbing. But for now, Northern Virginia is not seeing the kind of surge other communities in the state are. Statewide, the seven-day average of new daily cases was at 1,094. Though that's not quite yet comparable to the se Manassas Park, developer team to create a downtown to 'bring to life a place' 10/27/2020 11:51am • Many people know Manassas Park only as a stretch of congested Va. Route 28, bordered by the historic city of Manassas and Prince William County. The independent city of Manassas Park, with a population of just over 14,000 people, last week entered an arrangement with a developer with the goal of Ideas for having a safe Thanksgiving during COVID-19 Pandemic 10/27/2020 07:00am • Should you cancel Thanksgiving dinner to avoid contracting or spreading the novel coronavirus? For tens of millions of Americans, the holiday means traveling to be with their family for a cozy gathering and an elaborate Thanksgiving dinner featuring turkey, cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes and ot GALA Hispanic Theatre returns from pandemic with newly-renovated space 10/27/2020 12:19am • GALA Hispanic Theatre has constructed a set encased in plexiglass, which both protects audiences during the pandemic and doubles as a symbolic representation of the characters' emotional state. (Courtesy GALA Hispanic Theatre) It's one of the only Hispanic theaters in the entire region with How to Shop for Health Insurance Covering Mental Health 10/27/2020 12:00am • One of the many landmark provisions of the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, is its insistence on covering mental and behavioral health issues. Before the ACA, such coverage was sporadic and inconsistent. While some health insurance plans covered a lot, others had no coverage at all. Ye AMD's $35 Billion Xilinx Deal 10/27/2020 12:00am • Stocks largely lost ground on Tuesday, although the tech sector showed resilience amid the announcement of a major merger. As virus cases continue to rise in the U.S. and Europe -- and the flu season is only just beginning -- markets are once again looking to case numbers with some degree of concer 25% of recent Alexandria COVID-19 cases possibly tied to workplace 10/26/2020 08:37pm • As the long-predicted fall surge of COVID-19 accelerates nationwide, the City of Alexandria in Virginia is detailing how over 400 of its recent cases possibly originated. The city's Health Department interviewed 422 infected residents from Sept. 21 to Oct. 19 and found that one-fourth of them had Maryland urges residents to shop local for the holiday season 10/26/2020 07:19pm • Many Maryland retailers and restaurants have suffered significant economic loss due to the COVID-19 pandemic. And there's a simple way residents can give these small businesses a hand up this holiday season: Shop locally. Maryland Comptroller Peter Franchot said people can support their communiti Eye-opening tips to know about frames when buying glasses 10/26/2020 04:45pm • It can be fun picking out a new pair of glasses, and a locally-based consumers' group wants you to know that you don't have to spend a fortune on frames to get a good quality pair. "Price points, the big price differences, they're just kind of window dressing," said Kevin Brasler, executive edito Buying too much online? Reston firm says impulse buying never higher 10/26/2020 10:04am • Digital commerce has seen a major upswing during the pandemic. (Getty Images/iStockphoto/CarmenMurillo) Online shopping is nothing new, but the pandemic has ignited significant growth in e-commerce in the U.S. and it has changed consumer behavior. Reston, Virginia-based digital tracking and a