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Suburbanites are voting — and that's good news for Joe Biden 03/07/2020 09:05pm • BURNSVILLE, Minn. (AP) — Nearly two years after suburbanites helped drive a Democratic surge, there are clear signs these voters are engaged and primed to vote Democratic again. Turnout in the Democratic presidential primary has been strong across suburban counties, from northern Virginia to So Va. redistricting change approved despite opposition from some black lawmakers 03/07/2020 05:30am • Changes for redistricting in Virginia advanced Friday despite opposition from black lawmakers in the House of Delegates. Narrow House approval of a proposed constitutional amendment that will now go to voters this fall was perhaps the biggest vote on a complicated day. To keep certain bills al 5-year-old boy, 5 others wounded in Northeast DC barber shop shooting 03/06/2020 10:45pm • Six people were injured in a shooting that occurred inside a barber shop in Northeast D.C., police said. It happened inside Snaps Barber Shop on the 6200 block of Dix Street NE on Friday around 6:15 p.m. near the D.C. and Prince George's County, Maryland, border. Three suspects entered the bar DC gets its first coronavirus pop-up shop 03/06/2020 05:54am • (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=9be9c680-c459-4acb-af21-654a2ccca384';cnx.cmd.push(function() {cnx({playerId: "9be9c680-c459-4acb-af21-654a2ccca384",mediaId: 'f1e76b4b-6a59-4cb6-83cc-e5f0a5ac8507' }).render("87161536bfd11d26");}); WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation's capita Politics, age affect how local residents view coronavirus, poll finds 03/05/2020 10:33am • Age and political affiliation appear to be playing a role in how people in the D.C. area view the coronavirus, according to a local poll conducted by Heart and Mind Strategies on behalf of WTOP. The poll showed younger people are more concerned than older people, even though health officials have Analysts: Md. sales tax proposal would net more than $2.9 billion 03/02/2020 09:35am • This content was republished with permission from WTOP’s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for Maryland Matters’ free email subscription today. Expanding Maryland’s sales tax to most services would generate more than $3.7 billion in new taxes in five years, according to the fi Q&A: What's next for the Tokyo Olympics as virus spreads? 03/02/2020 04:11am • TOKYO (AP) — The spreading virus from China has been reported in more than 60 countries and puts the Tokyo Olympics at risk. The Olympics are to open on July 24 — less than five months away. The Paralympics follow on Aug. 25. IOC President Thomas Bach, in an intervie Pedestrian struck, killed on Route 7 in Loudoun Co. 03/01/2020 09:10am • A man died after being hit by two cars while he was trying to cross Virginia Route 7 in Loudoun County, Virginia, in the early hours of Sunday. The man was trying to cross the road at Dranesville Road, near the Sugarland Crossing shopping center, at about 2:40 a.m. when he was hit by two cars in Friendly kissing poses European dilemma as virus spreads 03/01/2020 04:10am • MILAN (AP) — When French President Emmanuel Macron leaned in to give Premier Giuseppe Conte the Italian double-cheek kiss not once, but on two separate occasions, during a Franco-Italian summit in Naples this week, it was much more than a greeting. It was a signal to c Planning to see DC's cherry blossoms in 2020? Consider an approach from National Harbor 02/29/2020 05:46am • (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=9be9c680-c459-4acb-af21-654a2ccca384';cnx.cmd.push(function() {cnx({playerId: "9be9c680-c459-4acb-af21-654a2ccca384",mediaId: '9d306504-c532-4f8d-ae46-b375d28b90f2' }).render("809615366c0145e2");}); The 200 Okame cherry trees at the Nationa Will coronavirus cause shortages on store shelves? 02/28/2020 09:54am • Customers may soon have to pay more or wait a little longer to purchase various goods if the coronavirus continues to spread, warned a business researcher with Virginia Tech. Barbara Hoopes, a professor of business information technology, says the virus has caused a "blockage" in the global suppl Va. man charged with animal cruelty responds to concerns he's opening purebred puppy shop 02/27/2020 05:56pm • Composite image of the storefront of Woofys and a dog walker from similarly-named Woofie's. (WTOP File/Courtesy Woofies) A Virginia man who is charged with animal cruelty told WTOP that he is innocent, and plans to move forward opening a pet shop in Fairfax County. But there is already a similar Man arrested in Maryland syringe attack ordered held as new details emerge 02/26/2020 02:30pm • The man accused of stabbing a woman with a syringe at an Anne Arundel County, Maryland, grocery store last week made his first appearance in court Wednesday. Prosecutors said "absolutely chilling" video shows 51-year-old Thomas Stemen, of Churchton, Maryland, not only assault the woman with t Constellation Theatre stages Alfred Hitchcock farce 'The 39 Steps' 02/25/2020 02:23am • Christopher Walker, Gwen Grastorf, Drew Kopas and Patricia Hurley star in "The 39 Steps" at Constellation Theatre. (Cameron Whitman Photography) Alfred Hitchcock is best known for Hollywood suspense across "Rear Window," "Vertigo," "North By Northwest," "Psycho" and "The Birds," but the bes Surveillance video shows suspect in possible syringe assault in Md. 02/24/2020 05:19pm • Police in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, have released security video of a man seen possibly assaulting a woman with what could be a syringe last week at a grocery store. "We need to find out what his motive was with this, what exactly he stabbed this woman with, if it was a syringe," Sgt. Ja