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Maryland’s retail sportsbooks and sports betting apps handled almost $100 million more in wagers in March than they did in February, largely from interest in March Madness betting. Total sports betting in Maryland in March was $537 million, up 21.3% from February and 39.1% more than sports wagering in March 2023 when there were fewer…

A private group chat on the Telegram messaging app where members in Maryland and Virginia discussed methods to train dogs for fighting and ways to avoid getting caught has led to convictions for conspiracy to engage in an animal fighting venture, according to federal court records. Earlier this week, 45-year-old Mark Joseph Rodriguez of Stafford,…

This page contains a video which is being blocked by your ad blocker.In order to view the video you must disable your ad blocker. Chevy Chase in D.C. will not get historic designation, at least for now One of D.C.’s wealthier neighborhoods, Chevy Chase, will not get the designation of being a historic district, at…

Virginia State Police have identified the woman killed in Monday’s early morning, two-vehicle crash on Interstate 95 in Prince William County. According to authorities, a 1986 GMC pickup was headed northbound on I-95 around 3:30 a.m. when the driver ran off the road to the left, “overcorrected” and then struck a 2023 Kia Telluride. The…

When something is not working, change it. The Virginia Board of Education is proposing that kind of transformative change for its new accountability framework, by splitting up the state’s accreditation system into two parts: an accreditation system, to assess whether schools are meeting all requirements laid out in state laws and regulations; and an accountability…

A person is dead and another is injured following a two-vehicle crash on Interstate 95 in Prince William County, Virginia, early Monday morning, police said. Virginia State Police said the deadly crash happened around 3:30 a.m. on I-95 northbound at the 151-mile marker, just after exit 150 for Triangle. It is unclear if more people…

A 10-year-old boy is in critical condition Monday after a home in Bowie, Maryland, caught fire overnight, Prince George’s County Fire officials said. Firefighters were called to the scene of a single-family house fire in the 16200 block of Penn Manor Lane in Bowie just after 1 a.m. A woman was inside the building with…

The Smithsonian’s Museum of Natural History in D.C. is celebrating a significant milestone for one of its oldest fossils, known as Allosaurus. The Jurassic dinosaur is being recognized as a type specimen for the entire species, meaning it’s the single physical example researchers will refer to when they describe new fossils of the Allosaurus fragilis…

A Southeast D.C. day care operator was honored Saturday for helping save the lives of 16 children at the Baby Einstein Child Development Center in January. There were 16 children inside the center on Marion Barry Avenue, in the heart of Anacostia, when the day care center’s owner and director Regina Snead smelled the distinctive…

In Maryland’s state Senate chamber, lawmakers moved swiftly through dozens of bills in a Saturday afternoon session. The legislative flow was only disrupted occasionally, due to brief technical errors, confusion over which bills were being discussed, or senators away from their seats when they were supposed to lead floor discussion on legislation. As the Senate…

What if the cure for Alzheimer’s disease could be found long before the age where people are most susceptible to it? A new nationwide program called the AHEAD study aims to answer that question and bring researchers one step closer to defeating Alzheimer’s for good. Dr. Julio Rojas, a neurologist and associate professor at the…

Some schools in Maryland’s Montgomery County are providing “after-school viewing” for the solar eclipse on Monday, but at least one school is keeping students indoors “out of an abundance of caution.” WTOP contacted Montgomery County Public Schools’ Director of Communications Chris Cram, who explained in an email, “Schools across the district are observing the eclipse…