Maryland hired Buzz Williams as its men’s basketball coach Tuesday, quickly moving on afterKevin Willard left the Terrapinsto take the Villanova job. It is an honor and privilege to be named the head coach of the University of Maryland mens basketball team, Williams said in a statement. I promise to uphold the history of Maryland basketball and make ...

A temporary overnight shelter that opened in Reston last summer just before a tent encampment was cleared out closed its doors Tuesday. Now advocates for unhoused people are expressing deep concern. The shelter was opened around the time that a large tent encampment was dismantled. Since late last July, the doors opened every evening at 5 p.m. for ...

Former NFL player Richard Sherman is the latest sports figure whose home has been burglarized. The Super Bowl champion posted pictures and a video on social media asking if anyone recognized three armed intruders that broke into his house last weekend. Sherman, an Amazon Prime Video analyst, was a three-time All-Pro and five-time Pro Bowl defensive ...

More than 100 former prosecutors voiced their opposition to Ed Martin leading the U.S. Attorney’s Office for D.C. and called for a public hearing to address his support for Jan. 6 rioters and past claims about the 2020 election. “Martin is an egregiously unqualified political hack who has never served either as a prosecutor or judge and who has no ...

The body of the fourth U.S. Army soldier who went missing during a training exercise in Lithuania last week was found Tuesday afternoon, military officials announced. The soldier, whose name was not released pending family notification, was the last to be found after the bodies of three other soldiers were found Monday.   The four soldiers, from ...

Ousted D.C. Councilmember Trayon White has announced he’s running for reelection to the Ward 8 seat vacated when the Council expelled him less than two months ago. White, 40, made the announcement on Instagram Monday, asking for people to sign a petition to get him on the ballot for the special election. Im getting my name on the ballot to run a ...

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi said Tuesday she has directed federal prosecutors to seek the death penalty against Luigi Mangione, the man accused of gunning down UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson outside a Manhattan hotel on Dec. 4. Mangione, 26, faces separate federal and state murder charges for the killing. The federal charges include a charge ...

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement says sending a Maryland man with protected status to El Salvador was an “administrative error.” Kilmar Abrego Garcia is being held in a notorious prison, his wife and attorney say. In court documents, Robert Cerna, an acting ICE field office director, called Abrego Garcia’s removal “an oversight” ...

April 1st is the day when pranks, hoaxes, and good-natured trickery take center stage. While its not an official holiday, April Fools Day is celebrated across the world, with individuals and even major brands joining in on the fun. But where did this tradition of playful deception come from, and what are some of the most iconic pranks ever pulled? ...

After the popular social media account Washingtonian Problems posted a disturbing clip over the weekend showing a small dog being violently kicked and then dragged along the sidewalk, the Humane Rescue Alliance is turning to the public for help and offering a reward. The video has garnered thousands of views and shares as social media users try to ...

The Bronx Bombers now have torpedoes in their arsenal. The New York Yankees officially launched the “torpedo bat” era over the weekend — with multiple players using a modified baseball bat during the teams historic offensive onslaught in its opening series of the 2025 season. The wood of the bat is shifted from the barrel towards the batter’s ...

Video shows dirt bike and ATV riders speed around D.C.s World War II Memorial, which honors those who served in the war and those who died. At least three people can be seen whizzing around the circular memorial on the National Mall. The riders rev their engines as they pass the memorials granite columns, which represent U.S. states and territories. ...

Reagan Washington National Airport has seen passenger traffic drop significantly since Jan. 29’s deadly mid-air collision between an American Airlines regional jet and an Army Blackhawk helicopter, which killed 67 people. New safety concerns over more recent incidents including aircraft getting too close to each other last weekend and a kite being ...

The work to remove D.C.s Black Lives Matter Plaza is nearly complete. News4 video shows solid paint where huge yellow letters spelled out Black Lives Matter three weeks earlier. Mayor Muriel Bowser announced on March 4 that the two-block-long, curb-to-curb letters painted in 2020 would be painted over. She acknowledged she made the decision in the ...

Two No. 1 seeds are Final Four bound. The top overall-seeded UCLA Bruins and defending champion South Carolina Gamecocks on Sunday punched tickets to Tampa, Florida, for the national semifinals in the 2025 women’s NCAA Tournament. The Bruins, led by First Team All-American center Lauren Betts, defeated the No. 3 LSU Tigers to reach the program’s ...

We share the best things to do every weekend in The Weekend Scene newsletter its completely free to subscribe! The clock may be ticking on the cherry blossoms’ peak bloom, but we’re still counting down to plenty of exciting events for the National Cherry Blossom Festival. April is the perfect time to embrace the finer things. Stop and smell some ...

Massachusetts native and astronaut Sunita Williams is scheduled to speak publicly on Monday for the very first time since splashing back down to Earth earlier this month. The former Needham resident will speak alongside fellow astronaut Butch Wilmore at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. You can watch the 2:30 p.m. press conference live in the ...

An 87-year-old woman was found killed inside a home in Potomac, Maryland, Sunday night after her grandson showed up to a police station and confessed to the crime, police say. Spencer Dillon Hamilton, 27, walked into the Rockville City Police station just after 8 p.m. and told officers he killed his grandmother, Pauline Yvonne Titus-Dillon, at her home, ...

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Maxim Naumov came to a stop in the middle of the ice, looked up at the sky and patted his heart. Then he mouthed a few words, in Russian, to his parents: This is for you guys. You guys are with me. I love you both. Former world pairs champions Vadim Naumov and Evgenia Shishkova died in January when their plane crashed into a military helicopter on ...

Bird flu wasnt on Tim Hansons mind when he fed his cats specialty pet food containing raw chicken. You go to the pet shop and it was the premium raw food, he said. It was finely ground to a consistency that I thought was beneficial to my cats. But in early February, one of his cats, Kira, developed a fever and stopped eating. A test ordered by a ...

Morgan Wallens second stint as musical guest on Saturday Night Live is stirring some controversy among viewers. On Saturday, March 29, Oscar winner Mikey Madison hosted the late-night sketch comedy show for the first time alongside Wallen as musical guest.  During the episode, the country music star performed two songs fromhis upcomingprojectIm The ...

Three teenagers were charged after multiple fights broke out at the Fashion Centre at Pentagon City on Saturday, according to Arlington County police. A 13-year-old girl, a 15-year-old girl and a 14-year-old boy were arrested after police closed the mall early from the fights. At 7:06 p.m., police responded to the 1100 block of S. Hayes Street for ...

Kevin Willard, the former head coach for men’s basketball at the University of Maryland, has been named the new head coach for Villanova University’s men’s basketball team. Willard replaces Kyle Neptune, who was fired earlier this month after three straight seasons without an NCAA Tournament appearance. Welcome to Nova Nation, Coach Willard ...

Instead of joining in Columbia Universitys annual Alumni Day celebrations for the School of International and Public Affairs, several alumni gathered to denounce the school by ripping up their diplomas in protest. The protest follows the detention of Mahmoud Khalil, a graduate student at the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), a ...