A Maryland National Guardsman who tested positive for the coronavirus was stationed at the FedEx Field screening site, sources told News4. The soldier is in isolation, according to a Maryland National Guard spokesman. Around 20 others are quarantined to limit the spread of the virus. Military medical personnel and leaders are cleaning and sanitizin...

A patient shot a gun in the MedStar Washington Hospital Center waiting room Friday evening, according to a statement by hospital officials. Hospital security were able to control the situation and contact police. The shooter was taken into custody by police and the weapon was recovered, officials said. There were no injuries.

Four Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service personnel have tested positive for COVID-19.

A postal worker at the Brentwood Post Office in Northeast D.C. tested positive for COVID-19 Friday, according to the US Postal Service.  However, the threat to other postal workers at the facility remains low, the postal service said. Of the more than 630,000 postal workers nationwide, 111 have tested positive for the virus, USPS said.

The employee was sent home from Hampden Lane Liquor and Wine in Bethesda feeling ill on Wednesday. They tested positive Friday.

Employees at two Prince George’s County high schools tested positive for COVID-19, according to a statement released by the district. An employee at Charles H. Flowers High School near Springdale and another at High Point High School in Beltsville tested positive for the virus, the district said. PGCPS encourages everyone to follow CDC guidelines t...

Gov. Larry Hogan says Maryland has received a major disaster declaration from the federal government in response to the coronavirus

States and hospitals are trying to add more bed as they prepare for waves of coronavirus patients. Scott MacFarlane and the News4 I-Team dug through state records to see how many beds local hospitals started the year with. See Maryland’s records here.

All day cares in Maryland except those serving children of essential personnel are shut down. Prince George’s County Bureau Chief Tracee Wilkins spoke to a child care center owner in Greenbelt who is trying to make sense of it all.

A Washington, D.C.-area couple is on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic, treating the sick at area hospitals. They spoke with Telemundo 44 about how they take care of their family and what they wish the public — especially young people — knew.  Luisa Fernanda Flores is an intensive care unit nurse in Maryland. Her husband, Kevin Flore...

School is out in Virginia for the academic year — but the morning announcements must go on. Two students at Oakton High School in Vienna, Virginia, began delivering the morning announcements on Instagram after their school closed because of the coronavirus. Junior Madison Shannon and senior Noah Walker said the show must go on. “We’ve always tried ...

A lawyer who worked for Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser died Friday of coronavirus, the mayor announced Friday morning. Additionally, D.C. officials asked residents to vote by mail in the primary election June 2 and special election June 16 as the fight to stop the spread of the virus continues.  Attorney George Valentine worked in the M...

Some D.C. community organizers are collecting supplies for the inmates inside one of the nation’s largest halfway houses amid growing calls for action to protect the men inside from contracting the coronavirus and spreading it once they leave. Activists and friends of inmates inside Hope Village on Langston Place SE say people are crowded too close...

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