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New laws taking effect in D.C., Maryland and Virginia on July 1 could change how much you get paid, how you drive, how employers and police act and more. Here’s what you need to know. Paid Family Leave  D.C. workers can take paid family leave as of July 1. The policy passed by the D.C. Council in December 2016...

The coronavirus is spreading among young people in Maryland as they ignore public health guidelines, the governor said in an update Wednesday.  People under 35 have a percent positivity rate that is “shockingly 52 percent higher” than for people 35 and older, Gov. Larry Hogan said at a state Board of Public Works meeting. Many young people are asymptomatic but…

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News4’s Juliana Valencia explains how new laws, including minimum wage increases, could affect residents.

A federal appeals court has upheld Maryland’s ban on bump stocks and other devices that make guns fire faster

After spending months in the hospital battling COVID-19, one woman in Maryland was greeted with a warm welcome home. News4’s Derrick Ward has the story.

A Maryland sheriff’s office has opened a homicide investigation after a 17-year-old girl’s body was found with apparent injuries in a wooded area off a walking trail

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan issued a proclamation marking June 28 as “Freedom of the Press Day” in honor of the five employees of the Capital Gazette killed in a newsroom shooting two years ago

A Maryland man who has helped organize “reopen” protests against measures intended to slow the spread of the coronavirus says he has been sickened with COVID-19.

News4’s Aimee Cho shows how one church is showing love to a Fort Washington pastor as small churches struggle to stay afloat during the coronavirus pandemic.

The Montgomery County Council introduced a budget item to send social workers, not police, to some emergency calls. News4’s Darcy Spencer reports.

A Baltimore restaurant issued an apology after video showed a Black woman and her son being denied service because of the boy’s clothes despite a white child being served while dressed a similar way

The town of Edmonston in Prince Geroge’s County is implementing a new order to hold officers accountable when they are using force in the field. News4’s Darcy Spencer reports.

Montgomery County is now in phase two of reopening, but tanning salons, tattoo and massage parlors must remain closed. News4’s Darcy Spencer spoke to the owner of a massage parlor who is frustrated by the delay in opening and says some of her clients depend on her to relieve their pain.

Researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine are using stem cell therapy to help some of the sickest coronavirus patients in our region. News4’s Doreen Gentzler reports.

A Maryland board has approved settlements of nearly $2 million each for two men who were wrongly imprisoned for crimes they didn’t commit

The county council in Maryland’s most populous jurisdiction is working to replace street names connected to the Confederacy

All nine members of the Montgomery County Council want to change replace any street, school or building names connected to the Confederacy.

Cases have been on the decline in Montgomery County, so it’s gearing up to allow more businesses to reopen to customers. News4’s Aimee Cho explains what you can do during phase two.

Three teens were charged in connection to hateful messages spray-painted on a storage shed outside Walt Whitman High School in Bethesda, Maryland, police say. A racial slur, the word “lynch” and a noose were discovered emblazoned on the shed in yellow spray paint Saturday morning, Montgomery County police said. On Sunday, a 17-year-old boy and 18-year-old Jake Foster Hoffman, of…