Miranda Jackson

A convicted drug dealer who weighs 750 pounds was sentenced to five years in prison during a hearing that was held in a courthouse loading dock as he lay on a stretcher inside an ambulance.

In Maryland, you’ll be need to be 21 to buy cigarettes starting Tuesday.

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian has broken ground on a memorial to honor Native American veterans.

A bill proposed in Montgomery County, Maryland, would force vape shops to move away from schools.

A county in northern Virginia is taking down signs that name a major highway after the former president of the Confederacy.

A murder trial has begun for one of four teenagers accused of killing a Maryland police officer.

A Virginia high school drama teacher accused of secretly recording students undressing is free on bond.

A Virginia drama teacher previously accused of illegally filming his au pair and charged with child pornography also filmed girls “in various states of undress” inside a high school, Fairfax County police said.

The Washington, D.C. metro area is in for a breezy, but calm Memorial Day weekend after a massive storm system blew through the area on Thursday.

A dance company in Bethesda, Maryland gives children and young adults with down syndrome a place to be themselves. On Wednesday, the team will perform with pop singer Andy Grammer at the Annual AcceptAbility Gala in Washington, D.C.

The Archdiocese of Washington, D.C., installed its first African-American archbishop on Tuesday.

A Prince George’s County police officer was arrested Wednesday after she was caught talking on her cellphone while driving, Maryland State Police said.

The Washington, D.C., area is in for a warm, dry summer after months of record setting rainfall, according to Storm Team4 Meteorologist Doug Kammerer.

The city of Washington, D.C., is set to get its first official pet cemetery.

Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., says it is expelling two students linked to an admissions scandal involving the school’s former tennis coach.

The stretch of U.S. Route 1 and Virginia Route 110 that goes through Arlington, Virginia, will have its name changed from Jefferson Davis Highway to Richmond Highway as the county requested, the Commonwealth Transportation Board announced.

The girl’s mother, Aija Brown, tells news outlets that Nariah Ivy Brown died Friday after being sexually assaulted two days earlier.

Charges against Washington Redskins safety Montae Nicholson stemming from an altercation in December have been dropped.

A newly elected Virginia state House delegate who is Muslim said he was harassed by protesters and asked how he planned to implement Sharia law at his first town hall.

A 220-year-old Catholic girls’ school in Washington, D.C., will now allow news about same-sex unions in its alumnae magazine.