Life goes on at the zoo despite its closure due to the coronavirus.

A local grocery chain popular with the DMV region’s Latino population announced a two-hour food giveaway of staples like rice and milk. More people than they could have imagined arrived needing assistance. Megamart advertised the giveaway as a thank you to its customers on local Spanish-language TV stations. When the day came, hundreds lined up around the parking lots and…

Retired Arlington Police Chief William K. Stover died of natural causes Friday at 89 years old. Stover began his four-decade-long career with the Arlington County Police Department in 1956 as a patrol officer, the department said in a statement. He rose through the ranks serving as a detective in the vice unit, lieutenant in the internal affairs unit and deputy…

The aid includes a $3 billion government purchase of meat, dairy and other agricultural products plus $16 billion in direct payments to farmers.

       

The American Civil Liberties Union is asking a federal court to block Virginia election officials from requiring that absentee voters find a witness to watch them sign their ballots during the COVID-19 pandemic

West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice has ordered that residents and staffers of all nursing homes in the state immediately be tested for the coronavirus