In a post on X, Montgomery County Fire and Rescue said a crash involving a school bus and another vehicle happened at the intersection of New Hampshire Avenue and Norwood Road just after 7:15 a.m.

Update~5/20 Norwood/New Hampshire(Silver Spring) dispatched for auto collison involving school bus. 12 transported(2 adults/10 kids). All non-life threatening. No one trapped. making contact with parents. FDept has left the scene.

— Pazos@mcfrsPIO (@DavidPazos15)

In total, 12 people, including two adults, were transported to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries, according to officials.

In a statement to ĂŰĚŇĘÓƵapp, Montgomery County Public Schools said the bus was going to James Hubert Blake High School in Cloverly.

Below is a map of where the accident took place.

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The alert went out around 5 a.m. and said that Damarie Williams was last seen around midnight in the Essex area of the county. Around 5:45 a.m. police said the child was found and wasn’t hurt.

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Police said they believed to be with 32-year-old Dariel Lavarr Martin Williams.

An Amber Alert has been issued for 1-yr-old Damarie Williams, who was last seen with 32-yr-old Dariel Williams in the Essex area. Vehicle: 2019 Kia Optima, MD, Registration 9EN8081. If located, please call 911 or 410-307-2020. Dariel Williams is considered armed & dangerous.

— Baltimore County Police Department (@BaltCoPolice)

Police said that Williams was armed and possibly driving a 2019 White Kia Optima with a Maryland license plate number 9EN8081.

ĂŰĚŇĘÓƵapp’s Jessica Kronzer contributed to this report.

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It’s back to school for more than 80,000 kids in Loudoun County, Virginia, on Thursday.

Here are a few changes in the school system:

• The county is opening Elaine E. Thompson Elementary School, its first three-story elementary school, which has already received an award from the Environmental Protection Agency’s Decarbonize Your Design Challenge.
• It’s the first year of a new staggered schedule that aims to get more students to class on time.
• The school system tightened social media access for middle school students.
• This school year, the county will consider new discipline consequences for students.

Face masks are not required this year in Loudoun County Public Schools, with the exception of preschool programs.

Also, a program that provided free meals during the COVID-19 emergency is over now, and families will resume paying for student meals at pre-pandemic prices.

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Principal Tim Sparbanie of Elaine E. Thompson Elementary School in Sterling said he’s expecting nearly 900 students.

“We’re all excited about the very first day of school. So that’s the exciting part; opening a brand-new building, welcoming everybody inside. Its going to be great,” Sparbanie told ĂŰĚŇĘÓƵapp.

School doors open to students at 7:10 a.m. on weekdays, with classes starting 20 minutes later. He said there are “about 110 total staff members” to begin the school year.

ĂŰĚŇĘÓƵapp’ Scott Gelman and Neal Augenstein contributed to this story.

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In Fairfax County, several Fairfax County Public Library branches will distribute a limited amount of free COVID-19 rapid antigen tests to both residents and nonresidents.

The library branches are Reston, George Mason, Chantilly and Sherwood. Tests will be distributed at 10 a.m. Each branch will have 300 tests.

Here’s where they will be distributed:

Reston Regional Library
11925 Bowman Towne Drive
Reston, Virginia 20190

George Mason Regional Library
7001 Little River Turnpike
Annandale, Virginia 22003

Chantilly Regional Library
4000 Stringfellow Road
Chantilly, Virginia 20151

Sherwood Regional Library
2501 Sherwood Hall Lane
Alexandria, Virginia 22306

Tests are limited to four per household.

Prince George’s County

In Maryland’s Prince George’s County, at-home tests will be given out at community centers and libraries throughout the county Wednesday and Thursday. The county will require proof of county residency and each person will get one test kit with two rapid tests.

Here’s where they will be distributed:

Wednesday, Jan. 12, at 10 a.m. and Thursday, Jan. 13 at 8 a.m., while supplies last.

Hillcrest Heights Community Center
2300 Oxon Run Drive
Temple Hills, Maryland 20748

Westphalia Community Center (Drive-thru location)
8900 Westphalia Road
Upper Marlboro, Maryland 20774

Kentland Community Center — Prince George’s Ballroom (Drive-thru location)
2413 Pinebrook Avenue
Landover, Maryland 20785

Cedar Heights Community Center (Drive-thru location)
1200 Glenn Willow Drive
Capitol Heights, Maryland 20743

Langley Park Community Center
1500 Merrimack Drive
Hyattsville, Maryland 20783

Southern Regional Technology and Recreation Complex
7007 Bock Road
Fort Washington, Maryland 20744

Wednesday, Jan. 12, 3 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. and Thursday, Jan. 13, 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., while supplies last

Laurel Branch Library
507 7th St.
Laurel, Maryland 20707

New Carrollton Branch Library
7414 Riverdale Road
New Carrollton, Maryland 20784

Oxon Hill Branch Library
6200 Oxon Hill Road
Oxon Hill, Maryland 20745

South Bowie Branch Library (Drive-thru location)
15301 Hall Road
Bowie, Maryland 20721

Spauldings Branch Library
5811 Old Silver Hill Road
District Heights, Maryland 20747

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Amtrak told ĂŰĚŇĘÓƵapp that the train was supposed to leave Fairfax County at 4 p.m. but it didn’t actually head out until 3:20 this morning because of a freight issue.

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On social media, some people complained about waiting in crowded and dirty conditions in the terminal.

UNACCEPTABLE! 10-13hr delay, too few and totally unhelpful status updates, crowded, cold, smelly terminal. Amtrak owes every customer on trains 52 and 53 100% refunds.

— RealDC (@RealDC1776)

Friday’s trains both to and from Lorton and Sanford have been canceled.

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D.C. first responders were dispatched around 10:30 p.m. Tuesday for a crash reported in the northbound lanes of the parkway between the Roosevelt and Memorial bridges, just north of the Lincoln Memorial.

The man was trapped before rescue, and was transported to a hospital.

Police are still working to determine what caused the crash. U.S. Park Police are participating in the investigation.

Below is a map of the area:

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In a news release, Charles County Public Schools said 157 bus routes did not have coverage as of 8:15 a.m. Monday, with 59 buses out of service — about a fifth of the system’s bus fleet. One bus may provide service for up to four different schools.

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Monday morning’s cancellations come after dozens of bus routes were stopped Friday as drivers took part in a planned sick-out, leaving parents with short notice to get their kids to school on time. It led to a higher-than-average number of absences in the Maryland public school district’s middle and high schools.

Bus drivers plan to continue negotiations over wages and other issues with the school system in mid-November. In its Monday update, CCPS said staff are working with the 26 contractors who provide bus services to address their concerns.

Students who are late or miss school Monday will not be penalized, the school system said.

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The crash happened around 2 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 7 in a parking lot at North Bethesda’s Pike and Rose development.

Montgomery County police said 21-year-old Natalie Nicole Quiroz, a resident of Brunswick, quickly drove off in her black Nissan after striking several people, including 24-year-old Vanessa Moya — who ended up underneath Quiroz’s car.

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Witnesses said Quiroz then drove through the gate of the parking lot and left the scene.

Moya was left with multiple, serious injuries.

Quiroz turned herself in on Tuesday and is facing more than a half-dozen charges, including first-degree assault and reckless driving.

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Two helicopters also accompanying the hearse as it drives through Northern Virginia. At about 3:15 p.m., the Virginia State Police identified the service member as Army Staff Sgt. Ryan Knauss.

Motors were honored & humbled to assist today w/the transport of Staff Sgt. Ryan Knauss from to .

Photo location: I-81 northbound in County.

— VA State Police (@VSPPIO)

Fairfax County police said the public can show their respects on the overpasses along Interstate 66 east or along the Capital Beltway south of I-66.

At about 3:15, Dave Dildine, in the ĂŰĚŇĘÓƵapp Traffic Center, said eastbound traffic on I-66 was stopped near Haymarket and Gainesville and the eastbound onramps are also closed. The overpasses were full of people paying respect, he said.

“This procession will be moving slowly eastbound down Interstate 66 into Fairfax County over the next half-hour to an hour’s time, eventually moving onto the Outer Loop southbound toward Springfield and then northbound on I-395.”

Westbound I-66 is slow as well, and access to the E-ZPass lanes is closed. “That’s probably the route they’ll take,” Dildine said.

The motorcade will start in Prince William County and head east along I-66. It will then move south on the Beltway, then head north on I-395 before exiting at King Street.

Today, one of the service members tragically killed in Afghanistan will be traveling through FFXCO. A police motorcade will escort the hearse w/ 2 helicopters above. Anyone who wishes to show their respect is asked to be present on the overpasses along the route: I66E to 495S

— Fairfax County Police (@FairfaxCountyPD)

In addition to the 13 service members killed in the Kabul attack, 180 Afghans were killed.

The U.S. completed its withdrawal from Afghanistan on Aug. 30, ending America’s longest war.

The Pentagon has said it evacuated more than 110,000 people.

Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam said toward the end of August that more than 14,000 people evacuated from Afghanistan have arrived in the commonwealth through Dulles International Airport, calling it “one of the largest airlifts in history” and saying “we can all be proud” of Virginia’s “critical role.”

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as having at least 50 total new cases per 100,000 persons in the past seven days.

Fairfax County, Virginia’s largest county in terms of population, is at 56 cases per 100,000 as of Thursday.

The CDC’s four levels of community transmission range from low to high. Substantial is the second-highest tier; 100 cases or more per 100,000 people would be considered “high.”

The cities of Manassas, Manassas Park and Falls Church are the only jurisdictions in Northern Virginia that are not seeing substantial community transmissions.

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Cases have been rising throughout the region since mid-July — a surge largely attributed to the more infectious delta variant and lagging vaccination rates in some communities.

The CDC recommends that in areas of substantial transmission, people wear masks indoors, regardless of vaccination status.

D.C. is seeing substantial transmission of the virus and has reimplemented its indoor mask mandate.

Health leaders in Alexandria and the counties of Arlington, Fairfax, Loudoun and Prince William recommend indoor mask-wearing regardless of vaccination status.

Maryland’s most populous county — Montgomery County — on Thursday voted to reinstate an indoor mask mandate. The county has a weekly average of just under 58 cases per 100,000.

And Prince George’s County on Thursday announced that masks would be required inside all county government buildings — following that up hours later by mandating masks indoors in all public venues in the county, irrespective of whether they’re vaccinated.

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan and Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam on Thursday each mandated vaccines, or regular testing, for many or all state workers in their respective states.

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According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s , several counties in the D.C. region fall within the substantial rate of community transmission of COVID-19 — or a weekly average of at least 50 cases per 100,000 residents.

The cities of Alexandria and Fredericksburg, along with Arlington, Loudoun, Fauquier, Frederick, Culpeper and Prince William counties in Virginia, fall within that category, as well as D.C. itself.

D.C. has reimplemented its indoor mask mandate. In Alexandria, masks are required in city buildings.

Anne Arundel and St. Mary’s counties in Maryland are being added to the substantial transmission list that already includes Prince George’s and Charles counties.

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Anne Arundel County Executive Steuart Pittman is expected to address the rise in cases later Monday morning.

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Montgomery County Fire and Rescue said the fire on Holly Spring Drive in Burtonsville started at about 11 p.m. in either the laundry room or the deck of the two-story, single-family residence.

One of the family said they smelled and saw smoke and flames coming from the deck, which was covered with vinyl flooring, the fire department said. A neighbor called 911.

Officials were told that a contractor installed a new HVAC on Sunday, which a fire spokesperson said “may have involved work on the electrical system.”

He also said that the only ignition source identified that was common to the deck and the laundry room was electrical.

There were no reported injuries. However, the fire caused $1 million in damages.

Officials are still investigating the cause of the blaze. They said the deck and laundry room floor, at the back of the home, collapsed, and that this has limited examination of the area.

Update — 2339 Holly Spring Dr, Burtonsville; single-family house; Cause, under investigation, undetermined (limited examination due to deck & floor collapse); Area of Origin, rear deck or laundry room; Damage ~$1M, incl $600K structure/$300K contents; 4 adults displaced; no inj

— Pete Piringer (@mcfrsPIO)

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Her baby — who was delivered at the hospital through emergency surgery — is currently in critical but stable condition.

The shooting happened just before 5 p.m. in the area of Quinn Street and Southern Avenue in Capitol Heights.

The pregnant woman was pronounced dead at the hospital. She was identified as 18-year-old  J’Lyn Quinones.

A second woman was also shot. Prince George’s County police said she has injuries that were not believed to be life-threatening.

Police said the shooting is under investigation and they’re asking anyone with information to or at 1-866-411-TIPS.

Below is a map of the area where it happened:

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The county board is considering adding a 5-cent tax per plastic bag. Certain items like meat, fish and poultry would be exempt.

“You could alternatively choose to perhaps buy one of the bags the stores offer,” county finance director Michelle Attreed said. “You could bring your own bag.”

Revenue collected would be put toward cleaning up the environment, picking up litter and reducing pollution.

“This isn’t a revenue-generator. It’s really about getting rid of the plastic bag stuff I see everywhere,” said Ann Wheeler, chair of the Prince William Board of Supervisors.

The Virginia General Assembly passed legislation last year allowing localities to impose a bag tax.

A similar tax exists in D.C. and in Maryland’s Montgomery and Howard counties.

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It happened on Ritchie Highway near Norman Road in Glen Burnie around 3:35 a.m. Monday morning.

Anne Arundel Fire and Rescue said the car crashed into a tree.

The man — who was believed to be in his 20s — was pronounced dead at the scene.

The cause of the crash remains unknown.

Fatal motor vehicle crash in Glen Burnie; Ritchie Highway southbound at Norman road. Single vehicle into a tree. Possible traffic delays during the morning rush at that location.

— Anne Arundel Police (@AACOPD)

Below is a map of the area where the crash happened.

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