Morning Roundup: A Northern Virginia Woman Is Suing A Local Family Over Alleged Labor Trafficking

Feb 22, 2021

A woman is suing a Northern Virginia family, alleging her housekeeping job ended in labor trafficking. [Post]
Proposed legislation in Maryland could make internal police discipline and complaint records public. [Baltimore Sun]
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser will appear before Congress to make the case for D.C. statehood next month. [Post]
The story behind the morgue D.C. built last year to handle a COVID-19 surge — and the volunteers who staff it. [Washingtonian]
Two women were killed in a head-on collision in Prince George’s County on Sunday. [WJLA]
Less than 1,000 Maryland residents are hospitalized with COVID-19 for the first time since November. [WTOP]
The history of Black paperboys in Baltimore and their role in local news consumption. [Afro]
Some Catholic church leaders don’t believe Biden should receive the Eucharist, but D.C.’s archbishop is welcoming the president. [Atlantic]
Prince George’s County expects that some students won’t return to classrooms when in-person learning begins in April. [Informer]
Students at the University of Maryland are under a “sequester in place” order due to COVID-19 outbreaks on campus. [NBC 4]
ICYMI: D.C. police shot and injured a man at a crime scene on Friday.
ICYMI: Christian Cooper, the Central Park birder, is using his new fame to push for D.C. statehood.
This Day in DCist: Local sports mogul Ted Leonsis compared D.C.’s lack of free wifi to Flint’s water crisis.