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Report probing DC crime lab's missteps coming soon — and it will be public, official says 10/14/2021 06:12pm • D.C. Council member Charles Allen said he is considering rewriting the legislation that formed the District's independent crime lab, and the D.C. Attorney General's Office and federal prosecutors are making plans to launch reviews of past convictions in D.C. Superior Court after a series of serious IG investigation probes whether DC crime lab tried to keep information from defense attorneys 10/14/2021 12:45pm • It started with a ballistics error in a murder case, then spiraled into allegations that managers at the D.C. Department of Forensic Sciences deliberately concealed conflicting findings to minimize the mistake. Documents reviewed by WTOP indicate a sprawling criminal investigation being carried o Prince George's Co. taps new assistant police chief 10/14/2021 09:27am • Prince George's County, Maryland, has a new assistant chief of police. Police Chief Malik Aziz said Wednesday that he has chosen Vernon Hale III, who hails from Galveston, Texas. "After working with Chief Hale for 26 years in Dallas before his departure to the City of Galveston, I am looking f Montgomery Co. tracks spike in domestic violence cases involving strangulations 10/13/2021 12:21pm • Montgomery County, Maryland, is reporting more serious domestic violence crimes than ever before, many where the officers report the victim was strangled. During Domestic Violence Awareness Month, county police want to bring attention to this all too common crime. "During COVID, we did see an 'Dopesick' gives Purdue Pharma and OxyContin a sweeping dramatic treatment 10/12/2021 08:48am • "Dopesick" is a major undertaking, exploring the opioid crisis from multiple angles, including the ground-level carnage inflicted by OxyContin addiction, Purdue Pharma's inner workings and the government personnel seeking to combat it. Scattered in places, in its totality it's an engrossing eight-pa Overdoses on the rise in Manassas, Prince William Co. 10/11/2021 03:25pm • This article was written by WTOP’s news partner InsideNoVa.com and republished with permission. Sign up for InsideNoVa.com’s free email subscription today. The courts, police and social services agencies in Prince William County and Manassas are all trying to do more to stem the rise in opioi Former Md. inmate to get more compensation for his wrongful conviction 10/10/2021 12:32pm • BALTIMORE, Md. (AP) — Kirk Bloodsworth, who was exonerated nearly three decades ago after serving almost nine years in prison in Maryland, including two on death row, was awarded a little more than $400,000 by the state Board of Public Works on Wednesday as part of a new system to compensate those Md. Dems hoping to succeed Hogan speak out at Anne Arundel Co. forum 10/08/2021 01:14pm • Former Obama administration official Ashwani Jain, Former Clinton administration official Jon Baron, former U.S Education Secretary John King, former Prince George’s County Executive Rushern L. Baker III, entrepreneur Michael Rosenbaum and Comptroller Peter V. R. Franchot (D) discuss their policy DC AG Racine argues in defense of bill that would keep 16, 17-year-olds from adult justice system 10/07/2021 09:32pm • The D.C. attorney general made the case for a bill that would keep 16- and 17-year-olds from being charged as adults at a hearing before the D.C. Council Thursday. Karl Racine proposed the Redefinition of Child Amendment Act in July in order to prevent teenagers with a chance for rehabilitation Bowie couple pleads guilty to selling fentanyl, heroin 10/06/2021 04:17pm • A Bowie, Maryland, couple have pleaded guilty to federal charges of selling fentanyl and heroin, causing overdoses in victims including a 9-month-old. Andrew Joseph Trimmer, 32, and Alicia Marie Walls, 28, pleaded guilty on Monday, the U.S. Department of Justice said in a statement. The pair p Roy McGrath, Hogan's former chief of staff, indicted for federal, state charges 10/05/2021 01:47pm • This content was republished with permission from WTOP’s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for Maryland Matters’ free email subscription today. Roy McGrath, the former chief of staff to Gov. Lawrence J. Hogan, Jr. (R) and ex-head of the Maryland Environmental Service, faces more th Georgetown University accepting applications for bachelor's degree program for Md. prisoners 10/04/2021 10:42pm • Georgetown University in D.C. is now accepting applications for a new program that allows inmates in Maryland prisons to get a college education. The university will choose 25 inmates who will be transferred to Patuxent Institution in Jessup to enroll in the five-year program that begins in Janua Barron wins Senate confirmation to become US attorney for Md. 10/01/2021 04:15pm • This content was republished with permission from WTOP’s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for Maryland Matters’ free email subscription today. In a voice vote Thursday night, state Del. Erek L. Barron (D-Prince George’s) won U.S. Senate confirmation to become U.S. attorney for Mar After years of legislating, Anton’s Law goes into effect 10/01/2021 07:41am • This content was republished with permission from WTOP’s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for Maryland Matters’ free email subscription today. After several legislative attempts in past years fell short, beginning Friday, civilians will have the right to request to review police m Supreme Court gears up for new term filled with contentious disputes 09/30/2021 06:03am • Washington — The Supreme Court is slated to return to the bench for the start of its new term on Monday, with the justices set to take up politically divisive cases involving the Second Amendment, religious liberty and abortion, all while battling bruised public perception of the high court's legi