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Policing through Change: DC-area officers react to the Capitol attack, coronavirus health risks 01/18/2021 12:01am • Police officers are anxious ahead of the presidential inauguration following the attack on the U.S. Capitol where officers became the targets of mob violence. It is just the latest concern in a tumultuous year in policing. WTOP Investigative Reporter Megan Cloherty spoke with police officers in DC AG Racine: Equating BLM protests, Capitol siege 'shocking and outrageous' 01/15/2021 02:09pm • Trump supporters clash with police and security forces as people try to storm the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021. (Photo by Joseph Prezioso/AFP via Getty Images) D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine on Friday blasted disinformation being circulated about last Promises to work together — but also glaring differences — as unprecedented Md. session begins 01/13/2021 06:09pm • Senate President Bill Ferguson (D-Baltimore City), in his protected space, presides during the first day of the 2021 General Assembly session. Photo by Danielle E. Gaines. This content was republished with permission from WTOP’s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for Maryland Mattersâ After Capitol mob assault, acting AG says 'no tolerance' for violence at Biden inauguration 01/13/2021 09:18am • The acting head of the Justice Department said Tuesday that there will be "no tolerance whatsoever" for those who seek to disrupt President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration Jan. 20. In the wake of the deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol by a pro-Trump mob, acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen said d Virginia 2021 legislative session begins: Coronavirus top of mind 01/12/2021 10:53am • Virginia lawmakers are scheduled to meet Wednesday for the start of their 2021 legislative session, and the coronavirus pandemic will once again take up a significant amount of their time. A top priority will be ensuring that schools have enough funding, including money for extra counselors, to h Md. high court hears argument on ruling to not dismiss kids' murder counts for Catherine Hoggle 01/11/2021 02:24pm • Maryland's Court of Special Appeals heard arguments Monday over whether a Montgomery County judge erred in failing to dismiss murder charges against Catherine Hoggle, whose two young children disappeared more than six years ago. Hoggle was arrested in September 2014. She was the last person to se Few arrests amid Capitol chaos increases prosecution challenge 01/09/2021 12:42am • In this Jan. 6, 2021, file photo, smoke fills the walkway outside the Senate Chamber as supporters of President Donald Trump are confronted by U.S. Capitol Police officers inside the Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File) (EDITOR'S NOTE: The article has been updated to refle Review: 'The Dissident' chronicles assassination of Jamal Khashoggi 01/08/2021 10:09am • In 2017, Bryan Fogle won the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature for "Icarus," which started as a first-person steroid reenactment of cyclist Lance Armstrong and evolved into a wider expose on the Olympic doping scandal by the Russian government. Truly, it's a rare talent to balance "Super Siz 'They failed the country': Ex-DC chief cites 'double standard' in Capitol, Black Lives Matter preparedness 01/07/2021 12:41pm • Members of U.S. Capitol Police inspect a damaged entrance of the U.S. Capitol on Thursday, Jan. 7, 2021 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images) Retired D.C. Police Chief Charles Ramsey said the leadership of Capitol Police "not only failed themselves, they failed the Capitol, a Loudoun Co. man arrested in shooting of cat with pellet gun 01/05/2021 09:50am • A Virginia man will be arraigned later this month on charges he shot a cat in Sterling late last year. The cat, found with multiple wounds and fractures from a pellet gun last November, had to be euthanized, according to Loudoun Animal Services. Loudoun County deputies assisted Loudoun County Woman guilty of threatening to kill, bomb Georgetown Visitation Prep over wedding notices 01/05/2021 06:49am • A California woman, who threatened to kill students and staff at D.C.'s Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School by bombing the school, pleaded guilty to a hate crime in federal court Monday. Sonia Tabizada, 36, of San Jacinto, California, made multiple calls to Georgetown Visitation Preparatory Northern Virginia prosecutors push to abolish death penalty 01/04/2021 11:37pm • Almost 20 years ago, the U.S. Justice Department determined Beltway snipers John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo would go on trial in Prince William and Fairfax counties first, because that was where they stood the best chance of getting the death penalty. Now, 12 Virginia commonwealth's attorn Sheriff's deputy still in hospital after Walmart shooting in Sterling 01/04/2021 02:22pm • A Loudoun County sheriff's deputy is recovering in a hospital after Saturday's shooting at a Walmart in Sterling, Virginia, officials said. The Loudoun County Sheriff's Office said the deputy is hospitalized in "stable condition" after he was shot by a suspect, who also shot two Walmart workers a Fairfax County makes sweeping sentencing reforms 12/30/2020 09:43pm • Major sentencing reforms have just been made in Fairfax County, Virginia, and its top prosecutor wants to see state-level changes too. "The overall goal here is to build a more fair and just criminal justice system, while also having a system that actually keeps our community safe," said Fairfax Prince William Co. sheriff's deputy fired after 'disturbing' social media posts 12/27/2020 12:16am • A Prince William County, Virginia, sheriff's deputy was fired Saturday after multiple "disturbing comments" were discovered on his social media account. The Prince William County Sheriff's Office said in a Facebook statement that the agency learned about the contents of the deputy's posts on Frid