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Jaywalking decriminalization is coming to Va., 100 years after the auto industry helped make it a crime 12/25/2020 10:54pm • 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. Though it didn’t garner as much attention as other police reform measures during the special legislative session that ended this fa Prince George's Co. looks at early release for young people sentenced to life in prison 12/23/2020 05:37pm • Juveniles who have been sentenced to life in prison in Maryland are getting a second chance under a program that takes a fresh look at their cases. Prince George's County State's Attorney Aisha Braveboy has worked to release nine people under this program, the latest just a few weeks ago. Brav Just in time for the holidays: Your book recommendations 12/23/2020 08:45am • This content was republished with permission from WTOP’s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for Maryland Matters’ free email subscription today. Earlier this year, we published two articles about a reading list that two lawmakers ― state Sen. Cory V. McCray (D-Baltimore City) and Bowser names Contee new DC police chief 12/22/2020 11:40am • Newly named D.C. police Chief Robert Contee speaks at a news conference Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2020. (Courtesy D.C. Mayor's Office) D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser named police veteran Robert Contee as the District's new police chief Tuesday. She called it a "full circle" for Contee, a Washington native 10 years later, arrest made in DC woman's disappearance case 12/20/2020 10:24pm • Police in D.C. arrested and charged a suspect with murder 10 years after a woman disappeared from her Southeast home. Unique Harris, 24, was reported missing from her home on Hartford Street in the Woodland neighborhood on Oct. 10, 2010. Multiple methods to find new leads were attempted, inclu Historic Black church in DC sees opportunity in the burning of Black Lives Matter signs 12/18/2020 08:40pm • Conversations about historic Black churches being targeted by the Proud Boys group last weekend in D.C. remain in the spotlight. Police called the burning of Black Lives Matter signs potential hate crimes, but that's not the priority for some parishioners. Reverend William H. Lamar IV, Pastor of Transit police: FBI agent shot Metro passenger after 'verbal exchange' 12/18/2020 07:02pm • An FBI agent shot a Metro passenger after what transit police called a "verbal exchange" earlier this week in Montgomery County, Maryland. The victim of the shooting remains in stable condition. The FBI agent and the victim were not identified in Metro Transit Police's latest summary. The shoo New Black Lives Matter banner raised at DC church vandalized after pro-Trump protest 12/18/2020 03:45pm • Bishop LaTrelle Easterling speaks at the installation of a new Black Lives Matter banner in front of the Asbury United Methodist Church in downtown D.C. on Friday, Dec. 18, 2020. (Screenshot via Facebook livestream) A new Black Lives Matter banner rose up outside of a historic D.C. church follow Prince George's Co. officer sentenced in sexual assault of colleague after party 12/16/2020 04:53pm • A Prince George's County police officer will spend the next seven years in prison for sexually assaulting a female officer after a Fraternal Order of Police lodge party more than three years ago. Prince George's County State's Attorney Aisha Braveboy said the victim who addressed the judge to giv Cyclist pleads guilty to Capital Crescent Trail assault that went viral 12/16/2020 01:58pm • Anthony Brennan III, seen in a viral video, was charged with three counts of assault and battery against three young people, who were posting flyers along the Capital Crescent Trail protesting the death of George Floyd. (Courtesy NBC Washington) A Maryland man has pleaded guilty to assaulting th Arlington Co. police to start wearing body cameras 12/15/2020 12:32pm • Starting Wednesday, police officers in Arlington County, Virginia, will begin wearing body cameras as part of their uniforms. The cameras will record all dispatch calls, as well as enforcement and investigative contacts. Arlington police said in a statement that officers assigned to patrol, speci DC church condemns attack that saw Black Lives Matter sign burned during pro-Trump rally 12/14/2020 11:57pm • The pastor of a historic D.C. church whose Black Lives Matter sign was torn down and burned in the street during Saturday's chaotic pro-Trump "Million MAGA March" responded Sunday, saying the violent act was "reminiscent of cross burnings." "We are a resilient people who have trusted in God throu DC-area artist responds after her public display was destroyed in Takoma Park 12/12/2020 08:29pm • A local artist is responding after a woman was caught scraping her public display off of a picnic table in Takoma Park, Maryland. A friend of 28-year-old D.C. artist Tenbeete Solomon, who goes by Trap Bob, was walking by her art display on a picnic table commissioned by the city of Takoma Park wh Carmelo Duncan, 1-year-old lost to DC gun violence, remembered 12/06/2020 07:06am • Hundreds of people came together for a vigil on Saturday night to remember Carmelo Duncan, the 15-month-old boy who was killed in Southeast D.C. on Wednesday night. "He’s never going to grow up; he’s never going to go to school," said John Ayala, as he gathered with community members for the DC violence interrupter arrested, charged in 2017 murder 12/04/2020 10:23pm • A man who worked as a violence interrupter for D.C.'s Office of the Attorney General was arrested and charged for allegedly committing a murder in 2017. D.C. Police arrested Cotey Wynn, 39, of Southeast D.C. Friday for the murder of 53-year-old Eric Linnair Wright. Police found Wright sufferin