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Washington analysts, journalists react to AG's letter on Mueller report 03/24/2019 06:00pm • Attorney General William Barr's letter to Congress said special counsel Robert Mueller found no evidence that President Donald Trump or anyone on his campaign staff attempted to collude with Russia to influence the elections. Several Washington analysts and journalists joined WTOP on-air to discuss Juvenile court for 4th Damascus HS student charged in locker room assault 03/21/2019 11:07am • A Montgomery County, Maryland, judge ruled Thursday that the fourth Damascus High School football player charged with using a broom to sexually assault younger students in a junior varsity locker room will be tried in juvenile court. That means all four students who had been indicted as adults will Maryland man sentenced to 40 years in child sex abuse case 03/20/2019 11:08pm • A Maryland man was sentenced Wednesday to 40 years in federal prison, followed by 40 more of supervised release for the production of child pornography and other charges. Glenn Ranger, 56, of Glen Burnie was sentenced for two counts of production of child pornography connected to the sexual abuse Chanting students ejected from meeting on private police for Johns Hopkins University 03/12/2019 03:33pm • A group of students and community activists were ejected from a hearing room in the Maryland House Office Building in Annapolis where lawmakers were voting on bills to establish a private police force on the Johns Hopkins University campus in Baltimore. The students from Hopkins and the nearby Ma Paul Manafort gets 47 months. Legal experts share examples of people who got more time for less 03/08/2019 03:21am • When Paul Manafort was sentenced to about four years in federal prison, the backlash was fast and furious on social media. Judge T.S. Ellis sentenced Manafort to 47 months Thursday for defrauding banks and the government, and failing to pay taxes on millions of dollars in income earned from Ukrai Prince George's Co. officer accused of punching man during arrest 03/07/2019 04:11pm • A Prince George's County police officer is accused of repeatedly punching a man's face during an October arrest in Temple Hills, Maryland. Cpl. Stephen Downey, who is white, punched the handcuffed man, who is black, "numerous times" after the officer had put a seat belt on him in the front seat o Security changes follow protest over Black History Month exercise at Loudoun Co. elementary school 03/05/2019 04:50am • Security is being increased at an elementary school in Ashburn, Virginia, days after peaceful protesters entered the school's office without authorization. The Loudoun County Sheriff's Office said six protesters made their way into the office at Madison's Trust Elementary School on Friday by foll Today in History: March 5 03/05/2019 12:15am • Today is Tuesday, March 5, the 64th day of 2019. There are 301 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On March 5, 1963, country music performers Patsy Cline, Cowboy Copas and Hawkshaw Hawkins died in the crash of their plane, a Piper Comanche, near Camden, Tennessee, along with Police seek IDs of 'Sunglasses' and 'Red Beard' in Charlottesville parking garage attack 03/04/2019 08:20am • Four men have already been arrested and convicted in the Aug. 12, 2017 videotaped beating of DeAndre Harris, in a Charlottesville, Virginia, parking garage, after the white nationalist rally — but police remain unable to identify two attackers. The assault on the then-20-year-old black man, in Interfaith work session plots the path toward racial reconciliation in Virginia 03/04/2019 04:34am • This year commemorates 400 years since the first enslaved Africans were brought to Virginia’s shores, and the Commonwealth is now grappling with the recent wounds of race-related incidents. An interfaith group gathered in Historic Leesburg Sunday evening to figure out how Virginians can move fo Reward offered in DC animal cruelty case after dog found seriously hurt 03/01/2019 01:40pm • D.C.'s Humane Rescue Alliance is offering a reward for anyone who can help find someone who hurt a dog so badly with an ax that she had to be euthanized. The alliance said in a statement Friday that someone brought a dog in on Thursday to their office on New York Avenue in Northeast D.C. with hea Dominion HS teen charged with felonies after fight with officer 03/01/2019 12:51pm • A Loudoun County teenager is facing felony charges after he threw punches at a school resource officer at his high school, authorities said. The teen, who is not being identified given that he's being charged as a juvenile, is facing multiple felony charges, including assault on a law enforcement Today in History: Feb. 22 02/22/2019 12:00am • Today is Friday, Feb. 22, the 53rd day of 2019. Today's Highlight in History: On Feb. 22, 1997, scientists in Scotland announced they had succeeded in cloning an adult mammal, producing a lamb named "Dolly.'' (Dolly, however, was later put down after a short life marred by premature aging and Analysis: With Md. arrest, growing concerns about domestic terrorism 02/21/2019 06:53pm • WASHINGTON — The arrest of Christopher Paul Hasson is a symptom of a shift in thinking inside the law enforcement community. For almost 20 years, deep, well-founded worries about international terrorists penetrating the homeland and launching massive, catastrophic attacks such as that of 9/11 h University of Chicago police history may offer lessons for Hopkins, Baltimore 02/21/2019 09:13am • Johns Hopkins University is again trying to convince the Maryland General Assembly that the university and other JHU institutions need a full-blown private police force for campus security – arguing that other prestigious private universities in cities like Baltimore have seen results with their c