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Ukraine's top prosecutor speaks of 'evil' Russian atrocities 04/19/2023 04:25pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — Russia's invading forces are deliberately using rape, torture and kidnapping to try to sow terror among civilians in Ukraine, the top prosecutor in Ukraine told U.S. lawmakers in graphic testimony Wednesday. Prosecutor General Andriy Kostin said nearly 80,000 cases of war crimes Supreme Court lets Texas death row inmate pursue DNA lawsuit 04/19/2023 10:48am • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that longtime Texas death row inmate Rodney Reed should have a chance to argue for testing of crime-scene evidence that he says will help clear him. The justices, in a 6-3 decision, sent Reed's case back to a lower court for his constitutional What to know about KC shooting of Black teen Ralph Yarl 04/19/2023 03:21am • KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Black teen Ralph Yarl was shot twice, in the head and arm, after going to the wrong home in Kansas City, Missouri, to pick up his younger brothers. Andrew Lester, an 84-year-old white man, told police he fired at honors student Yarl, 16, out of fear last week. But whethe Man accused of fleeing to Dubai after fatal 2021 shooting in Ashburn found guilty 04/14/2023 11:11pm • A Leesburg, Virginia, man who was accused of killing an Ashburn woman and then fleeing to Dubai in 2021 has been convicted. A Loudoun County jury found Furqan Syed, who was 40 at the time of his arrest in March 2022, guilty on Friday of first-degree murder, statutory burglary and a felony weapons General Assembly caps session that saw passage of top Democratic priorities, renewed partnership with governor 04/11/2023 12:21pm • This content was republished with permission from WTOP’s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for Maryland Matters’ free email subscription today. An angry Republican walk-off in the House of Delegates and a photo finish in the Senate ended the 2023 session of the Maryland General Ass Md. General Assembly caps session passing top Democratic priorities, renewed partnership with governor 04/11/2023 05:30am • This content was republished with permission from WTOP’s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for Maryland Matters’ free email subscription today. An angry Republican walk-off in the House of Delegates and a photo finish in the Senate ended the 2023 session of the Maryland General A Bijan Ghaisar's mother responds to body camera video of teenager shot, killed by Park Police 04/05/2023 10:55pm • The mother of Bijan Ghaisar, the unarmed Virginia man shot and killed by U.S. Park Police almost six years ago, responded to the recently released video of a teenager in a stolen car fatally shot by Park Police last month. "I wish we had the body camera images from Bijan's case," Kelly Ghaisar sa Longtime Frederick Co. sheriff indicted on conspiracy charges in machine gun scheme 04/05/2023 04:55pm • The longtime sheriff of Frederick County, Maryland, as well as the owner of a shooting range in the county, have been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of conspiracy and making false statements in what prosecutors say was a scheme to illegally acquire machine guns. The indictments were Moore names Paul Monteiro as new public service secretary 04/04/2023 10:15am • ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland Gov. Wes Moore named Paul Monteiro on Monday to lead a new service-year program for high school graduates, a program that is a priority of the new governor's first year in office. Monteiro, who has been nominated to serve as the secretary of the new Department of Differences remain on gun bills, but Md. lawmakers working to meld them 03/31/2023 09:19am • This content was republished with permission from WTOP’s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for Maryland Matters’ free email subscription today. Maryland lawmakers say that, with less than two weeks to go, they are optimistic that bills they’ve crafted aimed at limiting the number DC man sentenced for Adams Morgan home invasion sexual assaults 03/18/2023 12:21pm • A D.C. man will serve two consecutive life sentences for breaking into women's homes and sexually assaulting them in 2007 and 2010, U.S. Attorney Matthew M. Graves announced Friday. Ronald P. Berton, Jr., 48, of D.C., was sentenced Friday in two sexual assaults that happened in Adams Morgan in D. DC man sentenced to 130 years in prison for gang-related murders 03/11/2023 09:36pm • A D.C. man was sentenced Friday to 130 years in prison for the murder of two people as part of a "violent gang feud," prosecutors said. After a nine week trial, Derek Turner, 31, was sentenced in the killings of DeVin Hall and Andrew McPhatter in separate shootings in 2017. His 130-year sentence Former owner of DC physiatry practice convicted in $5M health care fraud scheme 03/11/2023 07:52pm • A physician who owned and operated a now-defunct physiatry and pain management practice in D.C. was convicted by a federal jury Friday for a $5 million health care fraud scheme, prosecutors said. More Local News More DC News More Crime News Frederick Gooding, 71, of Wilming 17 arrested near Capitol protesting Senate vote to overturn DC criminal code 03/08/2023 06:25pm • Seventeen D.C. statehood advocates were arrested near the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday afternoon, protesting a Senate vote to block an overhaul of the District’s century-old criminal code. About 100 people gathered outside Union Station to support statehood and full representation for the District's Family of Md. man killed by DC police sergeant mourns 'the glue of our family' 03/08/2023 04:10pm • The cousin of An'Twan Gilmore said her family's wounds are reopening at word a grand jury has indicted the D.C. police sergeant who shot and killed him in August 2021. "It's been devastating to go through holidays that we'd normally spend together, without him," said LaShaunna Gilmore during a ne