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Lawmakers consider expanding authority of Md. attorney general’s independent investigations division 02/15/2023 09:43am • This content was republished with permission from WTOP’s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for Maryland Matters’ free email subscription today. Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown (D) testified Tuesday in favor of legislation that would give his office’s Independent Investigati Loudoun Co. school spokesman seeks venue change, claims Youngkin, Miyares tainted jury pool 02/15/2023 09:30am • The attorney for Loudoun County Public Schools spokesman Wayde Byard is asking his felony perjury trial be transferred, claiming Virginia's governor and attorney general have infected the entire jury pool, WTOP has learned. The charges against Byard came after a special grand jury report accused Defense attorney Ed Nuttall seeks to unseat Fairfax Co. prosecutor Descano 02/14/2023 08:20am • Defense attorney Ed Nuttall, who has represented more than 20 officers in police-involved shootings, has launched a Democratic primary campaign to replace Steve Descano, who was elected Fairfax County Commonwealth's Attorney in 2019 on a platform of social justice reform. Nuttall tells WTOP that Georgetown students work to exonerate Baltimore man freed after 27 years in prison 02/13/2023 09:08pm • At 16 years old, he was convicted of murder. Last week, Kenneth Bond, now 43, walked out of prison. The Baltimore man plans to clear his name next. Striding across the parking lot toward a waiting crowd and away from the Jessup Correctional Institute, Kenneth Bond stood tall with a wide smile — Loudoun Co.'s Biberaj shrugs off 'noise' from Youngkin, Miyares, set to announce reelection bid 02/13/2023 08:21am • In 2020, when Buta Biberaj was sworn in as Loudoun County, Virginia's first elected female Commonwealth's Attorney, on a platform of judicial reform, she knew she would face challenges — now, she wants four more years of challenges. Biberaj, a Democrat, will announce her bid for reelection Mond 2 Stafford residents face multiple charges after fleeing traffic stop, car chase 02/11/2023 08:09pm • A vehicle pursuit stemming from a traffic stop in Fredericksburg, Virginia, Friday afternoon ended in deputies using intentional vehicle contact to end the chase and arrest both the driver and passenger, according to the Stafford County Sheriff's Office. On Friday at 2:30 p.m., a deputy stopped a Federal jury convicts Va. man for $1M prescription drug fraud 02/11/2023 03:31pm • A man from Portsmouth, Virginia, was convicted Thursday for his role in a scheme that defrauded Medicare of more than $1 million in prescription drug benefits, according to federal prosecutors. The Department of Justice said that 33-year-old Ronald A. Beasley II was convicted for conspiracy to co Former Montgomery Co. school bus driver faces up to 40 years in prison for sexually abusing students 02/10/2023 01:00pm • A former Montgomery County, Maryland, school bus driver is facing up to 40 years in prison for sexually abusing four special needs students, according to the county state's attorney's office. A jury found 67-year-old Etienne Kabongo criminally responsible Thursday for the abuse. He argued he shou DC-area brother and sister admit to dealing deadly fentanyl-laced drugs 02/08/2023 09:01pm • Siblings, who are linked to a 20-year-old D.C. woman's overdose, confessed to dealing drugs they knew were laced with potentially deadly levels of fentanyl. Shortly after the unnamed woman's overdose in April, white powder found on her coffee table tested positive for fentanyl, according to a rel Serial rapist could face life in prison for DC attack 02/06/2023 09:08pm • A serial rapist could get life in prison for his attack on a woman from Adams Morgan in D.C. A jury convicted 48-year-old Ronald Berton Jr. in the June 12, 2010, rape of a woman who was asleep in her ground level apartment, according to a Justice Department statement. More DC News M DC's mayor wants to make changes to controversial criminal code 02/06/2023 02:02pm • D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser wants criminals to be held accountable, and she says the changes she's proposing to the District's new criminal code to increase penalties for certain crimes will send that message. The District's new Revised Criminal Code that passed last month generally keeps police, pr In response to SCOTUS opinion, Senate committee will consider bills this week to limit concealed firearms possession 02/06/2023 01:49pm • This content was republished with permission from WTOP’s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for Maryland Matters’ free email subscription today. Denise Reid has an unfortunate level of knowledge about gun violence, with 11 family members shot or killed. That includes her son, Tevon Te Ghost gun use in U.S. crimes rose over 1,000% since 2017, report says 02/03/2023 09:55am • ▶ Watch Video: ATF director on sweeping report tracking ghost guns The use of ghost guns — homemade firearms that can be built from parts bought online or with 3D printers — in U.S. crimes has risen more than 1,000% since 2017, the Department of Justice said in a federal report rel 'He took my baby': Karon Blake's mother speaks out, demands justice 02/02/2023 06:01am • Karon Blake's mom spoke publicly for the first time, Wednesday since her 13-year-old son was shot dead last month in Northeast D.C. Jason Lewis, the man charged this week with second-degree murder in the boy's death, had told police that Karon Blake and others were breaking into cars in his Brook DC police chief worries criminal code overhaul doesn't support victims of violence 02/01/2023 05:45am • While Congress considers a revamp of D.C.'s archaic criminal code, one of the bill's most outspoken critics has a message for federal lawmakers during their review process: Justice for the victim matters, too. In an interview with WTOP's "DMV Download" podcast, D.C. police Chief Robert Contee sai