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Ex-Fairmount Heights police officer faces federal charges 08/24/2022 06:34pm • A former Fairmount Heights, Maryland, police officer has been indicted on federal charges over a 2019 incident in D.C. Philip Dupree, 38, was indicted on charges of violating a man’s civil rights and obstructing justice in relation to a traffic stop Aug. 4, 2019. More Local News M DC's law easing officer discipline upheld by federal appeals court 08/23/2022 10:45pm • D.C. Police Chief Robert Contee can still skip going through the police union to discipline officers, thanks to a recent court ruling. The Comprehensive Policing and Justice Reform Emergency Act of 2020, passed in the wake of the killing of George Floyd by police officers in Minneapolis removed t 300 uniformed Howard County officers now wearing body cameras 08/15/2022 11:50pm • It's been several years in the works, but starting this week most police officers in Maryland's Howard County are now equipped with body worn cameras. Following a test program four years ago, all the pieces are finally in place — all the equipment has been obtained, officers have been trained a A Bad Bunny rant, an ex-governor in handcuffs and Puerto Rico still reels nearly five years after Hurricane Maria 08/13/2022 09:47am • A week before former governor of Puerto Rico Wanda Vázquez was arrested by the FBI on bribery charges, pop superstar Bad Bunny riled up a throng of concertgoers in San Juan, calling out the current governor and the island's private electric company in an expletive-filled rant. "We have a governm After 20 years on the run, man charged with raping child back behind bars in Loudoun Co. 08/12/2022 12:33pm • After being on the run for more than 20 years, a man charged with raping a child in Leesburg, Virginia, is back behind bars in Loudoun County following his extradition from El Salvador. Franklin Antonio Carcamo Giron, 45, returned to the U.S. Friday about a month after the Supreme Court of El Sal 5 years after Heather Heyer was killed in Charlottesville, her mother keeps fight for social justice alive 08/12/2022 09:41am • Five years after the deadly Unite The Right rally in Charlottesville, the mother whose daughter was killed when a white nationalist plowed his car into a crowd of counter-protesters, says much work remains to ensure social justice. "There's lots to protest, lots to be fixed," Susan Bro tells WTOP 100-year sentence upheld in killing of 2 Montgomery Co. teenagers 08/11/2022 10:31pm • Maryland's highest court upheld the 100-year sentence of a man who helped kill two Montgomery County high school students on the eve of their high school graduation. The Maryland Court of Appeals affirmed the second-degree murder convictions of Roger Garcia, 24, of Germantown. More Loc Special deputy US marshal in Md. charged in romance scam 08/10/2022 04:08pm • An Upper Marlboro, Maryland, man has been charged with money laundering in connection with romance scams over a period of nearly six years. Isidore Iwuagwu, 35, is facing a federal charge of conspiring to commit money laundering. He was scheduled to make his first court appearance Wednesday in fe Hyattsville man guilty of sexually abusing stepdaughter 08/08/2022 03:24pm • It took a jury just over 30 minutes to convict a Hyattsville man on all charges related to the sexual abuse of his stepdaughter. Quinton Perry Sr., 62, was found guilty Wednesday of sexually abusing a minor and of other related charges -- including second-, third- and fourth-degree sex offenses. Barr says grand jury seems to be focusing on Trump and his inner circle 08/05/2022 05:37pm • Former Attorney General Bill Barr called the newest federal grand jury subpoenas probing the Jan. 6, 202, Capitol riot "a significant event," one that suggests that government prosecutors are probing high-ranking Trump administration officials and allies, and even former President Donald Trump. West Virginia man sentenced to prison for threatening Fauci and others 08/04/2022 09:29pm • A West Virginia man will be spending more than three years in prison for making threats to federal public health officials he didn't like hearing talk about the COVID-19 pandemic, testing and prevention. Fifty-six-year-old Thomas Patrick Connally Jr., most recently of Snowshoe, West Virginia, was Bowie State criminal justice expert on what’s needed to address increase in gun violence 08/03/2022 08:05pm • D.C. is seeing an increase in homicides, even as it continues to fund programs that it hopes will deter crime. Compared to the same time period last year, homicides are up in the District by 11%, according to the latest numbers reported by D.C. police. So, how soon will those programs works? DC community leaders, professional athletes seek collaborative solutions to city's gun violence 08/02/2022 04:09am • Community leaders joined residents concerned about violent crime and several of D.C.'s professional basketball players at a town hall meeting Monday to seek collaborative solutions to dealing with gun violence, which claimed the lives of 17 people just in July. The town hall meeting at R.I.S.E. D 36 years after teen's hanging death, his family is still searching for answers 08/01/2022 03:20am • On the 36th anniversary of her brother Keith's death, Sherri Warren was still fighting back tears. "There is no evidence to show me that this was a suicide," Sherri told WTOP. July 31, 1986, marked the day Montgomery County police discovered the body of 19-year-old Keith Warren hanging from a Baltimore man sentenced for role in fraud schemes totaling over $1.2 million 07/31/2022 02:49pm • A Baltimore man who admitted taking part in schemes to defraud over $1.2 million through identity theft and fraudulent business loan applications has been sentenced to over five years in prison. While on probation for previous fraud schemes, the defendant committed additional fraud and identify t