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Judge: DC crime lab's conduct 'shameful,' but murder case that exposed errors can continue 06/24/2022 05:13pm • A judge on Friday called the D.C. crime lab's handling of errors in the investigation of a 2015 double murder "shameful," but ruled that the trials of the two defendants can continue. "The conduct and the activity of the Department of Forensic Science is nothing short of shameful," D.C. Superior 'A matter of human decency': Virginia state police cold case database now online 06/24/2022 09:33am • Unlike true-crime television programs, most murders and missing persons cases aren't solved in an hour — Virginia is hoping public awareness and participation can help solve some of the commonwealth's "cold cases." Virginia State Police just launched the first version of its online searchable d Former Prince George's Co. police lieutenant guilty of tax evasion 06/23/2022 12:38pm • A former Prince George's County, Maryland, police lieutenant pleaded guilty Wednesday to a federal tax evasion charge for underreporting over $1 million in income from his security business. Edward Scott Finn, 48, of Dunkirk, was with the Prince George’s County Police Department while he owned The first 100 days: Maryland candidates for governor lay out early priorities 06/20/2022 09:28am • This content was republished with permission from WTOP’s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for Maryland Matters’ free email subscription today. As candidates for governor continue to wind their way along the campaign trail in the final weeks before the 2022 primary elections, voter Man who shot pregnant DC woman in car gets 21 years 06/18/2022 08:04am • A Capitol Heights, Maryland, man received a 21-year sentence for the shooting death of a woman as they sat in her car in Northwest D.C. in January. Joseph Fox, 28, pleaded guilty in March to second-degree murder while armed and two counts of assault with a dangerous weapon. More D.C. N Meet the candidates for DC attorney general: Bruce Spiva 06/16/2022 05:28am • Karl Racine — the District’s first elected attorney general — isn’t running for reelection this year. Three Democrats are vying for the vote in D.C.’s June 21 primary: Ryan Jones, Brian Schwalb and Bruce Spiva. Bruce Spiva is a longtime D.C. lawyer with 30 years under his belt who h Meet the candidates for DC attorney general: Brian Schwalb 06/16/2022 05:17am • Karl Racine — the District’s first elected attorney general — isn’t running for reelection this year. Three Democrats are vying for the vote in D.C.’s June 21 primary: Ryan Jones, Brian Schwalb and Bruce Spiva. Brian Schwalb is a third-generation Washingtonian, longtime trial lawyer Meet the candidates for DC attorney general: Ryan Jones 06/16/2022 04:54am • Karl Racine — the District's first elected attorney general — isn't running for reelection this year. Three Democrats are vying for the vote in D.C.'s June 21 primary: Ryan Jones, Brian Schwalb and Bruce Spiva. Ryan Jones is a D.C. lawyer who founded his firm in 2014 and has largely litig Which candidates have cash leads in home stretch of Md. governor's race? 06/15/2022 10:27pm • This content was republished with permission from WTOP’s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for Maryland Matters’ free email subscription today. Editor’s note: This story has been updated to reflect updated calculations in the Franchot campaign’s take since mid-January. Two Dem How Cryptocurrency and DeFi Can Do Good in the World 06/15/2022 08:00pm • The crypto community is still rather niche. The value of all cryptocurrencies in the world still only amounts to about $900 billion at the time of this writing. Four U.S. companies -- Apple Inc. (ticker: AAPL), Microsoft Corp. (MSFT), Alphabet Inc. (GOOG, GOOGL) and Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) -- each ha Loudoun Co. commonwealth's attorney appeals judge's decision tossing office from criminal case 06/14/2022 10:57pm • A Virginia circuit court judge has disqualified Loudoun County Commonwealth's Attorney Buta Biberaj and her team of from participating in a criminal case. And they are appealing the decision. (WTOP/Dick Uliano) There's an unusual dispute in Loudoun County, where a Virginia circuit court judge ha 2 arrested after robbery sent Arlington middle school into lockdown 06/13/2022 10:54pm • A store robbery in Arlington, Virginia, sent a nearby school into lockdown, and two men have been charged — one for robbery and the other for trying to break into the school, where he had relatives. Police responded to the report of a robbery on Friday before just after 12:20 p.m. on the 200 bl ‘Criminal mindset’ — author Garrett Graff on his new history of Watergate 06/13/2022 08:42am • A half-century ago Friday, the break-in at the Democratic National Committee offices at the Watergate complex in Foggy Bottom led to an investigation that gripped the country for two years and led to the U.S.’ only presidential resignation. This week, WTOP’s Rick Massimo is talking with experts Justice Dept. says it won't reopen Ghaisar investigation 06/10/2022 04:04pm • The Justice Department on Friday said it would not reopen the investigation into the case of Bijan Ghaisar, the unarmed motorist who was shot by U.S. Park Police in 2017. The department said in a statement that “there was insufficient evidence to establish a willful violation” of the statute, Audit finds mixed results in DC's public health approach to curbing violence 06/07/2022 12:18pm • D.C. is having mixed results five years after beginning the implementation of a comprehensive blueprint for a public health approach to criminal justice reform. The Neighborhood Engagement Achieves Results Act — known as NEAR — was enacted by the Council in 2016. Tuesday, the Office of the Di