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3 former Washington NFL players hit with charges in health care fraud case 07/28/2020 01:19pm • Three former Washington NFL players have been hit with charges for their alleged roles in a multimillion-dollar scheme to defraud the NFL's health care benefit program by submitting false claims for medical equipment. The fresh charges are part of a new Justice Department indictment released Frid 2 Virginia juvenile escapees captured by US Marshals in Michigan 07/26/2020 01:36am • Two prisoners who escaped from a Virginia juvenile facility less than two weeks ago were arrested Saturday 700 miles away in Michigan. Rashad E. Williams, 18, and Jabar Ali Taylor, 20, were found and arrested without incident at a hotel in Battle Creek, Michigan, at around 5 p.m. The U.S. Mars Commission to decriminalize Md. seeks ‘serious transformation’ of justice system 07/23/2020 10:42am • This content was republished with permission from WTOP’s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for Maryland Matters’ free email subscription today. After completing their first six months of work, advocates from the People’s Commission to Decriminalize Maryland on Wednesday announced Justice for all: Amid police reform debate, Northern Virginia prosecutors target systemic racism 07/20/2020 04:22am • With the nation again embroiled in a debate over police reform after the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Northern Virginia prosecutors are looking for ways to strike out Confederate-era laws and legal customs as they work to dismantle systemic racism. Elected Commonwealth's Attorneys from 1 dead, 8 injured in Northwest DC shooting 07/20/2020 02:56am • One person has died and eight others were injured after a shooting in the Columbia Heights neighborhood of Northwest D.C. Sunday. According to D.C. police, the shooting happened just before 5 p.m. on 14th Street and Spring Road. Police said a woman and eight men were taken to the hospital foll DC holds 'Re-imagining Policing' town hall aimed at bridging gap between officers and residents 07/18/2020 02:19pm • Advisory Neighborhood Commissioners, councilmembers and representatives from the police department and mayor's office held a virtual town hall on Saturday to start the discussion of re-imagining policing within the District. The goal was to put some ideas forward that would create stronger bonds Rewards offered for 2 suspects wanted in the killing of 11-year-old Davon McNeal 07/16/2020 11:52am • Rewards of up to $10,000 are being offered for information on the whereabouts of two suspects wanted in the killing of 11-year-old Davon McNeal of Southeast D.C. on July 4. The U.S. Marshals Capital Area Regional Fugitive Task Force is seeking Carlo General, 19, and Marcel Gordon, 25, who were pa Woman charged with helping inmates escape Virginia facility 07/15/2020 04:48am • BON AIR, Va. — Authorities said a woman who worked at a Virginia juvenile correctional facility was accused of helping two inmates escape. Bon Air Juvenile Correctional Center employee Destiny L. Harris, 23, of Chesterfield County, was charged Tuesday with two counts of aiding with the escape o 7 of the Biggest Corporate Frauds in History 07/14/2020 12:00am • Investors can learn something from these fraud cases.Perhaps your company can't cover the loans you took out in order to get things up and running. Maybe a competitor is undercutting you, or customers just aren't as interested as they once were. You're running out of options, but there's still one o Suspect in killing of 11-year-old Davon McNeal pleads not guilty 07/12/2020 09:16am • A suspect in the killing of Davon McNeal, an 11-year old D.C. boy on the Fourth of July, has pleaded not guilty and will be held in custody until his next hearing, according to court records. Christian Wingfield, 22, of Hillcrest Heights, was ordered to remain in custody during a hearing on Satur Fauquier Co. Sheriff's deputy charged with making up 'attack' 07/12/2020 03:25am • The Fauquier County Sheriff's Office deputy found unconscious on the side of the road in Warrenton on Friday night after an alleged attack has been charged with making a false report. Initially, Deputy Jake Preston Dooley of Marshall, Virginia, claimed he was struck in the head with an object by Retired Fairfax officer dead in Wisconsin crash 07/10/2020 10:08am • A retired Fairfax, Virginia, police officer is dead following a crash in Wisconsin — and authorities say he may have been intentionally targeted because he was white. Phillip Thiessen, 55, a former City of Fairfax police sergeant, died after a July 3 crash in Taycheedah, Wisconsin. According Police arrest suspect in deadly DC shooting of 11-year-old boy 07/09/2020 09:05pm • Police have arrested a suspect in connection to the fatal shooting of 11-year-old Davon McNeal at an anti-violence cookout in D.C. on July Fourth. Three suspects are still wanted, Mayor Muriel Bowser said Thursday. McNeal was shot and killed in Southeast D.C. last Saturday night after a community Review: Netflix reboot of 'Unsolved Mysteries' features Baltimore case 07/09/2020 12:24am • "Unsolved Mysteries" became a staple of true-crime television from 1987-2010. Last week, Netflix debuted the first six episodes of its much-anticipated reboot. Sadly, late great host Robert Stack died in 2003, so that iconic element is obviously missing. Instead, there's a brand new approa 11-year-old boy killed in Southeast DC 07/05/2020 08:20pm • An 11-year-old boy was killed after being shot in the head in Southeast D.C. Saturday night. Davon McNeal was on his way to a cookout and stopped at his aunt's house to pick up a phone charger, according to a Facebook post by his grandfather, John Ayala. When he got out of the car and started