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Noose found at Johns Hopkins University construction site 07/04/2020 08:07pm • BALTIMORE (AP) — Johns Hopkins University is investigating the discovery of a rope tied into a noose at a construction site in a building it owns off its Baltimore campus. Johns Hopkins officials also notified federal authorities about what the university calls a potential hate crime, the Balti Fairfax citizens' group debates redirecting police funding 07/02/2020 05:34am • A citizens' group devoted to battling racism in Fairfax County, Virginia, held a discussion about redirecting police funds to other agencies during an online forum Wednesday. As racial justice protests have erupted following the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis and sparked growing calls to Ex-Northern Va. man sentenced to 20 years in prison for heroin-related death 07/01/2020 05:58pm • A Florida man who once lived in Northern Virginia has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for selling the heroin that led to another man's death by overdose. John Jacob Stapleton, 33, of Fort Pierce, Florida, received his sentence Wednesday for his role in distributing the heroin that killed a L Pulled over in Virginia? Prepare to answer racial questions 07/01/2020 05:10am • Under a new law that takes effect Wednesday, police officers across Virginia will be required to ask racial questions about the driver every time they make a traffic stop. The law is called "The Community Policing Act" and was passed during the General Assembly's legislative session in March. Centreville, Virginia man jailed in Spain was unwitting drug mule, US says 06/27/2020 04:08am • WASHINGTON (AP) — Victor Stemberger of Centreville, Virginia wasn't about to ignore the emails inviting him into a multimillion-dollar business opportunity, so he pitched himself as perfect for the job. In a way he was — but for all the wrong reasons. The 76-year-old Fairfax County man, whose Virginia House will hold summer hearings on police reform 06/26/2020 10:30am • Virginia House Speaker Eileen Filler-Corn has arranged for three joint hearings in July and August to focus on police reform legislation. Among the topics will be the use of force by police, chokeholds, civilian review boards and no-knock warrants. Filler-Corn said the Joint Courts of Justice DC police chief calls council's defunding effort a 'knee-jerk reaction' 06/25/2020 02:41am • Police Chief Peter Newsham at a press conference. At left is D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) D.C.'s police chief, speaking exclusively to WTOP, said the idea of reducing the size of the force "doesn't seem to make common sense," defended a recent statement that officers hav Fairfax County police limit assistance to ICE in noncriminal deportations 06/19/2020 08:59pm • Police in Fairfax County, Virginia, have further decreased their cooperation in noncriminal deportations under a new order. In a policy released on Friday, Fairfax County police implemented changes that will limit how officers assist with deportations, as well as change how they ask for identific Prince George's Co.'s assistant police chief takes over on interim basis 06/19/2020 02:03pm • Prince George's County's assistant police chief, Hector Velez, will serve as interim chief of the department, County Executive Angela Alsobrooks said Friday. Velez takes over as the county conducts a nationwide search to replace Hank Stawinski, who abruptly resigned Thursday. That resignation DC files lawsuits accusing relatives, health aide of taking financial advantage of seniors 06/11/2020 11:02pm • D.C. has filed multiple lawsuits accusing relatives and a caretaker of taking financial advantage of elderly residents. The D.C. Attorney General’s Office filed five separate lawsuits against family members and a home health aid they said “financially exploited” vulnerable adults. The Di As courts reopen amid COVID-19, Maryland AG forms task force to stave evictions 06/11/2020 02:40pm • As Maryland's courts reopen, Attorney General Brian Frosh has formed a COVID-19 Access to Justice Task Force to deal with preexisting racial inequities within the health care and justice systems, which are poised to be exacerbated by the ongoing public health crisis. In an online news conference, Loudoun Co. double-murder suspect seeks to quash statements, lie detector 06/10/2020 02:55pm • The lawyer for a man charged with the 2018 armed murders of an Aldie, Virginia, woman and her adult son said detectives from the Loudoun County Sheriff's Office violated his client's constitutional rights by continuing to question him after he asked for his lawyer close to a dozen times. Brian Ku DC Council unanimously approves sweeping police reforms in emergency legislation 06/09/2020 09:38pm • A person walks Tuesday, June 9, 2020, near the White House in Washington, past signs hanging on a police fence at 16th and H streets after days of protests over the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) The D.C. Council voted unanimously Tuesday afterno Bowser, DC Council respond to calls to defund police 06/09/2020 02:45am • People make their way along 16th Street, Monday, June 8, 2020, near the White House in Washington, after days of protests over the death of George Floyd, a black man who was in police custody in Minneapolis. Floyd died after being restrained by Minneapolis police officers. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) EXCLUSIVE: Lawyer of suspect in viral bike trail assault says client was on his way to priest when stopped by police 06/06/2020 05:56pm • A cyclist is wanted for assaulting people putting up signs along the Capital Crescent Trail. (Courtesy NBC Washington) A Maryland man charged with assaulting three teenagers after a video showed him grabbing a protest flyer from one of teens is apologizing. In a statement released by his lawy