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How messaging technology is helping fuel global protests 06/06/2020 01:26pm • When a friend shared a Facebook post with Michelle Burris inviting her to protest in downtown Washington, D.C., last Saturday, she knew she had to go. So she bought a Black Lives Matter mask from a street vendor before marching the streets of the district with a “No Justice, No Peace" sign. Aft Cyclist who charged teens putting up George Floyd protest flyers 'sick with remorse' 06/06/2020 11:10am • Anthony Brennan III, of Kensington, Maryland, who was charged on Friday with three counts of second-degree assault after a widely circulated video allegedly showing him assaulting three young walkers posting flyers protesting the death of George Floyd on the Capital Crescent Trail in Montgomery Coun Va. state police break up protest stopping traffic on I-95 06/06/2020 06:37am • Protesters blocked traffic while marching on I-95 in Prince William County, Virginia, Friday evening before state police broke up the demonstration and made multiple arrests, authorities said. According to the police, the group of 75 protesters entered the highway from Exit 152 near Dumfries arou Park police: Cyclist filmed assaulting people posting signs 06/04/2020 10:15pm • BETHESDA, Md. (AP) — Park police in Maryland are looking for a man after a video appeared to show him violently grab an object from a child who was posting signs protesting the death of George Floyd. The Maryland-National Capital Park Police tweeted that the assault occurred on Monday on the Ca Column: 'Stick to sports?' Never again 06/03/2020 05:03pm • "Stick to sports." "Shut up and dribble." These are some of the worst, and incredibly tired, statements uttered by small-minded people who don't like when an athlete says something pertaining to social or political matters the hearer doesn't agree with — as if athletes are lesser members of Bowser orders new curfew; 'sad and angry' after destruction, mayhem in DC during protests 06/01/2020 11:57am • (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=9be9c680-c459-4acb-af21-654a2ccca384';cnx.cmd.push(function() {cnx({playerId: "9be9c680-c459-4acb-af21-654a2ccca384",mediaId: '6b297233-7ae5-4861-a43c-e237f8e74a10' }).render("522615364291fbbf");}); D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser ordered another Md. House Speaker creates police accountability workgroup in the House 06/01/2020 04:43am • This content was republished with permission from WTOP’s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for Maryland Matters’ free email subscription today. Maryland Speaker of the House Adrienne A. Jones (D-Baltimore County) and House Judiciary Chairman Luke H. Clippinger (D-Baltimore City) said Man accused of assaulting officer who broke up Southeast DC basketball game 05/25/2020 04:27pm • Police said an officer was assaulted when he tried to stop a basketball game in Southeast D.C. Sunday afternoon. Under the District's COVID-19 stay-at-home order, playgrounds and basketball courts are closed. Police said about 50 people had gathered on the courts at Randle Highlands Elementary Growing old in prison: How Maryland is working to ease the path to release for a low-risk, high-cost population 05/02/2020 04:35am • A graphic showing the recidivism rates between "Ungers" and the general prison population. (Courtesy Angela Roberts/Capital News Service) Ask him, and Stanley Mitchell will proudly tell you he works 12 hour days. Over the last seven years, the 71-year-old Charles County resident has held a sw Despite emergency declarations, cases move forward in Loudoun Co. courts, others 04/27/2020 12:39pm • With declarations of judicial emergency in response to COVID-19 from chief justices of their appeals courts, most cases in Virginia, Maryland and D.C.'s courthouses have been postponed. But in each jurisdiction, the wheels of justice continue to turn. Last Wednesday, Virginia's Supreme Court exte DC attorney general opposes prosecution of local gun cases in federal court 04/23/2020 09:45am • D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine made moves Wednesday to oppose the prosecution of local gun cases in federal court, arguing that the policy undermines the District's ability to try local cases in local court and disproportionately harms African Americans due to the federal courts' harsher sentenci 5 charged in connection to deaths of Spotsylvania County family 04/16/2020 08:55pm • Five men from Philadelphia have been charged in connection to a triple homicide in May 2019 in the Fredericksburg area of Spotsylvania County, Virginia. The Spotsylvania Sheriff's Office said James Christopher Myers, 30, Durward Anthony Allen, 27, Jamal Kelvin Bailey, 30, Hugh Cameron Green 30, M Coronavirus: Metro asks riders to wear masks; US halts payments to WHO pending review of virus warnings 04/15/2020 02:16am • A woman and young girl wear face masks to protect against the spread of the new coronavirus as they walk past a boarded-up store, Monday, April 13, 2020, in Washington. The District of Columbia is under a stay-home order for all residents in an effort to slow the spread of the new coronavirus. (AP Gambling, transportation, discrimination and budget changes in Virginia 04/14/2020 05:30am • From casinos and transportation to voting and anti-discrimination measures, Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam has signed hundreds of bills and suggested amendments to dozens of others ahead of next week’s reconvened session of the General Assembly. Northam’s deadline to act over the weekend also re Md. appeals court won't release juveniles, says coronavirus order due 'shortly' 04/11/2020 12:50pm • Maryland's highest court has rejected a request to release some non-violent juvenile offenders, whose lawyers say are at increased risk of contracting coronavirus. The order says the chief judge reviewing the request in Maryland's Court of Appeals will issue guidance "shortly" to address the COVI