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Discrimination, affordable housing efforts proposed in Richmond 01/07/2020 03:45pm • Discrimination and affordable housing will be among issues getting attention in Richmond over the next two months with the newly Democratic-led Virginia General Assembly set to start Wednesday. The Democratic majority sees ratifying the Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution as one key w DOJ seeks death sentence for Fairfax County MS-13 linked murders 01/07/2020 05:40am • The U.S. Justice Department announced plans to seek the death penalty against one of 11 people charged in the MS-13 gang-related stabbing deaths of two teens in Fairfax County during the summer of 2016. In a court filing on Friday, federal prosecutors said they intend to seek the death sentence a Criminal justice reforms, looser marijuana laws proposed in Va. 01/05/2020 12:49pm • Editor's note: As Virginia's new General Assembly prepares to convene in the new year, WTOP News is spotlighting some of the issues legislators will consider. This installment covers potential criminal justice reforms. Significant criminal justice reforms are possible as Democrats take control of Governor, legislators back public defender office in Prince William County 12/31/2019 03:05pm • This article was written by WTOP’s news partner InsideNoVa.com and republished with permission. Sign up for InsideNoVa.com’s free email subscription today. Legislators and criminal rights advocates in Virginia are pushing to create a public defender office in Prince William County, Manassas a Maryland man pleads guilty to defrauding Veterans Affairs 12/17/2019 11:40pm • A Bowie, Maryland, man is facing federal time for false claims of helping veterans with disabilities. Sixty-three-year-old Francis Engles registered his company, Engles Security Training School, as a vendor with the Department of Veterans Affair’s Vocation Rehabilitation & Employment Progr Ex-Georgetown ANC acquitted in threat to shoot restaurant owner 12/13/2019 07:31am • Former Georgetown Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner Bill Starrels has been found not guilty of threatening to kill the owner of a Middle Eastern restaurant in D.C. Starrels had maintained his innocence since he was arrested for an incident that happened May 24, 2019, at Charcoal Town Hookah and Fatal stabbing of Army lieutenant at U.Md. ‘for no other reason’ but race, prosecutor says 12/11/2019 12:03pm • Richard Collins III was murdered in May 2017 at University of Maryland. Sean Urbanski is charged with first degree murder and a state hate crime in Collins' death. (U.S. Army, University of Maryland Police Department via AP) Prosecutors on Wednesday said that Sean Urbanski, who is white, confron As murder, hate crime trial begins, parents of murdered student seek justice, closure 12/11/2019 07:21am • The parents of a promising young man — days away from college graduation, and newly-commissioned in the U.S. Army — hope the murder and hate crime trial of Sean Urbanski will bring much-delayed justice and closure. Opening statements in Urbanski's trial are expected Wednesday morning, in Prin READ: Articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump 12/10/2019 12:56pm • House Democrats on Tuesday unveiled two articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump that will serve as the basis for action by the House Judiciary Committee. One accuses Trump of abuse of power, and the other accuses him of obstruction of Congress. The text of Associated Press, Apple name WTOP's '22 Hours' podcast among best of the year 12/09/2019 03:56pm • "22 Hours: An American Nightmare" was among 2019's most popular new shows in the Apple Podcast store. (Screenshot) WTOP's breakout true-crime podcast, 22 Hours: An American Nightmare, has earned top marks among 2019's most popular podcast lists from The Associated Press and Apple Podcasts. On Fairfax County police hope new sketches will help crack 2 cold cases from 2006 12/05/2019 12:55am • Police are asking for help in solving the deaths of Marion Newman, left, and Marion Marshall, right. The women lived two miles apart in Springfield, Virginia, and were killed in 2006. (Courtesy Fairfax County police) Police in Fairfax County, Virginia, are hoping new sketches created with advanc 'Someone knows something': Reward money grows in DC killing of 'violence interrupter' 11/30/2019 12:55pm • A Gaithersburg, Maryland-based victim's rights group is adding to the reward money for information in the killing of a D.C. man who worked to prevent violence in his community. Clarence Venable, 40, who worked as a "violence interrupter," was shot and killed after he left a community meeting abou New DC law greatly expands rights of sexual assault survivors 11/26/2019 05:30pm • Survivors of sexual assault have expanded rights in D.C. under a new measure signed into law Tuesday. Under the Sexual Assault Victims Rights Amendment Act of 2019, every hospital in D.C. will have advocates on hand to help sexual assault victims navigate what can be a confusing, stressful time. What's next for the impeachment inquiry over Thanksgiving week 11/26/2019 07:04am • It's Thanksgiving week and Congress is not in session, but the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump is still moving at full speed. In an indication that Democrats are moving quickly, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff wrote in a letter to House Alexandria's drug treatment court program likely to expand 11/25/2019 07:30pm • The city of Alexandria, Virginia, launched an adult drug treatment court in August, and those in charge are already looking for ways to expand it. The program is intended for people accused of nonviolent felonies who also have significant substance abuse problems. "In exchange for participatin