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Residents voice concerns over Montgomery County policing 06/07/2019 04:15am • As Montgomery County, Maryland, continues its search for the next police chief, some residents shared their visions for what they would like to see in the new chief at a Thursday meeting on community policing. Reverend Barry Moultrie with the Mt. Calvary Baptist Church in Rockville believes t Today in History: June 7 06/07/2019 12:00am • Today is Friday, June 7, the 158th day of 2019. There are 207 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On June 7, 1998, in a crime that shocked the nation, James Byrd Jr., a 49-year-old black man, was hooked by a chain to a pickup truck and dragged to his death in Jasper, Texas. Car struck by gunfire near Justice Department 06/06/2019 10:40am • Police said a car was struck by gunfire Thursday morning as it was stopped at an intersection on Pennsylvania Avenue in Northwest D.C.'s Penn Quarter neighborhood. The shooting happened at around 2 a.m. on 9th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest. Initially, Pennsylvania Avenue between 7th Man arrested 20 years after woman attacked in Fairfax County 05/30/2019 06:53pm • Twenty years after a suspect forced a 25-year-old woman at knife point into a vacant business in Burke, Virginia, police said they've now made an arrest in the case. Fairfax County police arrested 67-year-old Allen Lewis Buracker at work in Hyattsville, Maryland, on Thursday morning. He is awaiti DC attorney general wants input on possible early release for drug lord Rayful Edmond 05/30/2019 02:46pm • D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine announced Thursday that his office has been appointed by a federal court to represent the views of District residents in the resentencing of Rayful Edmond — the drug kingpin who ran a major cocaine ring in Washington in the 1980s. Edmond, 54, is serving life wi Human rights violator living in Alexandria lied to get US citizenship, gets 3 years in federal prison 05/25/2019 02:07pm • An Ethiopian man who had been living in Alexandria, Virginia, has been sentenced to three years in federal prison for lying about participating in human rights violations during the naturalization process to obtain his U.S. citizenship. Mergia Negussie Habteyes, 58, was arrested and charged last No to foam containers, yes to chilled beer sales: Md. bills pass without Hogan signature 05/24/2019 06:59pm • Dozens of Maryland bills are becoming law without Gov. Larry Hogan's signature, among them one that allows Montgomery County-owned liquor stores to sell chilled beer or wine but only if that beer or wine is flowing into a growler or refillable container. Other laws that did not get Hogan's signat Md. closely watching court case that could impact future of state lotteries and revenues 05/22/2019 09:16am • This content was republished with permission from WTOP’s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for Maryland Matters’ free email subscription today. The attention of lottery directors across the country is turned to a courthouse in New Hampshire, where a federal judge could issue a decisi DC police disproportionately target black people for minor violations: study 05/15/2019 06:00am • Black residents in the District are disproportionately arrested for minor violations, despite making up less than half of the population, according to a study by two watchdog groups. Black people make up 47% of D.C.'s population but accounted for 86% of all arrests in the District — ten times t Montgomery Co. community rally, march planned in response to officer using racial slur 05/13/2019 09:12am • Community activists in Montgomery County, Maryland, are organizing a rally in Silver Spring Monday over an incident that was captured on camera in which a police officer used a racial slur while questioning four African American men. The Silver Spring Justice Coalition announced that it will hol New Md. law still leaves thousands of rape kits untested 05/07/2019 10:44am • This content was republished with permission from WTOP’s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for Maryland Matters’ free email subscription today. A law requiring law enforcement agencies to submit qualified rape kits for testing within 30 days of receipt will become effective in J Outdoor movie guide 2019 05/07/2019 01:07am • "Moana," "Black Panther," "Back to the Future" and "Wonder Woman" are among the movies screening outdoors this summer. (WTOP collage via YouTube) This warm weather means that outdoor movie season is officially here! So which movies can you catch under the stars this spring and summer? Man extradited from Ethiopia, charged with 2 Fairfax Co. homicides 05/06/2019 01:13pm • A 24-year-old man is back in Fairfax County, Virginia, to face charges in two separate 2016 homicides. Fairfax County police, FBI and Justice Department authorities jointly announced Monday morning that Yohannes Nessibu had been extradited from Ethiopia, where he allegedly fled after the killings DC man found guilty in 3rd trial of 2015 Ballou High School student killing 05/03/2019 07:59pm • After juries were unable to reach a verdict in two previous trials, a third jury has found a D.C. man guilty of murdering a Ballou High School student in 2015. Prosecutors say 26-year-old Derryck Decuir killed 15-year-old Malek Mercer after the teen snickered at him at a D.C. bus stop. Accordi VIDEO: Fairfax Co. police dispute social media claims woman was slammed to ground during arrest 05/01/2019 05:50am • After three people were arrested at Tysons Corner Center last Thursday, Fairfax County police released surveillance footage from inside the Virginia store to dispute a social media post that claims one of the arrested people was slammed to the ground.  Police said it all happened on Thursday, A