Search

DC sees more gun violence, deadlier shootings in 2018 01/01/2019 05:23am • WASHINGTON — In D.C., 160 people died by homicide in 2018, up from 116 in 2017 — a spike of about 40 percent. In all, of the 534 people shot by another person in D.C. through mid-December, 23 percent ultimately died, according to statistics compiled by The Washington Post. That includes 12 d Baltimore police struggle to regain public trust 12/26/2018 12:55pm • BALTIMORE (AP) — On the streets of Baltimore, it's tough to find confidence that a police shield and city-issued dark blue uniform promises integrity and competence. With Maryland's biggest city already under court oversight to address longstanding patterns of unconstitutional policing, particu Jury recommends life in prison for man who rammed car into Charlottesville crowd, killing a woman 12/11/2018 12:19pm • CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — A jury recommended life in prison Tuesday for James Alex Fields for murdering Heather Heyer when he drove his car into a crowd of counter-protesters the day of a 2017 white nationalist rally tied to Confederate statues. Fields, 21, was convicted of first-degree murder an Reward raised to $10K to close 6 Maryland unsolved killings 12/08/2018 06:07am • WASHINGTON — Anne Arundel County police are hoping their community will help close six unsolved homicides. Community tips made all the difference in the arrest of an 18-year-old over the killing of an Annapolis father inside a model home last week, police said. They're hoping information from 7th person arrested in fatal shooting of 10-year-old Makiyah Wilson 12/07/2018 05:21pm • WASHINGTON -- Police have made another arrest linked to a fatal shooting in a Northeast D.C. neighborhood that killed 10-year-old Makiyah Wilson in July. Darrise Jeffers, 19, of Northwest D.C. is the seventh person charged in connection to the July 16 gang-motivated shooting that killed Wilson an Bowie woman admits to obstructing justice in boyfriend's murder case 11/30/2018 12:35pm • WASHINGTON — The Maryland girlfriend of a man who is serving a 15-year prison term for the July 2017 killing of a teenager in Georgetown pleaded guilty to conspiring to obstruct justice, the U.S. attorney announced Friday. Aminata Bah, 24, of Bowie, admitted in D.C. Superior Court to trying to Va. man pleads guilty to rape and murder of teen girl on Ramadan 11/28/2018 01:59pm • WASHINGTON — The Northern Virginia man accused of raping and killing a teen girl pleaded guilty to all eight counts Wednesday morning in Fairfax County court. Darwin Martinez-Torres, of Sterling, was charged with capital murder in the 2017 slaying of 17-year-old Nabra Hassanen, who was killed a 1 year after Bijan Ghaisar death, family says facts not enough: 'We want to know why' 11/27/2018 11:41am • WASHINGTON — For the family of a man who was shot by two U.S. Park Police officers, the wait for answers and accountability has stretched past the anniversary of his last breath. "My brother died a year ago today," said Negeen Ghaisar, as she stood outside the U.S. Justice Department with famil How Common Is It for Boys to Be Sexually Abused? 11/25/2018 07:00pm • Undoubtedly, sexual abuse is one of the most underreported crimes in our nation. According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, in 2016 more than 57,000 children reported being sexually abused, and that's on the low end since only about a third of cases are reported. What's more, ma Police: Guns used in Makiyah Wilson’s killing stashed in teen’s kitchen 11/21/2018 04:05pm • WASHINGTON — A 16-year-old boy arrested at his high school during class last week allegedly helped plan the shooting that killed a little girl. Charging documents are detailing the role the teen and another woman played in the deadly shooting. Four months to the day that 10-year-old Makiyah Wi Woman is 6th person charged in connection with 10-year-old's murder 11/20/2018 12:34pm • WASHINGTON — A woman is under arrest in connection with the killing of a 10-year-old girl. Quanisha Latoya Ramsuer, 25, was arrested Tuesday on a warrant and is charged with felony obstruction of justice, according to court records. She also goes by the name of Latoya Quanisha, according to a Commentary: Sri Lanka's Constitutional Crisis and the Threat to Its Democracy 11/07/2018 07:00pm • In late October, Sri Lanka President Maithripala Sirisena made four decisions that have unleashed a constitutional crisis: He and his coalition withdrew from the national unity government, summarily fired Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, replaced him with former President Mahinda Rajapaksa, and 14 years after woman was killed in DC, police make arrest in cold case 11/02/2018 05:44pm • WASHINGTON — A new set of eyes on the murder of a young woman in D.C. 14 years ago has led to an arrest this week. Tony Aiken, 47, was arrested Thursday and charged with second-degree murder while armed for the death of 23-year-old Kendra Mercedes Smith. On Sept. 6, 2004, D.C. police respond 'That sense of evil': Beltway snipers police chief on pipe bomb mailings 10/29/2018 04:17am • WASHINGTON — The recent pipe bombs never exploded, but the damage was severe, according to retired police chief Charles Moose, who 16 years ago this week fronted the effort to capture two snipers who murdered 10 people in Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Columbia. In October 2002, Mo Vigils planned in DC for 11 dead in Pittsburgh synagogue shooting 10/28/2018 12:31pm • WASHINGTON — In light of Saturday's shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue that killed 11 people, multiple groups throughout D.C. are holding vigils Sunday and Monday to mourn one of the deadliest attacks on Jewish people in U.S. history. The 20 minute-attack during a baby-naming ceremony at the T