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Testimony: Children bitten, tripped at Minnieland 02/26/2014 05:05pm • MANASSAS, Va. - A co-worker of two Minnieland Academy staffers charged with abusing children at the center and an investigator described retaliatory and physical abuse of the toddlers they were supposed to care for. Kierra Nicole Spriggs, 24, and Sarah A. Jordan, 29, arrested in November, appear Leggett touts crime drop over two county executive terms 02/25/2014 01:35pm • County Executive Isiah Leggett on Tuesday touted double digit drops in serious crime and all crime during his seven years in office, four months out from his contested primary race. Leggett, Montgomery County Police Chief Thomas Manger, State’s Attorney John McCarthy and Council President Cra Investigators seek information about crimes related to Welch in other states 02/11/2014 05:17pm • WASHINGTON - Montgomery County police released this list of locations and dates where Lloyd Lee Welch Jr. has been known to reside since the early 1970s. Police and the FBI ask anyone who may have come into contact with Welch to contact investigators, who believe he may have committed other crimes 10 things to know for Monday 02/10/2014 03:16am • The Associated Press Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about Monday: 1. RANDOM JUSTICE IN MILITARY SEX ABUSE CASES An AP analysis of more than 1,000 sex crimes reports at military bases in Japan finds that most of the accused didn't ser Year-old murder vexes Prince George's police 01/19/2014 05:09am • WASHINGTON -- A year ago, 23-year-old Antonio Delonte Ross was shot and left for dead on the street where he grew up. Prince George's County Police are back on the scene now - the 1600 block of Tulip Avenue in District Heights - to see if they can solve his murder, which occurred in the evenin Crime Report: West Coast Prostitutes Arrested on the Pike 01/15/2014 04:05pm • Two alleged prostitutes from California were arrested by Arlington police early Friday morning. The pair was arrested at the Sheraton hotel on Columbia Pike, after police discovered online prostitution ads on the website Backpage.com, according Arlington County Police Department spokesman Dustin Ste NOVA Legal Beat: Lying to Get Into the Military? 01/15/2014 03:00pm • Editor’s Note: This sponsored column is written by Mathew B. Tully of Tully Rinckey PLLC, an Arlington firm that specializes in federal employment and labor law, security clearance proceedings, and military law. Q. A few years ago I lied to get into the military. If the military som Crime Report: Christmas and New Year’s Eve 01/03/2014 01:45pm • The Arlington County Police Department has issued its crime report for the two weeks ending Dec. 31. A few days before Christmas, some Grinch stole a fruit basket (and a gift card) from a Virginia Square apartment mail room. BURGLARY, 131219008, 3500 block of N. Washington Boulevard. At 7:30 am Woman, 41, shot to death in Springfield 01/02/2014 08:55am • WASHINGTON - A 41-year-old Springfield woman is dead of an apparent gunshot wound, and Fairfax County police are investigating her death as suspicious. Police say they responded around 6 p.m. New Year's Day to a report of shots fired at a home in the 7100 block of Healy Drive in Springfield. Pol Crime Report: Armed Robbery in Hotel Room 12/12/2013 10:00am • Last Wednesday, an armed man robbed a woman at gunpoint in her room at the Sheraton hotel on Columbia Pike. From this week’s crime report: ROBBERY, 900 block of S. Orme Street. At 10:17 am on December 4, an unknown suspect allegedly robbed a female at gunpoint in her hotel room. The suspect is Md. woman sentenced for hair weave theft, altercation (Video) 12/03/2013 01:07am • WASHINGTON - A Maryland woman who got into an altercation when she tried to steal hair weaves from a Montgomery County store will spend five years in jail, NBC 4 reports. Yvonne Williams, 19, tried to rob Gaithersburg's Town Beauty Supply store of about $850 in hair weaves in September 2012 and g Man sentenced to life in prison in Va. activist's death 11/01/2013 12:04pm • UPPER MARLBORO, Md. - A man convicted of killing a northern Virginia activist and throwing his body in a Fort Washington well has been sentenced to life in prison without parole, plus 120 years. Tyrone Lewis, 28, was convicted in September of murder and other charges in the death of Lenwood Ha Justice delayed 40 years but not denied at Kloman sentencing 10/19/2013 03:19am • WASHINGTON -- Christopher Kloman got away with his crimes for more than 40 years but was sentenced late Friday afternoon to 43 years in prison when the 74-year-old McLean man faced five of his victims in Fairfax County Circuit Court. The women, now in their 50s, spoke out about how Kloman moleste Human trafficking task force receives $1 million for battle 10/12/2013 04:56am • WASHINGTON -- The reality is that sex trafficking of teens is taking place in the D.C. area. But the Northern Virginia Task Force, which battles human trafficking. has received a $1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Justice to tackle it. "One of the biggest problems we see here in Norther Va. boy to serve 1 yr probation for animal cruelty conviction 10/10/2013 04:05pm • WASHINGTON - A 13-year-old Loudoun County boy will serve a year on supervised probation for an animal cruelty conviction. The boy was charged with the crime for kicking his family's pet dog to death. He was sentenced Wednesday. Loudoun County Animal Services says the boy and his younger brother k