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Counterterrorism officials long feared IEDs would make way to US shores 04/16/2013 06:59am • Long before the gruesome bombings at the Boston marathon, U.S. counterterrorism officials feared that the improvised explosive devices used so effectively by insurgents on the Iraq and Afghanistan battlefields might one day make their way to U.S. shores.And as authorities sift the crime scene for cl Community celebrates freedom after drug dealers ousted 04/13/2013 06:01pm • DAMASCUS, Md. - Residents at the Damascus Gardens apartment complex had had enough. For years, they lived in buildings infested with drug dealers, and not much was done about it. "There was a lot of violence and fights, especially in the summertime when it got hot," says Ronnie Johnson. He's liv Missing 5-year-old Va. boy, mother found in Las Vegas 04/11/2013 11:47am • ␎ Cameron Serafin is missing. (Courtesy of Fairfax County Police) UPDATE: Wednesday- 4/17/2013, 6:23pm ET WASHINGTON - A missing Fairfax County boy and his mother have been found in the Las Vegas area, police say. Cameron and Rebecca Serafin were Homeland agents failed to stop ATF, Fast & Furious guns from crossing border 04/02/2013 11:53pm • Fifteen months before the Fast & Furious gun scandal was unmasked in public, Homeland Security agents along the Arizona border recognized that their colleagues at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives were allowing illegal guns to flow across the border to Mexican drug gangs in vio Mont. Co. police offer $10,000 reward in fatal hit-and-run 02/27/2013 05:33am • UPDATE: Friday - 3/1/2013, 4:25 pm ET Police are offering a $10,000 reward to anyone with information that leads to an arrest in the fatal hit-and-run. Tipsters can call Crime Solvers at 1-866-411-8477. EARLIER: Thursday - 2/28/2013, 4:02pm ET WASHINGTON - Montgomery County police have releas Baker: 'We need to do more' about teen deaths 02/20/2013 04:02pm • Nick Iannelli, wtop.com WASHINGTON - Senseless and outrageous is how Prince George's County Executive Rushern Baker describes recent violence sweeping across county neighborhoods. In just six months, six students in the county's public schools system have been killed in separate incidents. All t Food Trucks Claim Victory as Judge Tosses Loitering Charge 02/04/2013 02:55pm • Food truck owners are declaring victory after a successful showdown over a street vending ordinance in Arlington General District Court. Currently, under Arlington County Code 30-9, food trucks are prohibited from vending on a public street for more than an hour in one spot. The enforcement of that Author Brad Meltzer discusses his latest D.C.-based thriller 'The Fifth Assassin' (VIDEO) 01/23/2013 02:04pm • Tommy Griffiths, wtop.com WASHINGTON - My friend, best-selling author Brad Meltzer, just finished another book based in D.C. called "The Fifth Assassin." Meltzer is the author of "The Inner Circle," "The Book of Fate," "The Tenth Justice," and "The Zero Game" and recently spent a few hours a Local businessman opens up about pardon after 40 years 01/20/2013 05:14am • Thomas Warren, wtop.com WASHINGTON - In 1973 the state of North Carolina put then 24-year-old Benjamin Chavis and the rest of the so-called Wilmington 10 in prison for a crime they didn't commit. After four decades, and the deaths of four of the group members, the group's innocence was restore Independent’s Day: Solitary Confinement 01/16/2013 03:00pm • Independent’s Day is a weekly opinion column by published on Wednesdays. The views and opinions expressed in the column are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of ARLnow.com. “Torture is always wrong.” That’s not just a bumper sticker sitting on my de Kurd protest in Paris demands justice in killings 01/12/2013 12:16pm • Thousands of Kurds from across Europe descended upon Paris on Saturday, demanding justice for three activists shot dead in the French capital. Turkey's leader, meanwhile, demanded to know why one of the victims _ a founder of a Kurdish rebel group _ had been granted asylum in France. Crowds Obama administration, Congress quietly let school security funds lapse 12/14/2012 10:34pm • Beneath the expressions of grief, sorrow and disbelief over the Connecticut school massacre lies an uneasy truth in Washington: over the last few years the Obama administration and Congress quietly let federal funding for several key school security programs lapse in the name of budget savings.Gover Crime Report: Malicious Wounding at Marymount 12/13/2012 02:30pm • A fight between two students at Marymount University landed one of them in jail and the other in the hospital. According to police, early Sunday morning a 19-year-old student hit another student in the head with a bottle during a physical altercation, causing a laceration. From this week’s Arl Big Brawl At Bailey’s in Ballston 12/10/2012 03:20pm • Arlington police responded to a large fight at Bailey’s Pub (4238 Wilson Blvd) in the Ballston Common Mall last week. It’s not clear what started the brawl, but it quickly grew in size and prompted a large police response. Six people were arrested and several people were taken to Virgini Pipe bomb suspect's blog forecasts alleged attacks 11/01/2012 08:54am • Neal Augenstein, wtop.com STAFFORD COUNTY, Va. - Blog postings by the suspect for three recent pipe bombing attacks in Stafford County and Fredericksburg depict a man disgusted by the legal system and willing to "commit some crimes" and "have some fun." WTOP has learned investigators with the B