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Hear from the candidates on the special election ballot for the Ward 8 DC Council seat 07/11/2025 09:07am • On Friday, Ward 8 residents will begin casting their ballots to select their next D.C. Council member. Among the candidates is Trayon White, the council member whose expulsion led to the special election. White was expelled from office as he awaited trial on a federal bribery charge. He was arres 3-year-old girl dies following holiday weekend shooting in Southeast DC 07/08/2025 09:43am • A 3-year-old girl shot while sitting in a parked car early Saturday morning in Southeast died Monday, D.C. police said. D.C. police said Honesty Cheadle, of Southeast, suffered a gunshot wound to the "upper body," while seated in a parked car with members of her family in the 1000 block of 14th S ‘They should be arrested’: Youngkin holds firm on support for ICE raids at Virginia courthouses 07/03/2025 11:08am • Gov. Glenn Youngkin on Wednesday doubled down on the controversial use of courthouse arrests by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers, brushing off criticism that some of the individuals detained were simply in court to pay fines for traffic infractions and had no criminal record. Md. man wrongfully convicted of murder speaks out after $2.75 million compensation 07/03/2025 07:15am • During a Maryland Public Works meeting Wednesday, Langhorne spoke out about how difficult life can be after a long prison sentence — even for those who are fully exonerated. "There's no savings, you know, there's no preparation," said James Langhorne. Langhorne was convicted of murder in a B Man arrested in shooting that injured Maryland celebrity chef Tobias Dorzon 06/30/2025 07:05pm • A man has been arrested and charged in connection with a November shooting and robbery that left former NFL player and celebrity chef Tobias Dorzon injured. Devin Spivey, 21, was arrested Friday at a home in Laurel, Maryland, and faces several charges related to the shooting and robbery of a woma Jury finds Stafford County man guilty in 1986 murder of Jacqueline Lard 06/26/2025 05:21pm • A jury on Thursday found a 67-year-old Stafford County man guilty in the 1986 rape and murder of a Drug Enforcement Administration agent's wife working late one night at a real estate office in Stafford County. "It took the efforts of numerous law enforcement agencies, lab technicians and prosecu Va. campaign finance worker pleads guilty to embezzling $840K in campaign funds 06/23/2025 04:23pm • An Alexandria woman plead guilty on Monday to embezzling hundreds of thousands of dollars from the campaigns of congressional candidates that prosecutors said she used for personal expenses, including foreign travel and chartered yacht tours. Katherine Buchanan, 59, had worked as a political camp Man sentenced to 25 years in prison for attempted 2023 mass shooting at Prince William Co. church 06/19/2025 06:23am • A man from Virginia was sentenced to 25 years in prison for posting online threats and then traveling to a church with the intent to carry out a mass shooting in 2023, according to a press release from the U.S. Department of Justice. Rui Jiang, 36, of Fairfax, was convicted by a jury in March aft US says Kilmar Abrego Garcia's Maryland lawsuit over deportation is moot, must be dismissed 06/18/2025 07:54am • The Department of Justice says Kilmar Abrego Garcia's Maryland lawsuit against several U.S. government agency heads must be dismissed because the wrongly deported Salvadoran national has been returned to the United States. In a Monday motion to dismiss as moot, the government said Abrego Garc Prison education and mental health get focus at Bowie State University conference 06/10/2025 06:36pm • The hallways of a conference center at Maryland's Bowie State University on Tuesday were lined with tables packed with information on community services, education, jobs, and even transit information. The 2025 Maryland Statewide Diversion, Reentry, and Justice-Involved Conference, hosted by the u Maryland Gov. Wes Moore joins WTOP to talk ICE raids, National Guard control 06/09/2025 07:00pm • Maryland Gov. Wes Moore joined WTOP live on the air Monday afternoon to talk about a wide range of topics in the headlines. WTOP anchors Shawn Anderson and Anne Kramer asked the governor about the recent ICE raids, governor control of the National Guard, a look at why he was featured on the broa Maryland Supreme Court upholds ban on gun possession in some non-felony cases 06/09/2025 09:58am • The Maryland Supreme Court upheld a state law banning gun possession by people who have been sentenced to two years or more in prison, calling it comparable to a ban on gun possession by felons, whether the underlying crime was a felony or not. Despite a string of recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling US Capitol Police selects next chief to be sworn in this month 06/05/2025 04:57am • U.S. Capitol Police has named Michael Sullivan as its next chief, the department announced Wednesday. Sean Gallagher is currently serving as the acting chief until Sullivan, who most recently served as interim chief of the Phoenix Police Department, is sworn in on June 30. Capitol police mov Virginia man faces charges after 2 separate abduction attempts near Metro stations within an hour 06/02/2025 09:47am • A Fairfax County, Virginia, man is facing charges after Alexandria police arrested him following what they believe were two separate attempted abductions of women, near different Metro stations, Friday night. A woman "in her mid-30s" had exited the Braddock Metro station Friday around 9:40 p.m., Teen arrested in New York is charged in fatal July shooting inside The Mall in Columbia 05/29/2025 04:07pm • An 18-year-old man was arrested Thursday in Brooklyn, New York, and charged with murder in connection to a fatal shooting inside The Mall in Columbia in Howard County, Maryland, in July. William "Junior" Marshall III is charged with first-degree murder and firearms offenses in the killing of 17-y