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Virginia man arrested for allegedly assaulting officers during Jan. 6 Capitol riot 04/14/2024 06:02am • A Virginia man has been arrested on felony and misdemeanor charges in connection to the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot. Darl McDorman, 53, of Waynesboro, is accused of assaulting law enforcement officers during the attempted insurrection, according to a U.S. Attorney's Office for D.C. news release. Concerns about crime in downtown DC? Talk to the people wearing red shirts 04/09/2024 01:49pm • More help is coming in downtown D.C. for residents and business owners who have questions or concerns about crime. The DowntownDC Business Improvement District (BID) announced Tuesday that it was adding a team of people who will be walking through the downtown area on a regular basis, checking on DC opens new 'Real Time Crime Center.' What's in it? And how can it help cut crime? 04/08/2024 03:35pm • A criminal case is rarely solved as fast as it happens on TV. Police can spend hours or even days waiting for get their hands on surveillance footage, and sifting through databases can be slow and tedious — there’s no magic push of a button that gives investigators all the information they need. Limiting plea agreements, increasing consequences: How DC's mayor wants to handle absenteeism 04/04/2024 09:12pm • D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser has unveiled a plan to address truancy and absenteeism and put in place more serious consequences for middle schoolers caught with drugs or guns on school grounds. The proposal, called the "Utilizing Partnerships, Local Interventions for Truancy and Safety Amendment Act o WATCH: Fairfax Co. police 'narrowly escaped line-of-duty death' in chaotic 'street takeover,' chief says 04/03/2024 10:00pm • WATCH: Four ppl facing criminal charges in this chaotic incident over the weekend in Springfield, Virginia. Fairfax County police chief says he thinks they “narrowly escaped a line of duty death.” He says people tried to drag an officer out of her car. @WTOP pic.twitter.com/NXv8Ozmzsz — Nic 'More work to do' to combat crime in downtown Silver Spring, Montgomery Co. officials say 04/03/2024 08:00pm • Officials in Montgomery County, Maryland, held a news conference Wednesday on their efforts to cut crime in downtown Silver Spring, emphasizing that progress is being made despite challenges that include police department staffing levels. Noting that crime for the first quarter of the current yea 'No room for human error': Prince William Co. to launch automated public safety assessment tool 03/31/2024 12:57pm • When a person is charged with a crime, it can take months before a trial begins — now, Prince William County in Virginia is preparing to launch a new tool to help judges determine if the person can safely be released back into the community in the meantime. The Public Safety Assessment (PSA Man gets 6 years for lying to investigators about unsolved murder of U.Md. football coach's son 03/29/2024 04:44pm • A Gaithersburg, Maryland, man has been sentenced to six years in prison for lying to a federal grand jury in connection with the unsolved murder of Meiko Locksley, son of University of Maryland head football coach Mike Locksley. John Willie Kennedy Jr., who goes by "Cognac" and "Yak," pleaded gui Falls Church man accused of plotting mass shooting at church in Haymarket indicted on federal hate crime 03/29/2024 10:51am • A Falls Church man accused of bringing a gun, ammo and knives to a Haymarket church last September with the intent of bringing "injury and death" to the congregation has now been indicted for a federal hate crime. On Wednesday, a federal jury returned an indictment against Rui Jiang, 35, charging 34 years later, DC woman charged with killing boyfriend and interfering with the investigation 03/28/2024 03:17pm • The girlfriend of a 34-year-old D.C. man who was shot and killed in 1990 has been arrested and charged in the cold case, police announced Thursday. Sheila Brown, now 66 and living in Annapolis, Maryland, told police she was about to run errands on the afternoon of March 28, 1990, when two men kno Woman charged with kidnapping, murder in disappearance of DC woman who went missing last year 03/27/2024 03:11pm • A woman was arrested Tuesday after being indicted on murder charges in connection with the disappearance of a D.C. woman, who was reported missing in October 2023. Chyna Crawford, 25, of Southwest, was last seen around 10 p.m. on Oct. 23 in the 4000 block of South Capitol Street. A missing person Maryland 'Jane Doe' homicide victim from 1998 identified as DC woman 03/23/2024 03:29pm • The body of a homicide victim found in a Charles County, Maryland, field in 1998 has now been identified as a woman from Southeast D.C., according to a news release. LaQuanda Denise "Niecey" Williams of Southeast D.C. was 31 years old when her decomposing body was discovered in an overgrown Bel A Checking in on DC's sweeping anti-crime bill 10 days later 03/22/2024 05:16am • It's been 10 days since D.C.'s mayor signed the sweeping "Secure D.C." anti-crime bill into law. The bill strengthens gun penalties, cracks down on organized theft and expands the definition of carjacking, among other things. And while 10 days isn't a long time, we're curious about how things Family of teen killed by US Park Police presses for answers on the anniversary of his death 03/20/2024 10:35am • One year after 17-year-old Dalaneo Martin was shot and killed by U.S. Park Police, his family and their attorneys called on the Department of Justice for answers in the investigation into the D.C. teen's death. On the morning of March 18, 2023, Martin was found sleeping in a stolen car in a North 'It gives us hope': DC high schoolers impress attorneys at 25th annual Youth Law Fair 03/16/2024 04:58pm • High school students at the D.C. Superior Court on Saturday got to see the court system in a different, more positive way during the 25th annual Youth Law Fair. By participating as jurors, witnesses, attorneys, defendants and even the judge in mock trials, the students could see what it is actual