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Another weekend of deadly shootings leaves DC officials calling for action 08/07/2023 05:29am • A D.C. Council member said the city could be doing more to curb crime after another deadly weekend of shootings. Ward 1 Council member Brianne Nadeau said multiple shootings on Saturday -- including incidents on U Street and Adams Morgan -- highlight ongoing public safety issues the District face Bowie man sentenced to 50 years for 2020 killing of woman shot in home while reading Bible 08/05/2023 11:10am • A Maryland man has been sentenced to 50 years in prison for the 2020 New Year’s Day killing of a woman in her home who was reading her Bible at the time. On Friday, Prince George's County State’s Attorney Aisha Braveboy announced that 27-year-old Sammie Warren was sentenced for the Jan. 1, 20 Florida woman sentenced for girlfriend's 2021 BW Parkway death 08/04/2023 10:43pm • A Florida woman has been sentenced to nine years in federal prison for the death of her girlfriend, who police found dead on the side of the Baltimore-Washington Parkway in November 2021. Janice Martina Mason, 30, of Melbourne, Florida, was convicted in May of this year for the 2021 voluntary man Experts join WTOP to discuss Trump’s indictment on election interference charges 08/04/2023 12:09am • Former President Donald Trump was indicted with attempting to overturn the results of the 2020 election. On Thursday, he pleaded not guilty to the federal charges. What happens next? WTOP spoke to multiple political reporters that broke down what the case could entail. 'Sad day for the country' 'Brazen and absurd' mall shooting sends DC man behind bars for 25 years 08/03/2023 10:35pm • A D.C. man who had hopes of moving him and his four sons out of the region will instead spend the next 25 years behind bars after he was sentenced for a murder described as both "brazen" and "absurd" by a Prince George's County, Maryland, judge. In August of 2022, 20-year-old Darrion Herring was Suspect in crime spree that left 1 man, 2 dogs dead now faces 28-count indictment 07/27/2023 09:28pm • A D.C. man, who was already facing a long list of charges in the District, was hit with more criminal charges Thursday for a string of deadly carjackings, as prosecutors in Prince George's County, Maryland, announced that a grand jury had handed down a 28-count indictment against him. Daeyon Ross Drugs, car chase and dog bite: New York man arrested in Loudoun Co. 07/25/2023 10:23am • A Rochester, New York, man was arrested in Loudoun County, Virginia, over the weekend after a law enforcement pursuit that left four people injured, authorities said. The Loudoun County Sheriff's Office said deputies responded to a report of two adults, who were passed out inside a vehicle at a S Prince George's Co. man found guilty of 2021 double homicide 07/22/2023 08:33pm • A man from Upper Marlboro, Maryland, was found guilty Friday of murdering two young men in Northwest D.C. in July 2021, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office. Jalen Browne, 22, walked around the 100 block of Q Street NW in disguise, laying in wait to shoot at six young men in the parking lot of Prince George's Co. man who shot and killed popular Md. boxer sentenced to 80 years in prison 07/20/2023 10:23pm • The man who shot and killed a popular Maryland boxer in front of his family on Christmas Eve in 2021 was sentenced to 80 years behind bars Thursday afternoon. Markell Lewis, 25, of Clinton, Maryland, admitted to police that he shot Danny Kelly Jr., in what prosecutors said was a road rage inciden Members of Philadelphia 'high-end theft crew' arrested in Fairfax County 07/19/2023 11:24pm • Police said that they have caught members of a "high-end theft crew" who took items from a department store in Virginia without paying and then scattered when confronted by police — with one person found hiding in a dumpster. It happened on July 13, when a loss prevention team alerted police th Man who killed ex's friend in 'jealous rage' outside Md. hotel to spend 50 years in prison 07/18/2023 04:25am • A man who prosecutors said chased his ex-girlfriend's friend to a field next to a Maryland hotel and killed him in a "jealous rage" will spend 50 years in prison. A Montgomery County Circuit Court judge sentenced Kyle Noble, 30, in the death of Efrain Arias, 31. Noble was sentenced to 60 years wi Former Prince George's Co. correctional officer pleads guilty in drug-smuggling case 07/15/2023 08:50pm • A former correctional officer in Prince George's County, Maryland, has pleaded guilty to charges related to smuggling and distributing drugs to a prisoner she was in a relationship with. Danielle Dominique Smith, 34, of Waldorf, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent t Can the new Prince George’s Co. schools boss get kids back in class? 07/14/2023 03:24pm • New Prince George’s County Public Schools Superintendent Millard House II has been on the job for about two weeks. At this point, he’ll admit he doesn’t know all the challenges, nor does he have all the solutions to the challenges he does know about. But he knows there are challenges at hand. Arrest made in cold-case killing of Md. woman after more than four decades 07/13/2023 04:04pm • The Charles County Sheriff's Office in Maryland said detectives have arrested a suspect in a 44-year-old case of rape and homicide. In August of 1979, 28-year-old Vickie Lynn Belk was found dead of a gunshot wound in a wooded area of Suitland. Though police at the time were unable to solve her mu 'We are in a state of emergency' — DC's push to pass an emergency crime bill 07/11/2023 04:44am • The mayor of D.C. and several members of the council are putting their support behind an emergency crime bill that is aimed at curbing a spike in violent crimes in the nation’s capital. The legislation was introduced by Ward 2 council member Brooke Pinto. “We are in a state of emergency right