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What's the DC attorney general's role in helping to curb violence in the city? 01/16/2023 06:05pm • As D.C. residents call for local officials to do more to curb gun violence, the District's new attorney general is clarifying the role his office plays in prosecuting violent crimes. As he settles into his new role, D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb spoke to WTOP about the city's crime situatio Maryland's new governor Wes Moore on the power of second chances 01/15/2023 11:26am • ▶ Watch Video: Maryland Gov.-elect Wes Moore on the power of second chances "Politics is a very humbling business," said Wes Moore. "When we were first got into this race, I was polling at 1%!" Moore is a bestselling author, former Army captain, and now, as a first-time's-the-charm pol Eight DC area residents charged in drug conspiracy 01/14/2023 07:59pm • Eight D.C. area residents have been charged in a drug conspiracy involving cocaine, heroin, fentanyl and PCP, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia. Seven of those suspects were arrested on Wednesday. All eight men were charged with conspiracy to distribute and DC council member Pinto requests police bodycam footage from fatal teen shooting 01/14/2023 04:45pm • D.C. Council member Brooke Pinto has requested police body-worn camera footage captured when officers responded to the fatal shooting of 13-year-old Karon Blake on Jan. 7. Pinto told WTOP that she requested the video to make sure D.C. police followed all of the right procedures when they responde Loudoun Co. prosecutors will stop trying some misdemeanors 01/13/2023 12:46pm • Loudoun County, Virginia's top prosecutor says her office is "inundated" and will not participate in some misdemeanor cases, choosing to focus on violent and felony crimes. In a Dec. 30 memo to Loudoun County General District Court judges, Commonweath's Attorney Buta Biberaj said that as of Jan. Fairfax Co. Commonwealth's Attorney Steve Descano running for 2nd term 01/12/2023 05:13pm • Fairfax County's top prosecutor will seek a second term in office. Steve Descano, Commonwealth's Attorney for Fairfax County, Virginia, announced Thursday he would stand for re-election in 2024. The former federal prosecutor took office in 2020, toppling long-time incumbent Ray Morrogh on the hee DC council members move to override mayor's veto of revised criminal code 01/11/2023 06:06am • Mayor Muriel Bowser vetoed the overhaul of D.C.'s criminal code, and now there's a move in the council to override her veto. Bowser vetoed the Revised Criminal Code Act of 2022 earlier in January, after the D.C. Council unanimously passed the bill last November. More Local News More DC community demands answers following fatal shooting of 13-year-old boy 01/11/2023 05:33am • "We want justice. He was 13. He was a baby!" That's what a woman who identified herself as Karon Blake's aunt said Tuesday night at the Turkey Thicket Recreation Center in Northeast D.C., where hundreds of community members gathered to ask questions and demand answers from District leaders an Va. man pleads guilty to selling fake Percocet pills to teen, leading to fentanyl overdose 01/06/2023 01:24pm • A Woodbridge, Virginia, man pleaded guilty Thursday to selling counterfeit Perocet pills to a 14-year-old, who died of a fentanyl overdose days later. Police said Latae'veion Woods, 21, sold the pills to the teen last spring, according to court documents. More Crime News More Prince Prince George's Co. State's Attorney Aisha Braveboy enters second term 01/06/2023 07:33am • Aisha Braveboy was sworn in for a second term as the State’s Attorney for Prince George’s County, Maryland, on Thursday. Braveboy plans to build upon the work she's done as the Prince George’s County State’s Attorney in the courthouse, in the legislature and the community, according to a Man serving 2 life sentences in Virginia now faces Prince George's Co. charge in 2002 slaying 01/06/2023 05:22am • A Virginia man, already sentenced twice to life sentences without the possibility of parole, has been moved to a Maryland jail cell as he prepares to admit his guilt in a two-decade-old Prince George’s County murder. Shortly before Christmas, 53-year-old Charles Helem was transferred out of Vir Man charged with killing 3-year-old girl, shooting 4 teens in Va. was wanted on DC warrant 01/05/2023 06:28pm • A man who is facing charges in the death of a 3-year-old girl and shooting four teenagers, including his girlfriend, in their Prince William County, Virginia, home was wanted on an outstanding warrant in D.C. Kenyatta Oglesby, 20, was arrested Wednesday shortly after a 911 caller described him an Md. new AG Anthony Brown seeks more authority to investigate civil rights violations, police misconduct 01/03/2023 10:30pm • Former representative and lieutenant governor Anthony Brown was sworn in Tuesday as Maryland's first Black attorney general, saying he plans to seek greater authority to investigate civil rights violations and police misconduct. "Make no mistake — my agenda is ambitious," Brown said during an a Mayor and DC Council face off over yearslong effort to modernize criminal code 01/03/2023 08:32pm • There may not be enough judges to handle the strain a new law could put on D.C.'s judicial system. That is one of the reasons why D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser said she would veto an overhaul of the city's criminal code. But the council is firing back — with plans to override her veto. Mo Md. A.G. Frosh says he will miss being able to haul the ‘bad guys’ into court 01/03/2023 11:28am • This content was republished with permission from WTOP’s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for Maryland Matters’ free email subscription today. For most of his 36 years in public office, Brian Frosh has wielded outsized influence — first as chairman of the state Senate’s Judicial