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Fredericksburg fugitive arrested in Stafford Co. 01/01/2023 07:56am • A man charged with multiple felonies in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, was taken into custody in Stafford County, Virginia, on Thursday, deputies said. In a news release, the Stafford County Sheriff's Office said 35-year-old Melvin Anibal Duran Flores, of Fredericksburg, Virginia, was arrested on Environmental enforcement has fallen off under Biden, report says 12/26/2022 11:38am • This content was republished with permission from WTOP’s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for Maryland Matters’ free email subscription today. Federal environmental enforcement, as measured by Environmental Protection Agency civil cases closed against polluters, hit a two-decade low 2 DC officers convicted in fatal chase of scooter driver 12/22/2022 11:00am • Two D.C. police officers were found guilty Wednesday in the death of a man who was hit and killed during a police chase in 2020. Officer Terence Sutton was found guilty of second-degree murder. conspiracy to obstruct justice and obstruction of justice in the death of Karon Hylton-Brown, 20; Lt. A Fairfax police chief talks about Tysons arrest, domestic crimes and dept.'s future 12/21/2022 11:39pm • A Virginia police chief credited the "good police work" of members of Fairfax and Arlington county police departments, which led to the arrest of two suspects at a busy Virginia shopping mall. Fairfax County police Chief Kevin Davis told WTOP's "DMV Download" podcast that an off-duty Arlingto Multiple child sex abuse convictions announced in Prince George’s Co. 12/21/2022 02:44pm • Prosecutors announce several child sex abuse convictions in Prince George’s County, Maryland. Prosecutors in Prince George’s County announced multiple convictions in various cases involving child sex abuse this month. In some cases, victims have waited more than a decade for justice to be ser 16-year-old boy faces gun charges after Tysons Corner incident 12/19/2022 10:27pm • A teenage boy faces a long list of gun charges after an incident at Tysons Corner Center mall in Virginia. Police in Fairfax County chased who they believed were three men -- wanted for questioning in a robbery in Arlington County -- throughout parts of the mall on Sunday night. More L Leaders, experts weigh in on a plan to bring down gun violence in DC 12/15/2022 02:00pm • The surge in shootings in D.C. in recent years, particularly among young people, has inspired discussions, debates and ideas from various city leaders, but the numbers keep rising and the violence continues to impact families. On Thursday, D.C. Council member Charles Allen, who chairs the Judicia Annapolis man found guilty in stray-bullet killing of midshipman's mom 12/13/2022 06:37pm • After more than three hours of deliberation, a jury has found an Annapolis man guilty of firing the stray bullet that killed a U.S. Naval Academy midshipman’s mother last year. Angelo Harrod, 31, was found guilty of more than 10 charges, which included first- and second- degree murder. Prose Maryland politicians decry anti-Semitism, embrace Jewish group’s policy agenda 12/10/2022 03:34pm • This content was republished with permission from WTOP’s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for Maryland Matters’ free email subscription today. With reported acts of anti-Semitism on the rise in Maryland and across the nation, dozens of leading state politicians gathered at a synagog 16-year-old boy arrested in Benning Road Metro Station shooting 12/09/2022 09:53pm • A 16-year-old boy has been arrested and charged in the shooting at the Benning Road Metro station in Northeast D.C. that injured three people. Metro Transit Police said in a statement Friday that the teenager is being charged with attempted second-degree murder and carrying a gun without a licens Suspected serial killer pleads guilty in 1987 Fairfax Co. murder 12/08/2022 09:50pm • A convicted killer, who in 2021 told police he committed two unsolved murders in the D.C. region, has begun pleading guilty to those killings. After he was indicted by a grand jury in January, Charles Helem pleaded guilty to killing Eige Sober-Adler, 37, back in 1987 in Fairfax County, Virginia. Maryland court upholds murder conviction in 2017 stabbing of Black student 12/08/2022 08:45am • The man sentenced to life in prison for the 2017 stabbing of Army 2nd Lt. Richard Collins III on the campus of University of Maryland in College Park will stay in prison. Sean Urbanski's first-degree murder conviction was upheld by Maryland's Court of Special Appeals, in an opinion issued Wednesd DC Council gives initial OK to overhaul of DC’s troubled crime lab 12/07/2022 01:29pm • The D.C. Council has given the initial OK to a measure overhauling the District’s troubled crime lab. The Restoring Trust and Credibility to Forensic Sciences Act would restructure the D.C. Department of Forensic Sciences as an independent agency — removing it from the direct control of the m Son's coach ID'd as Florida mom's killer decades after her murder 12/04/2022 07:00am • ▶ Watch Video: The Betrayal of Linda Slaten On Sept. 4, 1981, Jeff Slaten, 15 and his brother Time, 12, were awakened by Lakeland, Florida, police and told their mother, Linda Slaten, had been murdered. Investigators collected a rape kit and lifted a palm print from the windowsill wher New report faults DC crime lab’s internal oversight — and prosecutors 12/02/2022 08:30pm • A new report from the D.C. Auditor says internal oversight practices at the troubled D.C. crime lab were broken and ineffective long before the lab lost its accreditation last year. But the report also finds fault with federal prosecutors and the D.C. Office of the Attorney General for going outs