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Maryland General Assembly session hits halfway point 03/04/2022 09:58pm • Maryland's lawmaking session is at the halfway point, and Maryland Senate President Bill Ferguson offered an assessment of how things are going so far. "Things get much more intense" once the session gets past the 40-day point, Ferguson told reporters Friday. One of the questions Ferguson answ Is 'The Batman' the franchise's best? 03/04/2022 12:27am • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJmEaYsLYB8 Hear our full conversation on my podcast “Beyond the Fame.” Flash the bat signal immediately -- a new Batman movie hits theaters this weekend! D.C. movie critic Travis Hopson of Punch Drunk Critics claims it's the best one yet. "I was t Former corrections officer, 2 inmates plead guilty to racketeering in Jessup prison scheme 03/03/2022 12:13pm • Four people — a former corrections officer, two inmates and an outside "facilitator" — pleaded guilty to federal racketeering conspiracy at Maryland's maximum-security Jessup Correctional Institution, the Justice Department said Wednesday. The scheme involved bribes to correctional officers t Hogan's daughter launches state's attorney bid in St. Mary's Co. 03/03/2022 10:29am • LEONARDTOWN, Md. — The daughter of Maryland’s governor, a veteran prosecutor, has launched a bid to become St. Mary’s County’s top prosecutor. Jaymi Sterling announced Wednesday that she will run for state’s attorney in the Southern Maryland county she calls home. The Republican, who Activists sue DC police over its surveillance of social media 03/03/2022 04:01am • A joint lawsuit has been filed against D.C. police by activists who hope to uncover its surveillance practices and techniques on social media. The two groups, the Brennan Center for Justice and Data for Black Lives, said in a release Wednesday that the lawsuit aims to improve transparency and acc Jury selection resumes for 1st trial over Capitol riot 03/01/2022 09:41am • WASHINGTON (AP) — Jury selection resumed on Tuesday in the first trial for one of the hundreds of Donald Trump supporters charged with storming the U.S. Capitol last year. The first Capitol riot defendant to be tried is Guy Wesley Reffitt, a Texas man charged with bringing a gun onto Capitol gr State coordinates resources as intimate partner killings hit 14-year high in Maryland 02/25/2022 06:25pm • More people died at the hands of their partner in Maryland last year than in the last 14 years, and the state is working to prevent domestic violence by banding together resources from all 16 counties. In 2021, 58 Marylanders were killed by their intimate partner. That is the highest since 2007, Cannabis legalization legislation headed to the Senate 02/25/2022 03:59pm • This content was republished with permission from WTOP’s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for Maryland Matters’ free email subscription today. The Maryland House of Delegates passed a bill Friday that would allow voters to decide whether to legalize cannabis. If House Bill 1, sp Disruptive school behavior would not lead to arrests under Md. bill 02/25/2022 03:55am • A proposed bill that would no longer classify disruptive behavior by students as a criminal offense passed the Maryland House of Delegates Thursday. Under existing Maryland law, "disrupting school activities" can result in a student being arrested. According to the bill's sponsor, Del. Sheila Rut Top 15 fugitive wanted for DC gender-reveal party shooting arrested in Florida 02/23/2022 05:40pm • U.S. Marshals have caught up with one of their Top 15 fugitives -- a D.C. man accused of killing a man by firing into a crowd at a gender-reveal party last year. A tip came into the Capital Area Task Force, leading the marshals to flag their counterparts in West Palm Beach, Florida. Those marshal Northern Virginia program aims to help crime survivors, keep youth out of criminal justice system 02/22/2022 09:37pm • A new program in Northern Virginia aims to help survivors of crime, and keep young people out of the criminal justice system. The Office of the Commonwealth's Attorney for Arlington County and the City of Falls Church launched "Heart of Safety." Under this program, both the person who was harmed 'An executive order is not an indictment:' Former AG on Miyares investigation of Loudoun Co. schools 02/22/2022 03:59pm • On the day he was sworn in as Virginia's attorney general, Jason Miyares tweeted a news release that he was opening up an investigation into Loudoun County Public Schools, because, in his words, the school system "covered up a sexual assault on school grounds for political gain, leading to an additi Man who pointed gun at Delaware rally gets 4 years in prison 02/22/2022 11:05am • WILMINGTON, Del. — The Delaware Department of Justice says a Dover man who pointed a gun at counterprotesters during a 2020 campaign rally for a Republican U.S. Senate candidate has been sentenced to four years in prison. Michael Hastings was convicted in September of first-degree reckless enda Study: DC gun crimes involve ‘small number’ of people 02/20/2022 12:32pm • A study finds that suspects in violent crime in the District share a lot of characteristics. The National Institute for Criminal Justice Reform looked at the numbers for homicides and nonfatal shooting in D.C. in 2019 and 2020, and found that “most gun violence is tightly concentrated on a smal Virginia man gets life in 1991 rapes near East Falls Church Metro 02/16/2022 12:03pm • A Virginia man was sentenced to life in prison in Arlington County Circuit Court for a series of 1991 cold-case rapes. The four attacks on women near the East Falls Church Metro station in January, February and March 1991. Michael F. Thomson, 65, of Montross, got life in prison on one count of