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Emancipation Proclamation celebration amid New Year's revelry 12/31/2018 08:04am • WASHINGTON — As many get ready Monday to celebrate New Year's Eve by heading to parties around town, others will celebrate another way. In African-American churches across the country, members are gathering to welcome in the new year. The tradition — called Watch Night — dates back to w 87-year-old woman dies after being struck by car in Montgomery Co. 12/16/2018 10:10am • This article has been updated. WASHINGTON — A woman has died after being struck by a car on Friday afternoon in Montgomery County. Montgomery County police said Nancy Jean Soulen, 87, succumbed to her injuries on Sunday morning, two days after being hit by a car while crossing Darnestown Roa Arlington County police seek suspect in Rosslyn stabbing 12/09/2018 05:44am • WASHINGTON — Arlington County police are seeking public help in identifying a suspect in the stabbing of a woman near the Marine Corps Memorial in Rosslyn. Police said the malicious stabbing left a woman injured in the 1600 block of Fort Myer Drive around 6:45 p.m. on Saturday. Investigators de Pedestrian in Montgomery Co. struck by police cruiser 12/06/2018 11:42pm • WASHINGTON — A man is in critical condition after being hit by a police car Thursday night in Montgomery County, Maryland. Around 9:30 p.m., an officer driving a marked cruiser on Georgia and Arcola avenues hit a man who was walking in the road, Montgomery County police said. It was not far fro Manassas shooting ends in Prince William Co. crash after police chase 11/30/2018 04:02am • WASHINGTON — A shooting near a school in Manassas, Virginia, ended when the suspects crashed their car after a police chase Thursday afternoon. Manassas City police responded to the area of Signal Hill Road and Fairfview Avenue, which is near Osbourn High School just before 2 p.m. for a report Rush-hour delivery: Woman gives birth in DC traffic 11/29/2018 09:12pm • WASHINGTON — A woman delivered a baby in D.C. rush-hour traffic Thursday. It happened around 7 p.m. in the area of 17th and C streets in Northwest D.C. A D.C. Fire and EMS spokesman said that a 22-year-old woman went into labor while she was driving in the area by the Ellipse and the White H Police investigate bomb threat at historic Alexandria church 11/03/2018 10:15pm • WASHINGTON — A historic Alexandria, Virginia, church had a scare Saturday after a suspicious package was called in to police. It happened at the Alfred Street Baptist Church during evening worship. Alexandria police investigated a bomb threat after a call about a suspicious package. Police w Southbound lanes of Md. 355 reopen after pedestrian struck in Rockville 10/18/2018 08:48am • WASHINGTON — A man is in the hospital with life-threatening injuries after being struck by a car Thursday morning in Rockville, Maryland. Police say they received a call at 6:15 a.m. for a pedestrian-involved collision at the intersections of Hungerford Drive (Maryland Route 355) and Frederick DC police seek U-Haul in connection with shooting that wounded 2 women 10/05/2018 09:58am • WASHINGTON — Two women standing in front of a Chinese carryout in Southeast D.C. late Thursday night were injured in a shooting involving a U-Haul truck. The women were in front of the carryout at 306 Southern Avenue, near the border with Maryland, when the U-Haul truck drove past at about 11:1 Man rescued after a selfie turns nearly fatal in flood-threatened Potomac 10/01/2018 05:00am • WASHINGTON — A dangerous selfie nearly cost a man his life after he accidentally slipped into the raging Potomac River Sunday evening on the Maryland side of Great Falls. A number of bystanders had to pull the man out of the river, which is at a high level and moving violently due to recent hea Young girl hospitalized after NE DC shooting 09/29/2018 12:35am • WASHINGTON — A young girl has been hospitalized following a shooting in Northeast D.C. Friday night. The girl was conscious and breathing. D.C. police say the shooting occurred around 9:30 p.m. on the 1600 block of E street Northeast. An investigation is ongoing. Below is a map of wher Silver Spring man dies in head-on crash on Md. 4 in Upper Marlboro 09/12/2018 11:02am • WASHINGTON — A Silver Spring, Maryland, man is dead after an early-morning head-on crash Wednesday morning in Prince George's County. Donald Edward Keresztenyi, 64, was in a silver Ford Taurus driving southbound on Md. 4/Pennsylvania Avenue when he crossed the grass median and crashed head-on i Deputies search for suspect who shot guest at a Loudoun Co. party 09/02/2018 02:01am • WASHINGTON — Deputies are working to identify a suspect who shot one person at a party in Loudoun County on Saturday evening. It happened around 8:30 p.m. in Sterling, Virginia. The Loudoun Sheriff's Office said the male victim was at a private party at the Woodlands at Algonkian located on the 2 firetrucks crash while heading to apartment fire in Southeast DC 08/31/2018 10:41pm • WASHINGTON — Two firetrucks crashed into each other on the way to an apartment fire Friday night in Southeast D.C., injuring several firefighters. Around 6:45 p.m., the firetrucks collided on 15th and K streets in Southeast, not far from the blaze that broke out in the 1400 block of L Street. Man dead following Prince George's Co. shooting 08/01/2018 07:54am • WASHINGTON — Prince George's County police are investigating a shooting in Forestville, Maryland, that left one man dead. Police responded to reports of a shooting on Putnam Lane around 10:30 p.m. Tuesday. A man on the roadway had multiple gunshot wounds and was pronounced dead on the scene.