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Closing racial wealth gap depends on opportunities for black workers, expert says 06/15/2020 04:24am • In the years since the 2014 protests over the killing of unarmed black men in Florida, Missouri and New York, public opinion on policing and racial equity has shifted rapidly. Corporate America has joined protesters in condemning the death of George Floyd at the hands of police and calling for acti 2 pedestrians killed in separate accidents during busy night for police 06/09/2020 08:19am • Two pedestrians who were struck and killed in separate accidents in D.C. and Prince George's County during a night of crashes that kept police and firefighters busy. D.C. police said a pedestrian was struck and killed by driver in the 7000 block of Piney Branch Road in Northwest at 9:17 p.m. Mond Car, tractor-trailer involved in fiery crash on Baltimore Beltway 06/03/2020 11:02am • A crash involving a tractor-trailer and a car shut down the Baltimore Beltway at Interstate 95 in Arbutus, Maryland, during the Wednesday morning commute. According to Maryland State Police, the car was trapped under the tractor-trailer and the driver had to be cut out of the vehicle. The driv Power strips plugged into each other cause Gaithersburg high-rise fire 06/03/2020 06:34am • Two people are in the hospital and others had to be evacuated after a fire in one of the oldest high-rises in Maryland. The fire started after someone plugged three power strips into each other and then plugged them into a lightweight extension cord, causing $30,000 in damage, according to Montgo Confederate group decides to remove Alexandria statue early 06/02/2020 04:34pm • Though Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam's bill allowing organizations to remove confederate statues across the state doesn't go into effect until July 1, The United Daughters of the Confederacy have decided to get ahead of the process. The organization notified the city of Alexandria on Monday that it 6 vehicles found burning in Germantown; arson suspected 05/19/2020 09:40am • A destroyed vehicle is seen in the vicinity of 19351 Circle Gate Drive in Germantown, Maryland, after a series of suspected arsons on May 19, 2020. (Courtesy MCFRS/Pete Piringer) Montgomery County, Maryland, fire officials are opening an arson investigation after six cars were found burning in t Man arrested after car chase, barricade in DC home 05/18/2020 09:41am • A man is in custody after a car chase through D.C. and Maryland early Monday that ended with him firing at pursuing officers and then barricading himself in a home, police say. D.C. and Maryland police were pursuing the man on inbound Pennsylvania Avenue, in Southeast D.C. at around 2 a.m. Monday ‘Long time coming’: Montgomery Co. School Board approves LGBT studies course 05/13/2020 11:29am • Starting next spring, some high school students in Montgomery County, Maryland, will be able to sign up for a new LGBTQ studies course, after the Board of Education Tuesday unanimously approved the creation of the new course. Montgomery County’s LGBTQ studies course is believed to be the first Man dead after being struck by car in Manassas hit-and-run 05/06/2020 09:35am • A man is died after being struck by a car Wednesday morning in Manassas, Virginia. Prince William County police arrived at the scene around 5 a.m. Police say the hit-and-run happened when a silver sedan was making a turn onto Balls Ford Road at Sudley Road when the vehicle struck a man who was Man killed in GW Parkway crash 05/04/2020 12:01pm • A man is dead after crashing his vehicle on the George Washington Parkway in Virginia during Monday morning's commute. U.S. Park Police said he was traveling southbound on the parkway around 8 a.m. when he hit the guardrail under the Virginia Route 123/Chain Bridge Road overpass. He died at th 1 dead, 1 critical in DC crash on Pennsylvania Ave. 04/28/2020 11:00am • One person is dead and another is in critical condition after a crash in D.C. Tuesday morning. D.C. Fire and EMS was alerted to the overturned vehicle around 9:30 a.m. on Pennsylvania Avenue and Fort Davis Drive in Southeast. Authorities closed Pennsylvania Avenue for several hours to investig 1 dead after hit-and-run in Annandale 04/21/2020 07:44pm • A pedestrian is dead following a Tuesday morning hit-and-run in Fairfax County, Virginia. Police responded to the accident on Royce Court and Hummer Road in Annandale near the community park just after 6 a.m. Angel Paz Lopez of Alexandria was walking across the southbound lanes of Hummer when Fires at Wheaton Catholic school being investigated as arson 04/08/2020 10:07am • Fire investigators say arson was likely to blame for a fire at The Avalon School, a private catholic school for boys in Wheaton, Maryland. Montgomery County firefighters responded to an alarm going off at the school, located on Claridge Road, shortly after midnight Wednesday. They spotted several Power outages after storms roll through DC region 04/08/2020 06:48am • Fast-moving storms left thousands without electricity as wires and trees were downed in the D.C. area Wednesday morning. In Fairfax County, Virginia, more than 400 Dominion Energy customers are without power. PEPCO is reporting nearly 3 hundred customers without power in upper northwest D.C. n 2 killed, 1 hurt in single-car crash in Howard County 03/22/2020 12:50pm • Two people were killed and another has critical injuries in a crash in Howard, County, Maryland. It happened Sunday morning around 2:30 a.m. in Columbia. Police said that a Mazda 3 was headed north on Snowden River Parkway near Good Hunters Ride when it struck a tree in the median. The driv