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DC community calls for transparency, remembers 13-year-old shot by city employee 01/15/2023 02:12am • With a cold wind blowing, family, friends and neighbors of Karon Blake memorialized the 13-year-old who was shot to death last weekend by a homeowner in D.C.'s Brookland neighborhood. In an emotional display, Blake's little sister dissolved into tears while speaking. His friend Marco stepped to t 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 Va. Senate Democrats push for new safety bills to prioritize gun violence prevention 01/14/2023 02:52pm • Virginia Senate Democrats are pushing for several gun safety bills in the 2023 General Assembly session after a series of shootings across the state in recent months. "We're here to talk about gun violence epidemic and solutions that the Senate Democrats are putting forward this session, from ba Metro to enhance operator training, citing investigation into error 01/14/2023 08:29am • Metro said Friday it will begin enhancing training measures for its operators following several mishaps on its fleet's 7000-series trains. During an ongoing internal investigation into a red signal overrun last month, Metro found that recent training classes didn't follow the��proper procedure of Montgomery Co. man arrested in shooting that left car and restaurant damaged 01/13/2023 11:06pm • A Silver Spring, Maryland, man has been arrested and charged in an October shooting that damaged a car and nearby restaurant. Keshawn Simpson, 26, was arrested on Jan. 10, weeks after fleeing an officer who was attempting to make a traffic stop and serve out a warrant for Simpson's arrest. Sim All options on the table for popular 'Bethesda Streetery' ��� even the end of it 01/13/2023 08:24pm • The pandemic helped popularize the Norfolk Avenue "streetery," a roadway turned outdoor dining space, in Bethesda's Woodmont Triangle. Now, county transportation experts are asking the public what should become of it three years later. Even in January, two blocks are closed for people to dine al Spice Suite opens new Langdon Park store, aims to empower Black women entrepreneurs 01/13/2023 08:07pm • When Angel Gregorio closed on the property at 2201 Channing St. in Northeast D.C., it was the home of a tow truck company and little was happening in the industrial neighborhood. It was "ugly and gross," she said. But after buying the commercial area in December 2021, the entrepreneur envisioned Review: Tom Hanks is Forrest 'Grump' in somber but life-affirming 'A Man Called Otto' 01/13/2023 12:30pm • In 2008, Clint Eastwood played a "get off of my lawn" curmudgeon in "Gran Torino." Now, it's Tom Hanks' turn in "A Man Called Otto" (a.k.a. Forrest "Grump") a movie that is often depressing but ultimately pays off as life affirming as it opens in theaters Friday. Based on Fredrik Backman's DC teacher dies after Los Angeles police encounter 01/13/2023 04:32am • A 10th grade teacher at Digital Pioneers Academy in D.C. died in Los Angeles following cardiac arrest hours after being shocked with a Taser multiple times by police. On Tuesday, Jan. 3, while visiting family in California, Keenan Anderson, 31, was stopped by L.A. police officers after a car acci DC police release photos of Metrobus shooting suspects 01/12/2023 02:58pm • Police in D.C. have released photos of two suspects in a shooting that wounded three people, including two young children, outside a Metrobus in Northwest D.C. Wednesday afternoon. A man who was also wounded in the gunfire is also now under arrest after police say he boarded the bus armed with kn Toad the Wet Sprocket frontman Glen Phillips plays Union Stage at The Wharf in DC 01/12/2023 04:49am • Hear our full conversation on my podcast ���Beyond the Fame.��� He's best known as the lead singer of the alternative-rock band��Toad the Wet Sprocket. Next week, Glen Phillips hits Union Stage in D.C. on Wednesday, Jan. 18, playing Sprocket's biggest hits and stuff from his new solo album 2 juveniles dead, 1 injured in Fairfax Station crash 01/11/2023 05:53pm • A crash claimed the lives of two teenage girls and seriously injured another in Fairfax Station, Virginia, late Tuesday ��� marking Fairfax County's first non-pedestrian traffic deaths of the new year. Fairfax County officers were called to the 7400 block of Lee Chapel Road just before 9:30 p.m. Mayor: Man who shot and killed 13-year-old is DC government employee 01/11/2023 04:24pm • A man shot and killed 13-year-old Karon Blake in the District���s Brookland neighborhood on Jan. 7, 2023. (Courtesy Sean Long) Members of a Northeast D.C. community are still demanding the name of a man who shot and killed a 13-year-old boy accused of breaking into cars. Mayor Muriel Bowser reve 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 DC police chief calls inaccurate information swirling over shooting of 13-year-old 'reckless' 01/10/2023 05:30pm • A man shoot and killed 13-year-old Karon Blake in the District���s Brookland neighborhood on Saturday morning. (Courtesy NBC Washington) Hours before a scheduled community meeting, the head of D.C. police gave an impassioned statement to address what he called the "spreading of inaccurate inform