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Smoke bomb, fugitive discovered during traffic stop in Northern Virginia 11/03/2024 08:22am • Police in Alexandria, Virginia, said officers discovered both a wanted fugitive and a commercial-grade smoke bomb during a Saturday afternoon traffic stop on King Street. Alexandria police said officers were conducting a "felony traffic stop of a vehicle" in the 1600 block of King Street around 1 The 10 Senate seats most likely to flip in 2024 11/03/2024 04:28am • (CNN) — Senate control is for grabs Tuesday. And although Republicans are well positioned to win the majority, Democrats cannot be counted out entirely. That’s because their well-funded candidates have consistently overperformed the top of the ticket in polling of many of the most important r Howard Co. father who built go-kart track on property is at the center of controversy over whether he can keep it 11/02/2024 05:25pm • A father in Howard County, Maryland, built a go-kart track on his private property for his son. But permits and noise are now at the center of the controversy over whether he can keep it. "I just didn't think it was going to be an issue," said Chris Siperko, who lives on 11 acres in Highland. Maryland woman found guilty of killing, dismembering and burning mother's body parts on a grill 11/01/2024 06:50pm • The woman who prosecutors say killed and dismembered her mother last year was found guilty by a Prince George's County, Maryland, jury on Friday. Jurors spent just over an hour in deliberations before returning to the courtroom and finding Candace Craig, 46, guilty of first and second-degree murd 3 arrested in shooting death of Prince William Co. man found handcuffed in backseat of vehicle 11/01/2024 09:55am • Three people have been arrested and charged in the shooting death of a man found handcuffed in the backseat of a car in Triangle, Virginia, on Sunday. Prince William County police said Jason Thomas Blake, 43, of Woodbridge, was shot multiple times in the 18500 block of Triangle Street after he wa Fairfax Co. moving forward with pilot program to lower speed limits on at least 3 roads 10/31/2024 05:45pm • Fairfax County, Virginia, is planning to lower the speed limit on at least three roads as part of a pilot program aimed at helping change driver behavior. The county's transportation department is working through which roads to consider. Vanessa Holt, with the department's traffic engineering sec WATCH: What au pair in double homicide plot told Fairfax Co. police happened on day of the killings  10/31/2024 03:07pm • The au pair who pleaded guilty in a double homicide plot claimed an unknown man "started stabbing" the wife and the husband asked her to shoot the man, according to body camera video that has been released from the day of the killings.  The footage depicts au pair Juliana Peres Magalhaes' reacti Driver shot by Va. state troopers after vehicle chase on I-95 10/31/2024 09:31am • The driver of a carjacked vehicle has died after being shot by Virginia state troopers on Wednesday night after a long car chase on Interstate 95 southbound in Prince William County. At around 10:15 p.m., a state trooper tracked down a vehicle that the U.S. Parkway Police had reported in connecti 1 hurt after car plummets from 5th floor of parking garage in Montgomery Co. 10/30/2024 11:56am • A car plummeted from the fifth floor of a parking garage in Montgomery County, Maryland, leaving its driver with injuries Wednesday morning, according to emergency responders. The vehicle fell around 40 feet from a parking garage at the Barlow Building on Wisconsin Avenue near South Park Avenue, More local restrooms adding adult-size changing tables to help people with disabilities 10/29/2024 08:23pm • ADAIR, Iowa — The blue-and-white highway sign for the eastbound rest stop near here displays more than the standard icon of a person in a wheelchair, indicating facilities are accessible to people who can’t walk. The sign also shows a person standing behind a horizontal rectangle, preparing to p A satirical tiki torch statue pops up in DC days before the presidential election 10/29/2024 11:04am • One week before the 2024 U.S. presidential election, a statue has popped up in downtown D.C. that takes a swing at former President Donald Trump and his comments made after the 2017 "Unite The Right" rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. The roughly 8-foot-tall statue shows a bronze hand clasping Montgomery Co. crime stats show downward trends, but continued problems 10/28/2024 08:51pm • Overall crime has decreased "significantly" in Montgomery County, Maryland, according to crime statistics presented to the county council's Public Safety Committee last week. According to the data for the first three quarters of this year, the number of homicides and rapes has dropped and the num Car Review: Dodge Hornet R/T Plus is a small crossover that plugs-in, but can still have fun 10/28/2024 05:48am • The Dodge Hornet R/T Plus is a small plug-in hybrid that’s economical to operate and offers over 30 miles of EV driving. But it is still fun to drive and enjoys taking the back road. The next era for Dodge launches with an old name, the Hornet. This new Hornet is much different from the 1960s orig DC adds more red light cameras to catch drivers 10/27/2024 03:30pm • D.C. continues to expand its automated traffic enforcement system. The D.C. Department of Transportation has added new red light cameras at South Capitol Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue SE, Southern Avenue and Wheeler Road SE and Rhode Island Avenue and North Capitol Street NW. The ad Former Prince George’s Co. officer claims union stopped her from suing department for retaliation 10/25/2024 06:26am • A former Prince George’s County police internal affairs officer has filed a federal lawsuit against her union, after she claimed an attorney for the union prevented her from going after the department on her own for what she called "a case of retaliation against her." With the goal of clearing