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2 dead, 1 seriously injured after car hits tree in Prince George's Co. 11/28/2021 11:58am • A driver struck a tree in Prince George's County, Maryland, early Sunday morning killing the driver and one passenger and leaving another passenger seriously injured. The male driver was traveling southbound and crashed on the 1400 block of Ritchie Road, in Capitol Heights police said. Officers r Arlington Signature Theatre director discusses special relationship with Sondheim 11/27/2021 11:05pm • Prolific and celebrated Broadway composer Stephen Sondheim, 91, had an enormous impact on theatres around the world. In the D.C. area, the impact of his death was visible at Signature Theatre in Arlington, Virginia. After his death on Friday, WTOP spoke with Matthew Gardiner, the artistic directo 1 dead after single-vehicle crash in Prince George's Co. 11/27/2021 05:42pm • A man is dead after his car left the roadway on Temple Hill Road in Prince George's County, Maryland, then crashed into a tree, police said. The cause of the crash remains under investigation, but Prince George's County police said it happened around 12:15 p.m. near the intersection of Temple Hil Woman dies after being struck by vehicle on GW Parkway south of Key Bridge 11/27/2021 12:21pm • A pedestrian was struck and killed by a vehicle on the George Washington Parkway near the Key Bridge early Saturday morning, according to police. Shortly before 3 a.m., U.S. Park Police responded to a report of a pedestrian struck by a vehicle in the southbound lanes of the GW Parkway south of th Woman dies after crashing car into tree in Prince George's Co. 11/27/2021 07:42am • A woman died after crashing her car into a tree in Forestville, Maryland, on Thursday, Prince George's County police said. Lakina Jackson, 32, of District Heights was driving southbound on Pennsylvania Avenue near Forestville Road when she crashed, according to police. More Maryland Ne Man who fled DC police following officer-involved shooting arrested 11/27/2021 06:23am • Police arrested a man who fled on foot early Saturday morning before 6:15 a.m. after reports of an aggravated assault and shots fired ended in an officer-involved shooting on Chester Street in D.C. Donald Willis, Jr., 49, of Southeast, D.C., was arrested Saturday and charged with assault with a d Shoppers return to DC-area malls in droves 11/26/2021 09:34pm • At shopping malls around the D.C. region, people were shopping like it was Black Friday 2019 — before the coronavirus and its impact figured into the everyday lives of Americans. At Tysons Corner Center in Tysons, Virginia, people inched through blocks of car traffic to reach the garages. Meanw Former Montgomery County police chief who was public face of Beltway Sniper investigation dies at 68 11/26/2021 04:34pm • Former Montgomery County Police Chief Charles Moose, who became the public face of the investigation into the Beltway Sniper rampage that terrorized the D.C. region, has died. Moose, who left his post in 2003, was 68, according to a statement from the department. Moose's wife posted a message On a chilly, windy day, volunteers hand out coats in DC 11/26/2021 03:37pm • On a day when the wind whipped across a parking lot outside a Southeast D.C. church and temperatures dropped into the 30s, members of the D.C. Knights of Columbus distributed coats it bought for its annual coat drive. Volunteer Anthony Diallo was the first person to greet visitors in the driveway Missing 10-year-old found after vehicle theft and hours of wandering in Montgomery Co. 11/26/2021 05:32am • Montgomery County police announced early Friday morning that the 10-year-old from Hyattsville, Maryland, who went missing for several hours when the vehicle she was in was stolen, has been found "safe and unharmed." Police said the child went missing just before 11 p.m. on Thanksgiving Day; autho 'People are still hungry' -- Maryland lawmakers call for more efforts to address hunger 11/25/2021 04:11pm • Two Maryland lawmakers and a local county executive are saying the state needs to do more to address a rise in hunger caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. "People are still hungry," Sen. Katie Fry Hester told WTOP. "When I go by our local food bank or the Miller Branch Library on Saturdays, there's a Montgomery Co. exec says he's committed to 'permanent changes' in cutting Silver Spring crime 11/24/2021 03:53pm • After dozens of drivers swarmed downtown Silver Spring, Maryland, during a rowdy car rally last weekend, Montgomery County Executive Marc Elrich said he is committed to significant efforts to curb crime in the area. "Having residents feel unsafe is simply not acceptable. No one should go to downt Tennessee woman pleads guilty in crash that killed Gaithersburg couple 11/24/2021 01:06pm • A Tennessee woman has pleaded guilty in a crash that killed a Gaithersburg, Maryland, couple in March. Rebecca Vo, of Nashville, pleaded guilty Tuesday to two charges of gross negligent manslaughter by vehicle in the deaths of Pran and Pamela Sharma, the office of Montgomery County State’s Atto BW Parkway reopens after woman struck and killed 11/24/2021 08:14am • A woman is dead after she was struck by a car on the Baltimore-Washington Parkway in Maryland on Wednesday morning. It happened around 5:45 a.m. on the northbound lanes, just north of MD-197 near Laurel. All  northbound lanes in that area were shut down but reopened at around 8:30 a.m. U.S. P Plea agreement reached for Fauquier Co. teen charged with shooting mother, brother 11/23/2021 11:16pm • A plea agreement has been reached for Levi Norwood, who was 17 when he allegedly shot and killed his mother, Jennifer, and 6-year-old brother Wyatt, and wounded his father, in February 2020, in their Midland, Virginia home. Online court records show the plea will be entered Nov. 30 in Fauquier Co