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Officer-involved shooting in Alexandria is 3rd in DC region in 2 days 09/13/2019 05:00pm • A man is in the hospital after being injured in an officer-involved shooting in Alexandria, Virginia, around 4 a.m. Friday. Police were looking into a burglary in an apartment building on North Beauregard Street when they found a suspect with a firearm. Two officers shot and wounded the suspec 2nd man dies after car fleeing police crashes on I-95 09/13/2019 11:01am • A multivehicle crash on I-95 in Maryland closed lanes on Thursday, Sept. 12, 2019. (NBC Washington/Brad Freitas) The passenger of a car that was fleeing police when it crashed Thursday afternoon on Interstate 95 in Laurel, Maryland, has died, police say. The driver of the car was pronounced dead GW Parkway blocked for about 6 hours after fatal single-vehicle crash 09/13/2019 07:30am • A person is dead after a single-vehicle crash that closed the George Washington Parkway for hours early Friday morning. Police said the car was going south on the George Washington Parkway at around 1:15 a.m. when it went off the road near Stratford Lane. The car hit a tree and caught fire. Th Owners of Bowie airport face controversy over property plans — no matter what they do 09/13/2019 06:42am • For months now, the family that owns Freeway Airport in Bowie, Maryland, has been working on a plan to sell the property, close the air strip and get out of the aviation business. The Prince George’s County Council held a hearing on their plan to do just that days before a near-tragic crash tha PHOTOS: ‘World’s Smallest Car Museum’ returns to National Mall 09/13/2019 04:28am • What’s been dubbed “the world’s smallest car museum” is back on the National Mall, bringing a pair of vehicles to D.C. that are one-of-kind pieces of American history. 'Seems like yesterday': 5 years later, remembering murdered U.Va. student Hannah Graham 09/13/2019 04:28am • UVa. student Hannah Graham disappeared five years ago Friday. (Photo Courtesy Charlottesville, Va. Police Department) Former Albemarle County, Virginia, prosecutor Denise Lunsford didn't know the victim's name at the time, but she had the incident marked on her calendar: "I remember hearing ther Red Line shutdown this weekend, events block streets 09/13/2019 04:00am • The Red Line will be shut down Saturday and Sunday between Friendship Heights and Grosvenor-Strathmore. "Punch list" work on the sealant Metro put around the tunnel near Medical Center as part of efforts to keep water out means Bethesda and Medical Center stations will be closed. Shuttle buses ar Presto’s college football picks: Prime-time pain 09/13/2019 02:57am • The problem with the mid-September schedule is that while the networks are looking for compelling matchups on a weekly basis, most schools nowadays try to build bowl eligibility insurance by bringing at least one FCS school or lower-tier FBS program to campus (and in a few cases, sometimes one of ea Today in History: Sept. 13 09/13/2019 12:00am • Today is Friday, Sept. 13, the 256th day of 2019. There are 109 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Sept. 13, 2001, two days after the 9/11 terror attacks, the first few jetliners returned to the nation's skies, but several major airports remained closed and others opened o Police investigating officer-involved shooting in Prince George's County 09/12/2019 09:19pm • Prince George's County police are looking for a suspect following a shooting involving officers and a car chase that ended in Howard County, Maryland. The suspect is 20-year-old Alpha Mansaray, of Savage, Maryland, and police believe that he is involved in the distribution of drugs, police Chief I-95 southbound lanes reopen after fatal crash near Laurel 09/12/2019 08:30pm • One person has died after a crash Thursday afternoon on Interstate 95 that shut down part of the highway near Maryland Route 216 in the Laurel area, police said. It began, Howard County police said, when officers were called to the 9100 block of All Saints Road just before 2:30 p.m. for the repor Montgomery Co. Council member repeats support for school bus camera program 09/12/2019 06:25pm • A Montgomery County Council committee voted to approve a supplemental appropriation for the county school system of $3.7 million. It's part of the arrangement that funnels, to Montgomery County Public Schools, revenues from tickets issued for passing stopped school buses. In turn, the schools pay 'Incredibly lucky': No major injuries after small plane crashes into car, lands on US 50 09/12/2019 12:48pm • A small plane that had just taken off from Freeway Airport in Bowie, Maryland, struck a car traveling along U.S. 50 and crash-landed on the highway late Thursday morning. But remarkably, the crash did not lead to any major injuries, authorities said. Two people who were inside the car that wa Famous for its fried chicken, another Royal Farms coming to Frederick 09/12/2019 10:35am • Developers will break ground next month on a new Royal Farms location at the Gateway East Plaza on Monocacy Boulevard near Interstate 70 in Frederick, Maryland. (Courtesy KLNB) Convenience store chain Royal Farms, which enjoys a cultlike following for its fresh fried chicken, will open a third l From ‘damaged,’ to determined: Women find hope, healing after homelessness 09/12/2019 01:50am • Three years ago, Paula Buggage sat on the edge of her hotel-room bed and counted her last bit of money. It wasn’t much — definitely not enough to keep the room for another night. “You keep counting your money as though it’s going to somehow magically turn into a lot more. It doesn’t