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Why the Fairfax County schools superintendent needs a bodyguard 08/06/2025 04:27pm • Fairfax County Public Schools is planning to hire a bodyguard for Superintendent Michelle Reid, a move the Virginia school district said is necessary to bolster security in response to recent "highly publicized tragic events around the country." The job posting, for a role called "executive prote Boyfriend of DC police officer killed in 1995 charged with her murder after walking free 30 years ago 08/06/2025 03:22pm • A D.C. police officer who co-workers described as "desperate" to get out of her relationship with a man with a violent history was killed in their shared White Oak, Maryland, apartment in 1995. Nearly 30 years after he walked free from police custody, that boyfriend has again been arrested and c Trump threatens federal takeover of DC. Can he do that on his own? 08/06/2025 02:50pm • For all the latest developments in Congress, follow WTOP Capitol Hill correspondent Mitchell Miller at Today on the Hill. President Donald Trump has again warned of a federal takeover of D.C. in the wake of an attack on a former "Department of Government Efficiency" staffer who tried to prote Trump responds after former 19-year-old DOGE employee beaten bloody in DC attempted carjacking 08/06/2025 05:51am • A 19-year-old ex-Department of Government Efficiency employee was violently beaten during an attempted carjacking in D.C. on Sunday. Now, President Donald Trump is once again threatening to "federalize" the District. D.C. Police confirmed to WTOP that around 3 a.m. Sunday, officers observed Edwar Who kept School Resource Officers and who didn’t? Who regrets it and who doesn’t? 08/06/2025 05:08am • The fiery debate over policing during the pandemic led many communities to reevaluate how their departments did the job — and led school systems around the country to think twice about and even reconsider the positioning of police officers inside of schools. School resource officers, or SROs, w WATCH: Under, around and through: Trucks get thorough inspections on Va. 28 by Fairfax Co. police 08/05/2025 07:53pm • Small cars and large trucks share many of the roadways in and around D.C. The Fairfax County Police Department's motor carrier safety unit spent Tuesday trying to make sure that trucks on the road were safe for all involved. Many trucks driving in the busy Virginia State Route 28 corridor were wa DOJ set to seek hate crime charges in killing of Israeli Embassy staffers: Sources 08/05/2025 05:30pm • (WASHINGTON) -- The Justice Department is set to seek hate crime charges and the death penalty against the alleged gunman who fatally shot two Israeli embassy staffers in Washington, D.C., two sources familiar with the matter confirmed to ABC News Wednesday. Prosecutors are poised to request that Catherine Hoggle, reindicted with murder of her 2 kids, deemed flight risk during first court appearance 08/05/2025 05:19pm • A Montgomery County, Maryland, judge said the mother of two missing children who was reindicted with their murders, was a flight risk, a danger to the community and denied her bond on Tuesday. After her release from a hospital last month, Catherine Hoggle, 38, was reindicted by a grand jury on t Where to find a National Night Out event in the DC area 08/05/2025 05:16am • The first Tuesday of August means there will most likely be a block party near you, hosted by area police and featuring a free night of fun and festivities. "It's where you bring your communities together to build stronger relationships with neighbors, like getting to know neighbors, connecting w Three people arrested as police pump the brakes on illegal car rallies in Maryland 08/04/2025 11:52pm • A Maryland police task force that's been cracking down on illegal car rallies busted up a large number of exhibitions planned for the first weekend of August. Eight rallies — two planned for Laurel and one each in Largo, Clinton, District Heights, Burtonsville, Lanham and Hyattsville — were National Park Service will restore, reinstall toppled statue of Confederate General in DC 08/04/2025 11:51pm • The National Park Service has announced it will restore and reinstall a Confederate statue in the District's Judiciary Square neighborhood. The statue of the Confederate General and Freemason Leader Albert Pike was brought down and burned in June 2020 by demonstrators amid protests in D.C. over t Mystery deepens after Fairfax County police ID body of boy found under bridge in 1972 08/04/2025 04:20pm • ï»¿ A 4-year-old boy who was found dead in Lorton, Virginia, more than 50 years ago, and whose name has remained a mystery, has finally been identified after a flood of tips, a series of DNA tests and decades of twists and turns. Fairfax County police Chief Kevin Davis announced the breakthrou First responders in Maryland reconnect with 12-year-old saved from a flash flood days earlier 08/04/2025 04:14am • First responders with Montgomery County, Maryland's Fire and Rescue Services got to have a special reunion Sunday. Members of the swift water rescue team met with the family of a 12-year-old boy who they had saved from flash flood waters just days earlier. On July 31, rescuers responded to Catherine Hoggle reindicted in Montgomery Co. in murders of children who disappeared in 2014 08/03/2025 05:50pm • Catherine Hoggle has been reindicted for two counts of first-degree murder in the disappearances of her children, 2-year-old Jacob and 3-year-old Sarah, who were last seen with their mother on Sept. 7, 2014, Hoggle's defense attorney tells WTOP. "She's been reindicted on two counts of murder, I c Crash on DC-295 leaves 1 dead, northbound lanes reopen after 10 hours 08/02/2025 10:05pm • One person is dead after an early morning crash Saturday, which closed off a portion of D.C. Route 295 for over 10 hours. The crash happened before 2:15 a.m. on the northbound lanes of DC-295 between the 11th Street bridge and Pennsylvania Avenue SE. In a news release, D.C. police said one per