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Road closures, Metro changes accompany July Fourth weekend in DC 07/02/2025 11:44am • Watch it live on WTOP.com: "A Capitol Fourth"- the star-spangled concert on the National Mall followed by an Independence Day fireworks show. The dazzling lineup starts 8 p.m. on Friday, July 4.�� Ringing in the Fourth of July in D.C. is a lot more fun once you're at your destination, and if Fairfax Co. inches closer to demolition of old Clifton Elementary School 07/01/2025 08:42pm • A Northern Virginia elementary school that hasn���t been used in over a decade is now closer to being demolished. Clifton Elementary School, which sits on both Fairfax County and Town of Clifton property, hasn���t been open in 15 years. It was deemed uninhabitable when it closed, but ���no one di DC police, advocates of the missing speak out over social media misinformation 06/30/2025 07:25pm • Some viral social media posts in recent days claim D.C. is seeing a dramatic spike in cases involving missing women. Some claim dozens of new cases have been seen in just a matter of days and that the cases are not getting the attention they deserve. Advocates for the missing and D.C. police Man arrested in shooting that injured Maryland celebrity chef Tobias Dorzon 06/30/2025 07:05pm • A man has been arrested and charged in connection with a November shooting and robbery that left former NFL player and celebrity chef Tobias Dorzon injured. Devin Spivey, 21, was arrested Friday at a home in Laurel, Maryland, and faces several charges related to the shooting and robbery of a woma Loose windmill blade causes delays for Maryland commuters 06/30/2025 08:40am • Lanes have reopened along Interstate 70 near Hagerstown, Maryland, after a tractor-trailer hauling a windmill blade overturned Monday morning. Maryland State Troopers from the Hagerstown Barrack responded to westbound I-70 at Exit 26 (Interstate 81) around 5:15 a.m. for an overturned tractor-trai 3-year-old child and woman hurt in Gaithersburg shooting 06/28/2025 03:45pm • Montgomery County police are investigating a shooting that happened in Gaithersburg, Maryland, on Friday that injured a woman and a child. Officers responded to a report of a shooting in the 8300 block of McCullough Lane around 8:50 p.m. At the scene, the police found several items of evidence. Road work, traffic shift on Capital Beltway in Tysons-McLean area 06/27/2025 04:25pm • Drivers traveling on the Capital Beltway in the Tysons and McLean areas will be met with some road work over the weekend. Here's what you need to know. Starting Friday night, Virginia Department of Transportation crews plan the first of two traffic shifts on all four lanes on southbound Interstat Bethesda shopping center responds to a rash of vehicle break-ins 06/27/2025 07:13am • Police in Montgomery County are trying to solve a series of vehicle break-ins and robberies that have occurred over the last several days at the Westbard Square Shopping Center in Bethesda. Police say cars parked in the garage or along the 5400 block of Westbard Avenue have been broken into a Jury finds Stafford County man guilty in 1986 murder of Jacqueline Lard 06/26/2025 05:21pm • A jury on Thursday found a 67-year-old Stafford County man guilty in the 1986 rape and murder of a Drug Enforcement Administration agent's wife working late one night at a real estate office in Stafford County. "It took the efforts of numerous law enforcement agencies, lab technicians and prosecu Fairfax Co. schools planning to make weapon detectors permanent 06/26/2025 04:17am • All Fairfax County high schools will have a permanent weapons detection system in place starting in the fall. Virginia���s largest school division launched a pilot program last spring, choosing to put the technology on different high school campuses on various days. But calls for extra securit Not a golden idea: NYC man pleads guilty in Montgomery Co. gold bar scam 06/25/2025 01:27pm • A 24-year-old Brooklyn man pleaded guilty Monday to trying to scam an older Bethesda, Maryland, couple out of their gold bars. According to the Maryland State's Attorney's Office, Yongxian Huang picked up a box from the Montgomery County couple that had around $400 of replica gold bars inside bac Lawsuit filed against Maryland claims thousands of driver's licenses are wrongly suspended over child support payments 06/25/2025 04:31am • A man in Prince George's County, Maryland, said a common traffic stop turned into his car being impounded and his driver's license being wrongly suspended over child support payments. Now, he's filing a lawsuit against the state. He said he was going to work one day and was near the Pentagon in D DC man arrested after stabbing officer during scuffle 06/25/2025 04:02am • D.C. police announced the arrest of a man who stabbed an officer during an arrest Tuesday morning in the Shaw neighborhood. The stabbing occurred in the 600 block of Florida Avenue NW around 8:35 a.m. Officers approached the suspect, Ian Andre Zephryin, of Northeast, who was suspected of theft fr Sex offender charged with burglary, rape of 85-year-old woman at Manassas-area assisted living facility 06/23/2025 10:31pm • A man who is on Virginia's sex offender registry for a similar crime in 2018 is accused of entering an assisted living facility in the Manassas area June 20 and raping an 85-year-old resident. Benjamin Alex Dinarte, 32, of Manassas, allegedly entered the facility at 9852 Fairmont Ave. at 6:50 a.m Could tensions with Iran impact DC's Fourth of July celebration? 06/23/2025 08:15pm • The recent airstrikes on Iran and the Middle Eastern country���s response to them have put many major cities in the nation on high alert, including the District. ���We are the nation's capital, and we stand at a heightened state of awareness,��� Mayor Muriel Bowser said. The increased tension