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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 DC man accused of ripping around National Mall in SUV says it was 'just a joke' 06/23/2025 08:12pm • A D.C. man accused of doing doughnuts and driving recklessly on the National Mall on Saturday told police it was "just a joke," and he's facing charges of fleeing law enforcement and reckless driving. A judge ordered Curtis Lear, 30, to be held without bond after he appeared at the D.C. Super The bank employee coming to pick up your ATM card from your home is likely a scammer 06/23/2025 04:09pm • Police in Montgomery County, Maryland, want you and your family to be wary of anyone who tells you your ATM card is faulty and offers to pick it up. They are likely scammers who are desperate to drain your bank account. "They're being told by an individual who is purporting to be from their finan National Mall mayhem as SUV weaves through tourists; driver arrested 06/22/2025 08:49pm • A driver tore through the National Mall in an SUV Saturday, weaving around joggers, families and baffled tourists on the pedestrian paths between the Washington Monument and the U.S. Capitol. Footage shared on social media shows the vehicle speeding past the Smithsonian Castle, blowing through st How are local officials reacting to the US strikes on Iran? 06/22/2025 03:03pm • Local politicians are reacting Sunday with their thoughts after the United States attacked three nuclear sites in Iran. Reaction from local politicians: D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser and the D.C. police Mayor Bowser said city officials are monitoring the attacks and the potential impact to the D.C. Md. trooper hit while investigating crash on Capital Beltway 06/21/2025 06:36pm • Maryland State Police said a trooper was hit while investigating a crash on the Capital Beltway in Prince George's County on Saturday morning. It took place just before 2:45 a.m., as authorities went to the area of the inner loop I-495 at Greenbelt Road about a report of a trooper-related crash. FIFA Club World Cup, National Capital Barbecue Battle brings street closures to DC 06/21/2025 03:36pm • The District will be packed this weekend with the FIFA Club World Cup and the annual National Capital Barbecue Battle, despite a heat wave approaching the region. The FIFA Club World Cup brings soccer, team spirit, and excitement to Audi Field in Southwest D.C. on Sunday, while the National Capi Former Prince George's Co. police officer awarded $1.8 million over attack and work harassment 06/21/2025 12:40pm • Prince George���s County has been ordered to pay $1.8 million to a former police officer who accused a superior of sexual assault and the department of retaliation. Kara McMurray, a former officer with the Prince George���s County Police Department, was awarded the damages in a June 17 ruling fro Virginia State Police investigating small plane crash in Spotsylvania Co. 06/20/2025 06:55pm • Two people were injured when a small plane crashed in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, on Friday afternoon. Virginia State Police are currently investigating a plane crash that occurred around 2:34 p.m. off of Spotswood Furnace Road in Fredericksburg. A single prop aircraft crashed in a field s