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Prince George’s Co. police to focus on super smaller areas to squelch crime this summer 05/29/2025 04:15am • Touting big declines in crime so far in 2025, police in Prince George’s County, Maryland, announced their looming summer crime initiative as the school year winds down and crime tends to tick up. “Our summer crime initiative is built upon the pillars of crime prevention, community engagement, Man dies after altercation at Silver Diner in Rockville, police say 05/28/2025 08:20pm • Police in Montgomery County, Maryland, are asking for witnesses to come forward with information about the death of a man at the Silver Diner in Rockville last week. According to police, 49-year-old Fredi Torres, of Gaithersburg, was unresponsive when police showed up to the restaurant on Rockvil Md. teen linked to 120 vehicle break-ins gets released hours after arrest 05/28/2025 04:21pm • A 16-year-old was arrested in connection to more than 100 vehicle break-ins earlier this month in Maryland. But it’s what happened afterward that left Laurel's police chief so agitated. During the first weekend in May, 121 vehicles were broken into. Most occurred in the city of Laurel, but doze Man charged with killing 2 teens during botched drug deal in Temple Hills 05/28/2025 03:12pm • A Fort Washington, Maryland, man is facing murder charges after a drug deal went sideways Tuesday night, police said. Duan Goddard, 27, was charged with first- and second-degree murder in the fatal shooting of 16-year-old Thomas Smith Jr., of D.C., and 16-year-old Michael Bassett, of Temple Hills DUI charge against woman shot outside CIA headquarters in Fairfax Co. 05/28/2025 03:02pm • A woman has been charged with driving under the influence after she allegedly sped toward the front gate of the CIA's headquarters in Fairfax County, Virginia, and was shot by security officers last week. Monia Spadaro, 27, is facing charges related to driving under the influence and eluding law What's driving a recent surge of homicides in the District 05/27/2025 03:11pm • There were nearly a half dozen homicides in D.C. over the Memorial Day weekend, and it comes as violent crime has begun to tick up with the start of summer. There have been at least 10 homicides in the District in the last 10 days, according to D.C. police data. They include 59-year-old Jose Car Bowser's budget sidesteps DC layoffs but makes cuts to cover funding gap 05/27/2025 01:03pm • Mayor Muriel Bowser unveiled Tuesday her 2026 D.C. budget proposal, along with a supplemental 2025 budget proposal, which avoids tax increases and government layoffs but eliminates or alters some programs involving social services. The proposals address a funding gap created by Congress and look to What could soon be banned in Ocean City? 05/27/2025 09:27am • With Memorial Day marking the unofficial start of summer, many beachgoers might have their eyes set on Ocean City, Maryland. But be warned: there's some talk of changes coming for visitors and what they're allowed to bring to the beach. Ocean City Mayor Rick Meehan told WTOP the city council is 4 wounded in Alexandria shooting, 1 of them faces multiple charges 05/27/2025 08:06am • One of the four people wounded in an Alexandria, Virginia, shooting early Monday, faces multiple charges including malicious wounding, police said. The shooting happened during the predawn hours in front of an apartment complex in the 3800 Block of Florence Drive, near West Glebe Road, according FBI, Apple Federal Credit Union warn parents: Gen Z faces rising threat of online scams 05/27/2025 06:51am • This content is sponsored by Apple Federal Credit Union. In today's digital age, raising financially responsible kids means equipping them not only with money management skills but also with the knowledge to navigate and avoid online scams. Apple Federal Credit Union and the FBI are joining f 'I have seen policing evolve': US Capitol Police chief retires after nearly 50 years in law enforcement 05/27/2025 05:02am • After nearly four years, U.S. Capitol Police Chief Thomas Manger says he's retiring at the end of May. It's not the first time that Manger, 70, has retired as the leader of a police agency. He served as Fairfax County police chief from 1998 to 2004. Manger left that job to serve as the chief o From big cuts to big payments for a new stadium, Bowser to reveal two important budgets for DC 05/26/2025 07:45pm • On Tuesday, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser will unveil not only her proposed FY-2026 budget for the city, but also her supplemental 2025 budget that will outline where hundreds of millions of dollars in cuts will be made from the current budget. Delays in turning over the budgets to the D.C. Counci Man arrested in DC hotel assault after allegedly throwing bottles, shouting slurs 05/26/2025 11:39am • A man was arrested and charged after police said he threw bottles at people and called them hateful slurs at a hotel in Northwest D.C. on Saturday evening. Officers responded to a call for indecent exposure in the 500 block of New Jersey Avenue around 5:20 p.m. Saturday, according to a D.C. polic Blade-based martial arts school teaches self-defense and culture of the Philippines 05/26/2025 04:46am • All throughout May, WTOP is celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month with stories about the people and places shaping the D.C. region. A martial arts school in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, not only teaches students self-defense, but defines the culture of the Philippines Man killed by stray bullet while inside his Northwest DC apartment 05/25/2025 10:35pm • A man was killed on Sunday after a stray bullet went flying into his Northwest D.C. apartment, police said. It happened around 6 p.m. on Ogden Place in the Columbia Heights area. D.C. police said the stray bullet came from the back of the apartment building, noting that they do not believe the