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'Unacceptable': Man killed in shooting near elementary school's track meet in DC 05/20/2025 05:37pm • A man is dead after he was shot Tuesday as an elementary school track meet was underway at a vacant high school in Northeast D.C., police said. Officers are searching for three suspects who police said hopped out of a vehicle and fired at a man walking along a sidewalk near the school's track in Prince William Co. police charge man with animal cruelty after dog dies in hot car 05/20/2025 04:50pm • A 28-year-old man was charged Friday evening after leaving his dog inside a car outside the Manassas Mall, leading to the death of his 2-year-old American bulldog, according to police. According to police spokesperson Renee Carr, Malik Lee Dorsey O’Bannion left one of his dogs alone inside his Retired Prince George's County firefighter charged with raping teenage boy decades ago 05/20/2025 02:13pm • A 61-year-old retired Prince George's County, Maryland, firefighter is under house arrest after turning himself into police Saturday. On May 12, a warrant was issued for the arrest of John Inman, who was living in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, since retiring from the Prince George's County Fire D Washington Capitals' Alex Alexeyev pepper-sprayed by police, charged with public intoxication 05/20/2025 11:00am • A Washington Capitals player has been charged with public intoxication following a fight in Arlington, Virginia, early Saturday morning, police said. Arlington County police said Alex Alexeyev, 25, of Arlington, was arrested around 3:30 a.m. in the 3100 block of Clarendon Boulevard after a patrol Navy Yard residents frustrated by teen violence in their neighborhood 05/19/2025 09:23pm • D.C. police continue to investigate large gathering of dozens of teenagers in Navy Yard on Saturday night, where several fights broke out and two people were robbed. It's not clear whether the individuals involved in the gathering were involved in the robbery, but police are reviewing videos and 3 escape youth detention in Pennsylvania, steal car involved in DC robbery and shooting, police say 05/19/2025 05:15pm • Three boys escaped from a Pennsylvania youth detention center that D.C. contracts with this weekend and returned to the District in a stolen car that was then involved in a robbery and shooting, according to police. One of the escapees is in custody and police are still searching for the other t Blue Angels take to the skies for Naval Academy commissioning week 05/19/2025 04:16pm • A sky show unlike any other is coming to Annapolis, Maryland, this week as the U.S. Navy Blue Angels honor the 2025 Naval Academy graduating class. The F/A-18 Super Hornet jets will zip over the Severn River in tight, diamond formation before displaying the rest of their dazzling moves. But don†Man charged in fatal shooting of Md. toddler acquitted of murder, guilty on other charges 05/19/2025 01:48pm • One of the men charged in the fatal shooting of a 2-year-old boy in Langley Park, Maryland, last year was found guilty Monday of three of the 11 charges he faced, including attempted murder. Johnny Alejandro Turcios, 28, was involved in a February 2024 shootout over drug dealing territory, during 2 dead as damaging storms pack 80 mph wind gusts in DC region, downing trees onto cars and homes 05/17/2025 04:24am • Severe weather battered the D.C. region and left two people dead Friday, with the heightened heat and humidity adding more fuel to the fire for storms packing up to 80 mph wind gusts, hail and heavy rain. In Fairfax County, Virginia, a woman was killed during the storms around 5:30 p.m. after a t 2-year-old survives 15-story fall from Silver Spring apartment building balcony 05/17/2025 03:49am • A 2-year-old boy fell off a 15th-floor balcony at an apartment building in Silver Spring, Maryland, on Thursday and miraculously survived. Around 2 p.m. Thursday, Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service personnel responded to the Enclave apartment building in the 11200 block of Oak Leaf Drive i Md. Gov. Moore vetoes reparations bill, one of a list of measures he will reject 05/16/2025 08:46pm • Gov. Wes Moore (D) announced Friday that he will veto the Reparations Commission bill that called for a study of historic inequality endured by African descendants in Maryland. The veto of a reparations measure by the only sitting Black governor in the nation was included a list of vetoes of bill Jury in Langley Park toddler murder case ends week with no verdict 05/16/2025 04:44pm • Jurors have been deliberating since Tuesday in the case of the shooting death of a 2-year-old boy in Maryland's Langley Park neighborhood. After a juror told the judge she had a personal matter that required her to leave early Friday, the judge dismissed the jury and asked they reconvene Monday. Montgomery County Council set to approve $7.6B budget with 'unyielding commitment' to education, public safety 05/16/2025 04:56am • The Montgomery County Council held its "straw vote" on a $7.6 billion spending plan Thursday that includes $3.6 billion for education. The unanimous vote comes a week before the formal and final council vote on May 22. In a briefing with reporters, Montgomery County Council President Kate Stewar Manassas woman charged with animal cruelty after kitten euthanized, 23 cats seized 05/15/2025 10:23am • Animal control officers seized 23 cats and charged a Manassas-area woman with six counts of animal cruelty after a Scottish-fold kitten in her care had to be euthanized due to mistreatment, according to police. A local veterinarian contacted police Feb. 25 after a 2-month-old kitten "was brought What new data tells us about homelessness in the DC region 05/14/2025 08:35pm • The D.C. region, as a whole, saw homelessness decrease slightly this year over 2024, according to the annual point-in-time survey done by area jurisdictions. The count, done by volunteers and others on two nights, found 9,659 people experiencing homelessness in the region — down 115 people from