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2 DC police officers involved in moped driver's death reinstated after Trump pardons 03/04/2025 01:05pm • Two D.C. police officers involved in a pursuit that left a moped driver dead are now back on the force after being pardoned by President Donald Trump in January. Lt. Andrew Zabavsky and officer Terence Sutton had been convicted on charges related to a 2020 pursuit that ended with 20-year-old Karo Voters head to the polls in Prince George's Co. for pair of special elections 03/04/2025 06:55am • Polls in a pair of special elections in Prince George’s County, Maryland, open at 7 a.m. Tuesday. Democrats and Republicans in Maryland's second-most populous county will pick their nominees to become the next county executive in a special primary election. There's also a special general ele Security guard charged with murder after shooting inside restaurant near U.Md. 03/03/2025 02:33pm • A security guard was charged with murder after a shooting inside a Prince George's County, Maryland, restaurant Saturday night that left a man dead. Murwanashyaka Francois, 54, was charged with second-degree murder in the death of 45-year-old Ricardo Clemons Jr., according to a Prince George's Co Gov. Youngkin commutes sentence of former Fairfax Co. officer who shot and killed man outside Tysons Corner Center 03/03/2025 08:42am • Days after a judge sentenced a former Fairfax County police officer to prison in the fatal shooting of an unarmed man accused of stealing sunglasses in Tysons, Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin stepped in to commute his sentence. Youngkin's action means former Fairfax County police officer Wesley Shif 'I just wanted a hat and a horse': Retired ranger recalls breaking barriers in the National Park Service 03/03/2025 05:28am • Throughout the month of March, WTOP is celebrating Women’s History Month. Join us on-air and online as we honor the achievements of women in our community.       It was 1958 and Tina Short was a little girl in a summer camp at Fort Dupont Park in D.C. One day at camp, a mounted officer a 2nd teenager dies after Feb. double shooting at Md. mall, police say 03/02/2025 01:27pm • A second teen has died following a shooting outside of The Mall in Columbia, Maryland, late last month, Howard County police confirmed to WTOP. On Saturday, police said Blake McCray, 15, had died. He was transported to the University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center following the shooting on Feb Luigi Mangione's Pennsylvania attorney argues search, arrest were illegal 03/01/2025 11:40am • Luigi Mangione appears at a hearing for the murder of UHC CEO Brian Thompson at Manhattan Criminal Court on February 21, 2025 in New York City. (Photo by Curtis Means - Pool/Getty Images)(NEW YORK) -- A defense attorney for Luigi Mangione, the man charged with killing the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, i Woman, 87, shot and killed in Fairfax County; 88-year-old husband under arrest 02/28/2025 09:48pm • An 87-year-old woman was shot to death in her Virginia home early Friday after a domestic dispute led to gunfire. Police arrested Marilyn Sommer's 88-year-old husband in connection with the killing. In a release on Friday night, police said their preliminary investigation found Douglas Sommer Former Fairfax County cop who killed Tysons shoplifting suspect sentenced to 3 years on firearm charge 02/28/2025 05:45pm • A former Fairfax County, Virginia, police officer has been sentenced to three years in prison after he fatally shot a man accused of shoplifting outside Tysons Corner Center in 2023. A Fairfax County judge on Friday sentenced 36-year-old Wesley Shifflett to five years in prison, with two years su Md. man who scammed 74-year-old out of $1M in gold bar scheme pleads guilty 02/28/2025 04:24pm • An Owings Mills, Maryland, man pleaded guilty to theft and multiple charges Wednesday after scamming a Montgomery County man into converting more than $1 million into gold bars and handing them over to fraudsters. Vipul Thakkar, 53, admitted in Montgomery County Circuit Court to targeting elderl Va. police officers deputized as immigration agents under Youngkin's order pushing cooperation with ICE 02/28/2025 04:23pm • Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin issued an executive order this week deputizing state police officers as immigration agents and directing prisons and local law enforcement agencies to collaborate with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Under the order, the Virginia State Police will enter into Prince William Co. introduces digital hub to support fired federal workers 02/27/2025 04:55pm • Prince William County is rolling out a digital hub to support government workers who have lost their jobs as a result of recent changes to the federal workforce. The website includes information about job opportunities, workforce training, housing help and mental health resources. Supervisor V DC officials announce new plan to lower traffic deaths and crashes 02/26/2025 04:12pm • D.C. officials Wednesday announced a new initiative to bring down the city's stubbornly high traffic crash and death rate. Two specific areas are being targeted for increased traffic enforcement for the next 60 days, including a higher police presence: New York Avenue NE beginning at 4th Str 'Real Housewives' star will spend one year in prison for Maryland DUI 02/26/2025 12:30pm • A woman known for her stint on the "Real Housewives of Potomac," will spend a year behind bars with five years probation for a DUI conviction stemming from a crash in Montgomery County, Maryland, last year. Karen Huger (known on the show as the "Grand Dame of Potomac") had one year of her two 'Baltimore Bridge Collapse' documentary: Why investigators believe Dali lost power, Key Bridge collapse was preventable 02/26/2025 10:31am • Exactly 11 months after the deadly container ship crash and collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge, in Baltimore, Maryland, a PBS documentary provides the latest details in the investigation of why the Dali cargo ship lost power — and why the structure collapsed so catastrophically. "The NTSB