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'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 Md. lawmakers consider bill using in-car photos of distracted driving violations, spotlighting privacy issues 02/25/2025 05:30pm • The maker of a traffic camera that uses artificial intelligence to pinpoint whether a driver is violating Maryland's law prohibiting handheld cellphone use while driving told lawmakers, "Distracted driving feels like our generation's drunken driving." That's why Dhruv Maheshwari, cofounder of Obv High-tech traffic safety bill clears final hurdle in Virginia 02/25/2025 07:03am • Virginia lawmakers delivered a last-minute compromise on a contentious safety bill — ushering in high-tech school zone cameras and speed camera guardrails — just as the General Assembly wrapped up its session. However, the measure’s future now rests with Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s pending approva Police in Montgomery Co. ask for public's help to catch suspected armed robber 02/24/2025 09:30pm • Police in Montgomery County, Maryland, are trying to solve a string of armed robberies they believe were all committed by the same man. In a news release on Monday, police published photos of the man they say committed the crimes while armed with a kitchen knife. On Sunday, the man robbed both Police: Howard Co. man charged with murdering his grandparents inside their home 02/24/2025 06:13pm • A Columbia, Maryland, man was charged with the murders of his grandparents after they were found shot dead inside their home in the early morning hours Monday, police said. According to Howard County police, 33-year-old DiAngelo Smith is charged with two counts of first-degree murder and other c