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Road closures for Rock 'n' Roll Half Marathon and 5K in DC 03/12/2025 09:14am • Thousands of runners and spectators will converge on D.C. for the Rock 'n' Roll Half Marathon and 5K on Saturday. Here are some road closures and parking restrictions you need to know before you go. Here's a map of road closures from the race's organizers: D.C. police said the following st Alexandria police work on adding more women, increasing leadership 03/11/2025 06:55pm • Throughout March, WTOP is celebrating Women’s History Month. Join us on-air and online as we honor the achievements of women in our community.  Alexandria Police Chief Tarrick McGuire recalls looking around at his recruit class when he began his career in policing in 2003. “There w Capitol Police Chief Tom Manger says he'll retire in May 03/11/2025 06:32pm • The U.S. Capitol Police chief, who took over the department following the Jan. 6 riot, and previously led the police forces in Montgomery and Fairfax counties, said Tuesday that he is retiring this year. Tom Manger said his last day of work for Capitol Police is on May 2. “I am honored to ha Blow by a stopped school bus in this part of Northern Virginia, expect a hefty fine 03/11/2025 09:37am • Drivers can expect a hefty fine if they pass a school bus picking-up or dropping-off students in Fairfax County, Virginia. Dozens of buses there will soon have stop-arm cameras. A total of 50 stop-arm cameras will be installed on public school buses, part of a pilot program between the county and DC leaders in budget panic, saying Congress bill would financially devastate the city 03/10/2025 06:51pm • D.C. leaders were in a panic on Monday afternoon, sounding the alarm and saying the federal spending bill under consideration in Congress would be financially devastating to the city. "It's like taking a catastrophe and doubling it," D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson said. Over the weekend, DC crews begin removing Black Lives Matter Plaza 03/10/2025 03:51pm • Crews began reconstruction plans around Black Lives Matter Plaza near the White House in Northwest D.C. on Monday morning. The changes come after legislation introduced by Republicans in Congress last week demanded the District remove the 35-foot-tall phrase that stretches for two blocks north of Police interview man last seen with Loudoun Co. college student who disappeared in Dominican Republic 03/10/2025 11:59am • After three days of searching the waters and shores near a resort beach in Punta Cana, police in the Dominican Republic say a man who was with 20-year-old Sudiksha Konanki, of South Riding, Virginia, when she was last seen "is under investigation." Sudiksha, a premed student at the University of Group gathers at Black Lives Matter Plaza to honor mural 03/09/2025 07:31pm • A group of fraternity brothers wants people to remember why D.C.'s Black Lives Matter Plaza was created in the first place. About 40 members of the Eastern Province Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity gathered at BLM Plaza in Northwest on Sunday to pray, sing and honor the significance of the mural that' Child killed after driver fleeing traffic stop crashes into 4 vehicles in Prince George's Co. 03/09/2025 01:55pm • A child was killed in Prince George's County, Maryland, Friday night after officials say a driver fleeing a traffic stop crashed into four cars in Capitol Heights. The incident started in the 6000 block of Marlboro Pike around 6:25 p.m., where an officer with the District Heights Police Departmen Armed man hospitalized following shooting near White House 03/09/2025 08:08am • A man is being treated at a D.C. hospital following an "armed confrontation" with U.S. Secret Service agents near the White House on Sunday. It happened "shortly after midnight" at 17th and G streets in Northwest, according to Secret Service spokesman Anthony Guglielmi. The Secret Service said Tesla facilities across the country attacked in protest of Elon Musk 03/08/2025 10:42pm • â–¶ Watch Video: Tesla shares falling as European sales drop. Is Musk to blame? Graffiti on a Tesla dealership sign. Molotov cocktails thrown in another dealership's lot. Tesla charging stations set on fire. Across the country, the electric vehicle company's facilities and vehicles are being Trump administration looks to address safety for travelers in DC 03/08/2025 07:40am • The U.S. Department of Transportation said it wants to improve travel safety in the nation's capital, with a series of letters to D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser and the heads of Amtrak and Metro. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy’s letters come as the Trump administration has increased its focus on Report critical of GW's rollout of armed police officers, school president apologizes for 'failures' 03/07/2025 01:19pm • An investigation into how George Washington University began arming its police force in 2023 determined the school chose to not seek community input before implementing the plan because it feared public opposition would quash plans to provide its officers with guns. In a four-page summary of find Social media influencer arrested in St. Mary's Co. on arson charges 03/07/2025 09:32am • A social media influencer known for filming fire departments in Maryland has been arrested on new, similar charges after being detained last week for intentionally setting fire to a vacant building. In a release on Thursday, the Maryland Office of the State Fire Marshal said 21-year-old social me Md. man didn't know car he rented was reported stolen, until police held him at gunpoint 03/06/2025 09:28pm • A Maryland man says his vacation to Arizona, where he was visiting family for a baby shower earlier this winter, turned into the worst experience of his life — one that could have left him dead. A month later, he's still demanding answers from an online rental car company that put him behin