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Arlington authorities asking the public for information about a dog put to sleep after found in the cold 12/06/2024 01:40am • Authorities in Arlington, Virginia, want the public's help in finding the owner of an emaciated dog that was humanely put to sleep after being found outside in the cold this week. The Animal Welfare League of Arlington said the dog was dropped off near the Walter Reed Community Center. A resident Police: Prince William Co. officer fatally shoots knife-wielding man 12/05/2024 09:41pm • A Prince William County, Virginia, officer shot and killed a man who police say approached the officer with a knife and refused to drop it. It happened just after 5 a.m. Thursday near the Department of Fire & Rescue Station 26 and the Central District Police Station on Davis Ford Road in Montgomery County launches online portal for reporting hate, bias incidents 12/05/2024 08:00pm • Montgomery County's new reporting system for documenting hate and bias incidents includes an online form that can be filled out anonymously. The new reporting format on the county's website is intended to make reporting all kinds of incidents simpler. "We encourage people to file. You can fil She admitted to covering up her grandmother's murder last year. Now she's getting out of jail 12/05/2024 07:51pm • A Maryland woman who admitted to helping cover up the murder of her grandmother is set to be released from jail only a year after the killing. Salia Hardy, 21, testified in the case against her own mother, 46-year-old Candace Craig, who was found guilty of murdering and dismembering 71-year old M 3 missing siblings located safe; Amber Alert canceled in Virginia 12/05/2024 05:58pm • Three siblings that deputies say were abducted in Virginia on Thursday have been found safe. Virginia State Police issued an Amber Alert for the three children — ages 10, 8 and 6 years old — after they were taken from a bus stop in Fishersville in Augusta County, Virginia, on Thursday morning Man charged with robbing postal workers, stealing huge amounts of mail across DC area 12/05/2024 01:23pm • A D.C. man has been charged with stealing mail in D.C., Arlington, Virginia, and Bowie, Maryland, throughout 2024 after stealing arrow keys from a postal worker in December 2023, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office of D.C. Ibrahim Emmanuel De La Cruz, 25, has also been charged in the armed r Police nationwide illegally sell restricted weapons, supplying crime, investigation shows 12/05/2024 08:35am • â–¶ Watch Video: Police across the U.S. are illegally selling firearms, CBS News investigation finds Adair, Iowa, had a population of 794. So, it seemed suspicious when its three-person police department asked regulators to buy 90 machine guns, including an M134 Gatling-style minigun capable Using increased officer visibility, Metro cracks down on bus fare evasion 12/04/2024 09:00pm • As buses pulled up to stops at the Fort Totten Metro station Wednesday afternoon, several officers wearing yellow vests stood next to them. In some cases, they got on the bus itself, engaging with the driver. On other occasions, they stood right outside the doors, making sure everyone boardin 13-year-old girl ordered held for 8 years in beating death of Reggie Brown 12/04/2024 07:01pm • A 13-year-old girl who was convicted of murder in the 2023 death of 64-year-old Reggie Brown in D.C. was sentenced Wednesday to eight years of confinement. The girl, whose identity has not been made public as she's a minor, will serve the allotted time at a secure juvenile facility. While walk Montgomery Co. police crack down on unsafe drivers 12/04/2024 02:04pm • It's a full-on law enforcement blitz along Maryland Route 355 from the D.C. line all the way to Frederick County. Montgomery County, Rockville City and Maryland State Police are out in force nabbing motorists who are not driving safely. Assistant Montgomery County police Chief David McBain Road closures for National Christmas Tree lighting in DC 12/04/2024 10:21am • Watch the National Christmas Tree Lighting ceremony below when it starts. We're creepin' up on Christmas (don't tell Krampus) ... and that means there's gonna be a lot of lights. One of the more important (with all deference to yours, of course) is the National Christmas tree. The lighting i Alexandria bus driver charged with shooting and killing Oxon Hill woman 12/04/2024 09:10am • An Alexandria, Virginia, school bus driver has been charged with shooting and killing a young woman in Oxon Hill, Maryland. Carlas William Carter, 37, and 34-year-old Mary Ashby were arrested and charged for shooting and killing Tamara Jones, 26, on Nov. 26 on Oxon Hill Road near Livingston Road. Virginia lawmakers consider regulating police use of automated license plate readers 12/04/2024 06:20am • State lawmakers are debating whether to regulate law enforcement departments’ use of Automated License Plate Readers (ALPR). They heard  constituents’ perspectives on the technology and reviewed studies from the Virginia State Crime Commission at a meeting in Richmond on Thursday. ALPRs are 'Fill the Boat' hopes to collect toys for children victims of Hurricane Helene 12/04/2024 04:00am • Moving full steam ahead. A local nonprofit and emergency responders from Montgomery County, Maryland, are teaming up this Saturday to collect toys for children in North Carolina affected by Hurricane Helene. "Fill the Boat" is an annual event meant to collect and distribute toys to children th Man who murdered girlfriend in 2014 now indicted in Dale City murder-for-hire killing of his wife 12/03/2024 04:43pm • A Prince William County grand jury has indicted a 34-year-old man convicted of murder in the shooting death of his high school girlfriend a decade ago in the ambush-style, murder-for-hire killing of his wife in Dale City earlier this year. In both cases, the victims were found in their cars with gu