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43 years later, convicted rapist pleads guilty to 2 Montgomery Co. attacks 10/04/2024 11:08am • Forty-three years after raping one woman and sexually assaulting another in 1981, convicted sex offender Marion Edward Pearson told a Montgomery County judge and his two victims that he was pleading guilty ���because I am, in fact, guilty.��� Pearson, now 67, pleaded guilty on Friday to one count How Prince George's Co. hopes to help families with violence in the home 10/03/2024 01:52pm • Standing in front of a group of people inside a mental health treatment facility, James Oxley recounted the story about trying to help his then 15-year-old son ��� a sweet kid at home and a drug user hanging out with a bad crew while he was at school. Oxley described the struggle of trying to get Mayor Davis-Younger, challenger Byrom face off in Manassas forum 10/03/2024 01:44pm • With the November election just around the corner, current Manassas Mayor Michelle Davis-Younger and challenger Xiao-Yin ���Tang��� Byrom participated in a candidate forum that filled a room at the Manassas Museum on Tuesday evening. In addition to the mayor���s race, three at-large City Council se 17-year-old girl dies after vehicle crashes into wooden light pole 10/03/2024 12:54pm • A 17-year-old girl has been killed and two of her friends have critical injuries after she drove into a wooden light pole while the three were on their way to school in Montgomery County, Maryland. It happened shortly before 8 a.m. Wednesday at the intersection of Norwood Road and Nesbitt Farm La 10 Prince George's Co. students charged in connection with school threats 10/03/2024 09:32am • Ten students in Prince George's County, Maryland, have been charged in connection with multiple school threats so far this academic year. The students charged are between 13 and 16 years old. Prince George's County police said in a news release that they investigated 47 school-related threats Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin tells WTOP he's 'encouraged' by recovery efforts in the state post-Helene 10/02/2024 07:57pm • It has been almost a week since Hurricane Helene made landfall in Florida's Big Bend region. And it didn't stop there. The storm plowed through Florida, Georgia, the Carolinas and Virginia, leaving a long path of destruction behind it. The southwest region of Virginia got hit hard with flooded Arlington man charged in series of Georgetown home invasion rape cases from the late 2000s 10/02/2024 06:30pm • An Arlington, Virginia, man was arrested at his home Tuesday night and charged in connection with a string of sexual assaults that occurred in the D.C. neighborhood of Georgetown in the late 2000s, authorities said Wednesday. Ernesto Ramon Mercado, 54, has been charged with three counts of first- WATCH: Police officer saves deer stuck in soccer net in Annapolis 10/02/2024 01:55pm • A police officer saved a deer after it became stuck in a soccer net at a park in Annapolis, Maryland, on Sunday morning. Anne Arundel County police said Corporal Sears received a call around 8:30 a.m. for a report of an injured deer at Peninsula Park. When Sears arrived, he saw the deer in dis New calls for more security funding for the Jewish community after Iran's attack on Israel 10/02/2024 06:18am • Iran���s missile attack on Israel on Tuesday evening caused scattered damage and fires from falling shrapnel, but authorities said there were no injuries. That is a fact that Ron Halber, chief executive officer of the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington, called ���a miracle.� Judge rules that U.Md. cannot bar vigil by pro-Palestinian student group 10/01/2024 05:50pm • A federal judge ruled Tuesday that the University of Maryland, College Park, must allow a vigil by a pro-Palestinian student group on Oct. 7, the anniversary of a Hamas attack that killed 1,200 Israelis and sparked the Israel-Hamas war. ���Even if pro-Israel groups see October 7 as somehow sacros Maryland closes loophole in Noah's Law to prevent repeat drunk drivers 09/30/2024 06:43pm • Eight years after Noah's Law went into effect, Maryland legislators have closed a loophole that allowed some drivers to repeatedly drive while intoxicated. Now, anyone caught driving under the influence will be required to install an ignition interlock device, which includes a camera. The upd 'We've got screenshots:' Scam surging in Fairfax Co. threatens release of online activity 09/30/2024 03:10pm • "We've seen what you do, we've got screenshots." That's the message that comes followed by a demand for payment in a scam that authorities say is surging in Virginia's most populated county. If payment is not sent in Bitcoin, then the scammers say the most private contents of the victim's phone o New National Law Enforcement Museum exhibit showcases the art of law enforcement officers 09/30/2024 08:58am • A new art exhibition at the National Law Enforcement Museum in D.C. features artwork by 50 active and retired law enforcement officers from around the U.S. ���Crossing to School��� painting by Shannon Cockett. (Courtesy Shannon Cockett) Shannon Cockett, a three-time victim of crime, who found The riots that reshaped how DC connected with the Latino community 09/30/2024 04:51am • WTOP celebrates National Hispanic Heritage Month this Sept. 15 through Oct. 15,��with stories��spotlighting the contributions, culture and accomplishments of Hispanic communities across the D.C. region. On May 5, 1991, a Salvadoran man was shot by a D.C. police officer, and that shooting sparked Coldplay on their record-breaking world tour: 'We're having such a great time' 09/29/2024 10:07am • ▶ Watch Video: Coldplay on their record-breaking world tour Dublin's Grafton Street was mobbed last month when word spread that Coldplay was coming to shoot the video for their new single, "We Pray." "I was a little nervous for you there in the beginning," said Mason. "Yeah, but