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'He was just always serving': Community honors DC police investigator who died while trying to retrieve gun 09/03/2024 05:45am • A community vigil in the Langdon neighborhood of Northeast D.C. Monday night honored the life of fallen D.C. police investigator Wayne David, who died after a gun he was trying to recover went off, striking him in the head with a bullet. Dozens attended the vigil, which was held outside David's a Police identify armed man fatally shot by DC officers after McDonald's crash 09/02/2024 05:12pm • Police have identified the armed man who was fatally shot by two D.C. police officers outside of a McDonald's on Marion Barry Avenue Southeast on Sunday morning. The shooting happened on Sept. 1, 2024, at 2529 Good Hope Road, near the intersection of Marion Barry Avenue and Naylor Road. (WTOP/Gr Man killed in downtown Silver Spring shooting 09/02/2024 03:57pm • A man has died after being shot multiple times in downtown Silver Spring, Maryland, on Monday morning, police said. Police responded to a call for gunshots just before 10 a.m. near Eastern Avenue Northwest. When police arrived, they found a man in an alley who was suffering from multiple gunsh Suspects wielding hammers and fire extinguisher rob jewelry store in Pentagon City mall 09/02/2024 02:40pm • Police in Arlington, Virginia, are looking for three suspects who are accused of deploying a fire extinguisher, smashing a jewelry display case with hammers and making off with jewelry in a Sunday smash-and-grab robbery inside a Pentagon City mall. Officers responded to the Fashion Centre at Pent Kensington celebrates end of summer with annual Labor Day parade 09/02/2024 01:08pm • Families lined Connecticut Avenue in Kensington, Maryland, on Monday for the town's annual Labor Day Parade and Festival, with cheers erupting as fire trucks sounded their sirens and local politicians threw candy to excited kids in the crowd. This year's end-of-summer tradition included antiq Several arrests in one night after nearly a dozen illegal car exhibitions across Maryland 09/02/2024 11:20am • Several people were arrested across three Maryland counties Saturday night into Sunday morning at nearly a dozen different illegal car exhibitions, according to Maryland State Police. Officers arrested seven people ranging from 20 to 33 years of age, police said in a news release. Those arrested Nearly 10 years after disappearance of Hoggle children, prosecutor still hopes to try Catherine Hoggle for murders 09/02/2024 07:48am • A decade after his two children went missing, one Maryland father isn't giving up. This weekend will mark 10 years since 2-year-old Jacob Hoggle and 3-year-old Sarah Hoggle were last seen with their mother, Catherine Hoggle, on Sept. 7, 2014. The next day, the children's father, Troy Turner r DC police find driver of motorcycle that suspect used to escape after dropping gun that killed officer 09/01/2024 05:49pm • Editor's note: This story and its headline have been updated to clarify the role of the motorcyclist.  A suspect hopped on the back of a motorcycle to escape after allegedly dropping a gun that later accidentally fired and killed a veteran D.C. police officer.  Police confirmed to WTOP t 'I was horrified': Dog reunited with owner after being stolen at gunpoint in Prince George's Co. 09/01/2024 05:30pm • A woman has been reunited with her dog after she says her pet was stolen at gunpoint on Saturday morning in Prince George's County, Maryland. Sophia Radich told WTOP she was reunited with her dog on Sunday afternoon after a tipster spotted Yana, a small Havanese, in Landover and reached out. 2-month-old baby dead after drug overdose in Northwest DC, police say 09/01/2024 12:51pm • The death of a baby killed in a Northwest D.C. overdose incident in May will be investigated as a homicide, police said. Officials said they were called to an apartment in the 1400 block of Newton Street just after 11 a.m. on May 27 for a report of an unconscious infant. First responders took Driver shot dead by DC police after crashing into a McDonald's, officials say 09/01/2024 10:08am • A man is dead after officials say a pair of D.C. police officers opened fire Sunday morning in Southeast. It happened after the car he was driving crashed into the McDonald's located at 2529 Good Hope Road, at the intersection of Marion Barry Avenue and Naylor Road, just after 5:30 a.m. D.C. Poli DC officer sentenced to 2 years probation in 2019 sex abuse case 09/01/2024 08:28am • A D.C. police officer was sentenced Friday to two years probation for sexually assaulting a client who was receiving therapeutic services from him in Northwest D.C. in 2019. Pearce Then, of Adelphi, Maryland, plead guilty in June to one charge of attempted first-degree sexual abuse of a patient o Beltsville man arrested in connection with hit-and-run death of DC woman 08/31/2024 05:46pm • A Beltsville, Maryland, man was arrested and charged Friday in connection with the deadly pedestrian hit-and-run that happened in Bladensburg and claimed the life of a 64-year-old D.C. woman. Bladensburg police say they arrested Jerome Michael Phillip Young, 42, on a warrant from Prince George's More child sex abuse charges for Reston man accused of assault 08/31/2024 05:25pm • A Reston, Virginia, man is facing more charges after he was arrested earlier in August for allegedly sexually assaulting a child in a store at a nearby shopping center. Fairfax County police busted Arturo Elmore-Adon, 25, for aggravated sexual battery and unlawful creation of an image of another Loudoun judge arrested for alleged public intoxication in Leesburg 08/31/2024 04:21pm • A sitting judge in Loudoun County, Virginia, was arrested and charged with public intoxication, Leesburg police said Saturday. According to authorities, Charles F. Koehler Jr. was taken into custody around 1:30 a.m. after police "responded to a report of an individual walking down the Leesburg By