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Md. school board revives African American studies course 07/17/2024 07:59am • The Harford County Board of Education voted unanimously early Tuesday to restore an Advanced Placement course on African American studies, just weeks after canceling the class over concerns it lacked ���positive narratives��� and perpetuated ���a narrative of victimhood.��� The vote followed at l Montgomery Co. senior scammed out of $900K in gold bar 'big-money scheme' 07/16/2024 09:45pm • Scammers persuaded an 82-year-old Montgomery County, Maryland, woman to buy a fortune's worth of gold bars and then hand them over earlier this year, according to prosecutors, who said the scammers posed as federal agents working to protect her savings. Zhenyong Weng, 19, of New York City, has be DC woman accused of stealing, crashing car with ill woman inside found incompetent to stand trial 07/16/2024 08:11pm • The woman accused of stealing an SUV outside a D.C. hospital with an ill patient in the passenger seat was found incompetent to stand trial Tuesday. Kayla Kenisha Brown, 22, of Southeast, is accused of crashing the stolen car into a downtown D.C. building in early June. The passenger, 55-year-old 1 killed after small plane crashes into water on Maryland's Eastern Shore 07/16/2024 05:58pm • The pilot of a small plane died after his plane crashed into the water in Easton, Maryland, Tuesday morning, state authorities said. The pilot, who was the only person on board the twin-engine Cessna 402, reported an engine failure before the crash, the Federal Aviation Administration said earlie Where's Theo the Shih Tzu? Dog stolen from car in Southeast DC 07/16/2024 08:16am • Police are asking for the public's help in finding a dog that was stolen out of a woman's car in Southeast D.C. on Saturday. The dognapping happened around 1 p.m. on M Street near the Anacostia Community Boathouse. A woman had left her dog, a 2-year-old Shih Tzu named Theo, and her purse inside h 'Proud to come home': Montgomery Co.'s new superintendent explains the realities of the job he's taken on 07/16/2024 07:13am • The new superintendent of schools for Montgomery County, Maryland, is entering his third week on the job with the new school year beginning in just over a month. Thomas Taylor, who came from Stafford County, Virginia, now leads Maryland's largest school district, with a budget of $3.3 billion, mo Former Secret Service agent has questions about Trump's security 07/16/2024 06:47am • In the wake of the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump on Saturday, a former special agent tells WTOP that he has questions of his own about the level of Secret Service protection afforded to the Republican presidential nominee. As an agent, Matthew Doherty was a part of the DC school tries paying at-risk families as a way to reduce truancy 07/16/2024 05:39am • Some families in D.C. will soon be getting direct cash payments as part of a program that's fighting against truancy. The program is being carried out at the Social Justice School, a charter school in Northeast, where 15 families will each get $2,400 over the course of three months, with money di Following Trump assassination attempt, 'Americans need to start listening, paying attention and waking up' 07/15/2024 03:51pm • The search for answers continues after the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump in Pennsylvania on Saturday. Many questions remain unanswered about how the gunman, identified as Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, managed to get access to a nearby roof whe Maryland woman shot to death in DC park 07/15/2024 01:13pm • A 21-year-old Maryland woman was shot and killed in a Southeast D.C. park Saturday afternoon, according to D.C. police, who are now offering a reward for information. The woman was identified as Ambria Farmer, of District Heights, Maryland. Police were called to Fort Dupont Park off Minnesota Arlington police seek Jeep Cherokee owners who were almost carjacked 07/14/2024 05:04pm • Police in Arlington, Virginia, said they are looking to talk to occupants of a Jeep Cherokee who were victims of a botched carjacking attempt earlier this month where the suspect was shot by police. On July 5, investigators say that a Metro Transit police officer shot 30-year-old Mark Anthony Joh 2 dead in motorcycle crash on I-495 in Prince George's Co. 07/14/2024 04:10pm • Two people are dead after a motorcycle crash in Temple Hills, Maryland, on Saturday evening, police said. In a news release, Maryland State Police said that just before 8 p.m., troopers responded to the area of northbound Interstate 495 near Branch Avenue on a report of a crash involving a motorc Man shot, killed in Wise High School vigil shooting identified; community calls for 'a season of healing' 07/14/2024 05:22am • Police in Maryland have identified the man who was fatally shot Friday night after a vigil for Minnesota Vikings draftee Khyree Jackson and two other former students at Wise High School in Prince George's County. Shahid Omar Jr., 24, of Upper Marlboro, was killed and a woman was shot in the parki Boat crash on Potomac River injures 1, DC fire officials say 07/14/2024 05:01am • One person was injured after a boat crash on the Potomac River Saturday afternoon, according to D.C. Fire and EMS. Shortly before 3 p.m., D.C. Fire and EMS said the department received reports of a collision between a 24-foot private vessel, which was carrying two passengers, and a water taxi, wh DC-area politicians react to Trump rally shooting: 'Our nation is and must be better than this' 07/13/2024 11:20pm • Republican and Democratic leaders in the D.C. area are decrying a shooting that's being investigated as an assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump during a rally in Pennsylvania Saturday. The rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, was cut short after gunshots rang through the crowd. At lea