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Driver arrested after fatal hit and run in Silver Spring 04/26/2024 07:19am • The driver involved in a fatal hit-and-run incident in Silver Spring, Maryland, earlier this month has been arrested. On Wednesday, Montgomery County police took 42-year-old Gilver Yuviny Zelaya Diaz into custody for his involvement in a hit-and-run collision that left Jacques Price, 26, dead on Student protests over Israel-Hamas war arrive at DC campuses 04/25/2024 10:35pm • Campus protests over the Israel-Hamas war arrived in D.C. with both Georgetown University and George Washington University seeing hundreds rally. GWU had wanted protesters to clear out by 7 p.m. — and it requested police to get involved — but WTOP's Scott Gelman reported that a D.C. polic Drones by the numbers: How the Montgomery Co. police department's airborne tools are performing 04/25/2024 10:30pm • They didn't graduate from the police academy, they don't get overtime, but they're incredibly quick when it comes to getting on the scene after a 911 call. Data from the Montgomery County Police Department's dashboard on the "drones as first responder" program shows that overall arrival times for 21 senior members of DC police to be dismissed — more than half due to 'serious misconduct' 04/25/2024 07:01pm • More than 20 senior members of D.C.'s police department are on the way out. A total of 21 senior police officers or senior sergeants will be leaving the department on April 30, according to D.C. supervisory public affairs specialist Thomas Lynch. Senior officers are those who've retired from the 3 killed in 3 separate shootings in less than 2-hour span across DC 04/25/2024 04:08pm • Three people are dead after three separate overnight shootings that happened within the span of two hours across D.C., police said in a news conference Thursday. A 17-year-old boy from D.C., a 25-year-old man and a 38-year-old man from Temple Hills, Maryland, were killed in the shootings, which D Prince George's Co. to enforce youth curfew at National Harbor starting Friday 04/25/2024 03:18pm • Following a flurry of incidents involving teenagers at National Harbor, Prince George's County Executive Angela Alsobrooks said that a youth curfew will be reinstated to control crime along the waterfront starting Friday evening. Most recently, a group of around 800 young people at the National H Police officer hospitalized after motorcycle crash in DC's Navy Yard 04/25/2024 10:36am • A D.C. police officer is in the hospital following a crash Thursday morning in the Navy Yard neighborhood. Police told WTOP the officer was riding a police motorcycle when they were hit by a car just before 8 a.m. at the 400 Block of M Street in Southeast D.C. The officer was transported to a 'Honored and blessed': Md. native Jordan Wallace on becoming first African American to compete in Porsche Carrera Cup North America 04/25/2024 05:44am • A D.C.-area native is breaking barriers in the sport of racing: In March, Jordan Wallace became the first African American to compete in the Porsche Carrera Cup North America. "It never really registered that I would be the first African American to compete in the series or anything like that DC man wanted in connection with Fort Totten shooting that left 5-year-old girl, father wounded 04/24/2024 11:17pm • D.C. police are asking for help in finding a suspect in the late Tuesday night shooting of a man and his 5-year-old daughter in the Fort Totten neighborhood of Northeast D.C. Authorities have identified 29-year-old Alante Partlow, of Northeast, as the suspect in the shooting and he's wanted on a Police: Fairfax Co. middle school counselor headbutted student 04/24/2024 01:50pm • A Fairfax County, Virginia, middle school counselor has been charged with assault after police said he headbutted a student that called him a name inside a school cafeteria. Craig Small, 44, was arrested last Friday after he allegedly assaulted an 11-year-old boy at Glasgow Middle School in Linco National Harbor melee spurs 'targeted curfew' in Prince George's Co.; could pass next week 04/24/2024 11:25am • After last weekend's melee at National Harbor involving dozens of teenagers, the Prince George's County Council is a step closer to passing emergency legislation that could be voted on next week, creating a targeted youth curfew. The bill, which was approved by the Committee of the Whole on Tuesd Father and 5-year-old daughter shot in Northeast DC 04/24/2024 09:30am • A man and his young daughter are in the hospital Wednesday morning after being shot in the Fort Totten neighborhood of Northeast D.C. Police told WTOP that an altercation broke out around midnight between the father and another person in the 4800 block of North Capitol Street NE. Officers believe With overall US crime down double digits, what’s boosting violent crime rates in Prince George’s Co.? 04/24/2024 04:16am • Nationwide, crime is trending generally down, and that’s the case in Prince George’s County, Maryland, too — but not when it comes to violent crime, which county police said is up so far this year. At a Monday afternoon hearing, Prince George's County Police Chief Malik Aziz offered a quick Sterling warehouse fire ruled accidental by Loudoun Co. fire officials 04/23/2024 08:26pm • A warehouse fire broke out Monday afternoon in Sterling, Virginia, sending black smoke into the sky that was visible from miles away. (Courtesy Loudoun County Fire and Rescue) The warehouse fire in Sterling, Virginia, that sent black smoke billowing into the sky and triggered a significant emerg Army Corps of Engineers official on 'Herculean task' of Baltimore Key Bridge recovery, salvage efforts 04/23/2024 03:44pm • Tuesday marks four weeks since tragedy hit Baltimore, Maryland, and six lives were lost when a huge container ship slammed into the Key Bridge, causing most of the structure to collapse into the Patapsco River. Dozens of people have been working around the clock to try and get the tens of thousan