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National Prescription Drug Take Back Day: Where to safely discard your medications in the DC area 04/27/2024 09:33am • People across the D.C. area are being encouraged to remove medications no longer necessary from their homes and dispose them at a National Prescription Drug Take Back Day location between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. Saturday. The Drug Enforcement Administration's National Prescription Drug Take Back Day i Student protesters camp out on GWU's campus as Israel-Hamas war protests continue nationwide 04/26/2024 11:45pm • Student protesters camped out on George Washington University’s campus Friday as demonstrations over the Israel-Hamas war continued for a second day after both Georgetown University and GWU saw hundreds rally on their campuses. Shortly before 4 p.m. Friday, The Hatchet, the GW student newsp Metrobus strikes car, tree in Northeast DC, leaving multiple injured 04/26/2024 10:59pm • A crash involving a Metrobus closed down a section of North Capitol Street near L Street Northeast in D.C. on Friday night. The bus, a Route 80 bus headed north to Fort Totten, reportedly collided with a sedan before hitting a tree. Update crash involving Metrobus & sedan North Capitol &am Youth curfew at National Harbor now in effect 04/26/2024 05:45pm • A youth curfew is now in effect at National Harbor in Prince George's County, Maryland. Unaccompanied kids and teens who are 16 and younger aren’t allowed there on Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights from 5 p.m. to 6 a.m. The first time a kid is caught unsupervised will come with a warning. Afte Fairfax Co. police say 'Road Shark' campaign is making roads safer. WTOP got an up-close look at how it works 04/26/2024 05:35pm • With his car facing a stretch of Columbia Pike in Annandale, Virginia, Friday afternoon, Fairfax County Police Officer Kevin Gehr rolled his window down. He held what's called a lidar (light detection and ranging) gun, which he used to detect the speeds of oncoming traffic at a distance. The Driver in crash that killed 2 Oakton HS students gets 4 years in prison 04/26/2024 05:20pm • A 20-year-old man who was driving more than double the speed limit when he crashed in June 2022, killing two Oakton High School students, was sentenced to four years in prison Friday. Usman Shahid was 18 at the time of the crash that killed 14-year-old Ada Gabriela Martinez Nolasco and 15-year-ol Baltimore port workers receive state aid, slowly get back to work 04/26/2024 05:10pm • More on the Baltimore Key Bridge collapse The latest on the Key Bridge collapse and recovery in Baltimore Latest photos from the Patapsco: From Key Bridge collapse to recovery efforts WATCH LIVE: Key Bridge removal, cleanup begins in Baltimore Things are slowly getting back to normal Heads up, drivers: Road closures in DC for 5K on Saturday 04/26/2024 12:51pm • There is plenty going on in the District this weekend, as lovely spring weather finally begins to stick. Make sure to keep these road closures in mind as you are traveling to your Saturday plans. The PanCAN PurpleStride 5K will be taking place in downtown D.C. to honor those affected by pancreati 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