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Only on WTOP: Maryland Gov. Wes Moore says state is still mourning 1 week after Baltimore bridge collapse 04/02/2024 05:00pm • Tuesday marks one week since tragedy forever changed the landscape in Baltimore and Maryland. In the overnight hours last Tuesday, a huge container ship hit the Key Bridge causing most of it to fall like a deck of cards into the Patapsco River. Six construction workers were killed in the colla Body camera footage shows officers take down rabid coyote that attacked 2 in Montgomery Co. 04/02/2024 03:20pm • The Maryland-National Capital Park Police have released body camera footage from officers killing a rabid coyote that they said attacked people who were out walking last Thursday. The video shows several officers with handguns and rifles drawn looking for the animal on a trail near Dustin Roa Man injured after being shot by police in Northeast DC 04/02/2024 07:13am • A man was injured after he was shot by a police officer Monday night in Northeast D.C. According to D.C. police, members of the Violent Crime Suppression Unit were in the area of Bladensburg Road and V Street at around 9 p.m. when they saw a group of men engaged in "some sort of altercation." Fairfax Co. au pair charged in fetish website killing visited gun range with victim's husband, prosecutors say 04/01/2024 06:30pm • Prosecutors say that the au pair charged with fatally shooting a man inside a Fairfax County house where a woman was also stabbed to death last year visited a shooting range with the woman's husband just a few months before the bizarre double slaying. District Court Judge Michael Lindner on Monda 4 hospitalized after racing vehicles crash along I-395, Virginia police say 04/01/2024 07:59am • EDITOR'S NOTE: This story has been changed to reflect the incident's correct location on Interstate 395. It previously stated the incident occurred on the Capital Beltway. A vehicle race on Interstate 395 has ended with at least four people hospitalized, according to Virginia State Police. Th Easter eggs roll onto White House lawn ��� and road closures roll out in downtown DC 04/01/2024 12:06am • Spring and Easter brings the White House Easter Egg roll to D.C. and the traffic closures that come along with it. About 40,000 people��are expected to participate in Monday���s ���EGG-ucation���-themed White House Easter Egg Roll. That's about 10,000 more than last year. First Lady Jill B Prince George's Co. man dead after DC tunnel crash at Massachusetts Avenue exit 03/31/2024 05:47pm • A Prince George's County, Maryland, man is dead after his car struck a light pole, following an initial hit-and-run crash with another vehicle in a D.C. tunnel on Friday, police said. Ronald Jerome Jordan Jr., 48, of Capitol Heights, was driving a Malibu northbound in the Third Street Tunnel when Metro board seeks new members for police oversight panel 03/31/2024 02:58pm • The Metro Board of Directors first approved its Investigations Review Panel in June 2020 in the wake of protests surrounding the killing of George Floyd, increased complaints of excessive force and selective enforcement concerns. Now, the group that made multiple recommendations to the Metro Tran 'No room for human error': Prince William Co. to launch automated public safety assessment tool 03/31/2024 12:57pm • When a person is charged with a crime, it can take months before a trial begins ��� now, Prince William County in Virginia is preparing to launch a new tool to help judges determine if the person can safely be released back into the community in the meantime. The Public Safety Assessment (PSA 1 dead in Northeast DC crash, police say 03/31/2024 05:40am • D.C. police are investigating a fiery vehicle collision on Interstate 295 that killed one person and injured another Friday morning. Witnesses said events leading to the collision began at around 6:50 a.m. when the driver of a Dodge Ram 1500 pick-up truck began speeding northbound along I-295, ac Man in custody after deadly Fairfax Co. shooting 03/31/2024 05:06am • A man faces a murder charge after what Fairfax County police said was a "domestic-related fatal shooting" in Mosby Woods, Virginia. Officers responded to the 10400 block of Viera Lane around 9 p.m. Friday for a shooting, according to Fairfax County police. Police said a woman told officers tha Spring baby boom: Fairfax County asks residents to protect the youngest wildlife 03/31/2024 04:35am • New buds on trees signal a baby boom of wildlife in many backyards across the D.C. area. Spring is the season that wildlife welcome their furry babies ��� and also the time Fairfax County���s Animal Protection and Wildlife Management office in Virginia receives an uptick in calls from people In Key Bridge collapse, Baltimore lost a piece of its cultural identity 03/31/2024 12:03am • BALTIMORE (AP) ��� Generations of Maryland workers ��� longshoremen, seafarers, steelworkers and crabbers whose livelihoods depend on Baltimore���s port ��� watched in disbelief last week as an iconic symbol of their maritime culture crumbled into the Patapsco River. The deadly collapse of the hi 3 DC men plead guilty in 2018 shooting of father and 14-year-old son 03/30/2024 08:11pm • More than five years after a 14-year-old boy and his father were shot in Northeast D.C., which left the teen dead, three men have pleaded guilty in the shooting police say was a case of mistaken identity. Jamal Matthews, Darnell Savoy and Stefon Freshley, all of D.C., pleaded guilty to the Dec. 2 DC-area rapper fatally shot while working at cannabis dispensary in Northwest DC 03/30/2024 03:25pm • A D.C.-area rapper was shot to death Wednesday while working at a cannabis dispensary in D.C. ��� despite cooperating with the robbers, according to investigators. D.C. police said Philip Prendergast, 41, of Silver Spring, Maryland, was struck by gunfire while working in the 5100 block of Georgia