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Metro increasing special police officer patrols on buses, trains 03/04/2024 06:35pm • Special police officers wearing vests have started patrolling Metro trains and buses during trips as part of the transit agency's push to increase security. During the agency's board meeting last month, WMATA General Manager and CEO Randy Clarke said the use of special police officers enables the In the shadow of Capital One Arena: Chinese residents contemplate Capitals, Wizards move 03/04/2024 04:44am • In D.C.’s Chinatown, the paifang arch signals that you’ve arrived at a place of historical significance disparate from the political machine of the nation’s capital. Down the block from the Friendship Arch looms Capital One Arena, home of the Washington Capitals and Washington Wizards, who Two fragile DC neighborhoods hang in the balance as the Wizards and Capitals consider leaving town 03/04/2024 04:35am • WASHINGTON (AP) — Already struggling to keep his Chinatown bar afloat, Yousef Tellawi felt a sense of impending doom when he learned that the owner of Washington's Capitals and Wizards wanted to move the teams out of the neighborhood and into northern Virginia. The departure of the teams from t Police searching for man who left severely emaciated dog at Woodbridge park 03/03/2024 11:04pm • Police are searching for a man in a white Range Rover who dumped a severely emaciated dog at a park in south Woodbridge over the weekend. On Sunday just before 11:30 a.m., a good Samaritan brought the male, mixed-breed hound to Prince William County Animal Services after finding him at C. Lacey C Minor critically injured in Metrobus crash in Virginia, police say 03/03/2024 10:56pm • Fairfax County, Virginia, police are investigating a crash involving a sedan and a Metro bus that injured an unidentified minor Sunday evening. According to a statement from the department, the crash happened just after 4 p.m. near the intersection of Gallows Road and Anderson Drive in Merrifield Alexandria teacher confiscates loaded gun from elementary school student’s backpack 03/03/2024 03:04pm • A loaded handgun was confiscated Friday from a student at Lyles-Crouch Traditional Academy, a K-5 public school located in Old Town Alexandria, Virginia, police said. The elementary school student voluntarily informed their teacher about the weapon in their backpack, Alexandria police said in a n Maryland, Florida among states considering menthol cigarette bans as feds delay action 03/03/2024 09:57am • It was just after sunset, and the evening traffic was buzzing on Highway 50 as 24-year-old Elijah Kinlaw popped into his local Walgreens to pick up some smokes. He had just finished a long day working at a local roofing company, and he was still wearing his neon green work T-shirt and a red beanie. Landover man accused of shooting DC Housing Authority police officer held without bond 03/03/2024 09:14am • A D.C. Superior Court Judge has ordered detention without bond for a Prince George’s County, Maryland, man accused of shooting a D.C. Housing Authority police officer last week. Victor Terrill, 40, of Landover, Maryland, is charged with assaulting a police officer while armed and possessing a f Bowser, DC police chief huddle with grassroots leaders to combat crime problem 03/02/2024 06:33pm • Facing a continuous threat of violent crime — and in particular, juvenile violent crime — D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser and police Chief Pamela Smith led a public safety summit Saturday with grassroots leaders of the city. ANC commissioners from across the city sat down with Bowser and Smith at th Former DC police officer sentenced after chokeholds 03/02/2024 12:51pm • A former D.C. police officer was sentenced Friday to six months in prison after two incidents where he performed prohibited chokeholds. Mark Lamont Clark, 57, received his sentence for two counts of deprivation of civil rights, the U.S. Attorney's Office said in a news release. Clark was convi 3 additional suspects charged in Md. teen’s death last fall ordered held without bond 03/02/2024 05:20am • Three more teenagers arrested and charged in the death of a 16-year-old girl last fall will stay behind bars after a Prince George’s County, Maryland, judge deemed all three threats to the community. Those suspects include 18-year-old Cameron Anderson, 18-year-old Ramon Richardson and a 17-year Teen driver charged with manslaughter 3 months after fatal Fairfax Co. crash 03/01/2024 08:56pm • The teen driver in a suspected drunken driving crash in Fairfax County, Virginia, last year that killed a 14-year-old boy and left five other teens seriously injured, has now been charged with DUI-related manslaughter, police said Friday. The driver, who was 17 at the time of the November crash a DC teen arrested in July killing of Lyft driver who spent years helping US forces in Afghanistan 03/01/2024 05:21pm • A 15-year-old boy was arrested Friday morning in connection with the July killing of a Lyft driver in D.C., according to police. Nasrat Ahmad Yar, 31, of Alexandria, Virginia, was fatally shot on July 3 in the 400 block of 11th Street NE. The teen is charged with felony murder while armed in Ahma Arlington neighborhood rallies as police investigate possible hate crime 03/01/2024 04:29pm • After news that graffiti that included swastikas and a racial slur appeared outside several homes in Arlington, Virginia, a group of residents held a rally to support each other and make clear that hate-related acts are not welcome in their community. Friday morning, dozens of residents gathered Ex-prosecutor Buta Biberaj says she will continue to have voice in Loudoun County as private attorney 03/01/2024 01:42pm • Buta Biberaj, who was elected Loudoun County Commonweath's Attorney in 2019 — one of a wave of "progressive prosecutors" in Northern Virginia — tells WTOP she plans to be "much more vocal in what I see as being just and unjust," in her new role as a private attorney. Biberaj was defeated in h