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Details of Loudoun Co. Parkway emergency landing outlined in NTSB preliminary report 02/17/2024 02:50pm • A preliminary report from the National Transportation Safety Board is providing more insight into the emergency landing of a small commuter plane on the Loudoun County Parkway in Virginia last month. On Jan. 19, the plane's two pilots were forced to land their disabled Southern Airways Express Cess Owner of Southeast DC home where Valentine's Day standoff occurred speaks out 02/17/2024 08:53am • The owner of a Southeast D.C. home on Hanna Place, where three D.C. police officers were shot at and injured during an hourslong standoff on Valentine's Day, said she tried to evict the man staying in her home for months. “I have been to hell and back," Gail Perkins, owner of the property, said Man arrested after stealing Maryland State Highway truck sparks high-speed chase, injuring 1 driver and 4 officers 02/16/2024 11:59pm • The driver who led Maryland troopers on a chase along Route 29 and through the surrounding suburban neighborhoods in a stolen state highway help truck has been arrested. Officials said Flavio Cesar Lanuza, 27, of Laurel, Maryland, struck more than a dozen drivers in the state's CHART vehicle bef Teenager arrested for violent crimes targeting Latino neighborhoods, DC police says 02/16/2024 10:15pm • D.C. police say they've arrested a teenager in connection with a string of armed robberies that targeted Latino communities in Northwest. Kwesi Pyne, 18, of Takoma Park, was arrested Thursday morning, Cmdr. James Boteler said at a news conference. With the help of a community tip suggesting th Police ID victims in Northeast DC triple homicide 02/16/2024 08:43pm • Police identified the three shooting victims who were found dead in Northeast D.C. on Wednesday night. D.C. police responded to a report of an unconscious person in the 5000 block of Jay Street NE at 7:38 p.m. on Feb. 14. There, officers found two women and one man dead from gunshot wounds ins Teen hospitalized after shooting at Glenmont Metro Station 02/16/2024 06:34pm • A teen is in the hospital Friday after a shooting at Glenmont Metro Station in Montgomery County, Maryland. Police said the shooting happened around 4 p.m. Friday at the top level of the parking garage there. Metro Transit Police say the victim — a teenage boy — was taken to the hospital w How busy was Prince George’s County’s police accountability board in year one? 02/16/2024 03:05pm • Calls for police oversight have grown louder in recent years, leading the state of Maryland to mandate the creation of police accountability boards in 2022. But after all the fiery rhetoric, just how often were cops in Prince George’s County actually going rogue? In 2023, the county's Police Ac 2 teenage boys charged with murder in fatal shooting of Md. toddler 02/16/2024 03:01pm • Two Maryland teenagers have been arrested and charged in connection with the shooting death of a toddler in the Langley Park neighborhood of Prince George's County earlier this month. A 15-year-old boy from Takoma Park and a 16-year-old boy from Hyattsville are charged as adults with first- and s 'We often see really hard things': DC's humane law enforcement officers fight back against animal cruelty 02/15/2024 08:50pm • The people who answer calls and investigate cases of animal cruelty in the District of Columbia aren't police, but they are involved in enforcing laws regarding the treatment of animals. And they have a tough — and sometimes dangerous — job. "The thing that keeps me up at night is the safe Man accused of shooting 3 officers had 31 dogs in his DC home. Neighbors say he punched and neglected them 02/15/2024 05:18pm • Before allegedly shooting three D.C. police officers, kicking off an hourslong barricade in his home Wednesday, a Southeast resident was facing animal cruelty charges tied to accusations he repeatedly punched one of his dogs and kept dozens of others in unsanitary conditions, according to court reco His drug dealer was in a wheelchair. He was just convicted of robbing and killing him 02/15/2024 04:20pm • A New Carrollton, Maryland, teenager was found guilty of murder and a long list of other charges this week in connection with the death of a man in a wheelchair who was making a marijuana delivery for a friend. It happened July 1 outside of apartments along Good Luck Road in Lanham, not far from Maryland drives forward — to shut down dangerous street racing 02/15/2024 01:18pm • After dozens of dangerous street racing incidents in the past year, Maryland lawmakers are driving a bill to stop it. Maryland Sen. Pam Beidle, who represents Anne Arundel County, says there have been at least 139 major street racing incidents in the past 12 months in the state. "It’s happen Uncle remembers Va. trade school stabbing victim who had 'heart of a lion' 02/15/2024 10:20am • The family of a man killed by a fellow student at a Manassas, Virginia, trade school on Tuesday said he died trying to stop the attack. Elijah Islam Safadi, 23, of Manassas, Virginia, was fatally stabbed at a trade school on Tuesday. (Courtesy Chris Montanez) Elijah Safadi, 23, was an electri 3 people found dead in Northeast DC apartment 02/15/2024 10:20am • Two women and a man were found dead in an apartment in Northeast D.C. Wednesday night, according to authorities. Ramey Kyle, assistant chief of D.C. police, outlined at a press conference that night how police had found the three people during a "wellness check." Officers responded to a call a 1 dead, 2 injured after shooting near Chinese carryout in Northeast DC 02/15/2024 09:30am • EDITOR'S NOTE: This report has been updated to reflect the latest health statuses of those who were injured in Wednesday's shooting.  Three people were shot during a shooting at a Chinese carryout restaurant in Northeast D.C. Wednesday night. According to D.C. police, officers responded to re