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Man sentenced to 26 years for shooting pregnant woman in Southeast DC 02/03/2024 02:32pm • A man was sentenced to 26 years in prison Friday for his role in a 2018 shooting in Southeast D.C. that left a pregnant woman critically wounded. Joshua Hemphill, 32, was found guilty on June 7, 2023, after being charged with assault with intent to kill while armed with a gun. Prosecutors said 1 dead after single-car crash closes part of BW Parkway in Annapolis Junction 02/03/2024 11:01am • A person is dead after a one car crash in Anne Arundel County on Saturday morning. The accident happened at about 6 a.m. on the Baltimore-Washington Parkway going southbound by the Annapolis Junction. The individual was pronounced dead on the scene, according to U.S. Park Police. The southb Washington Co. sheriff's office sued again in bizarre catfish, murder, kidnapping case involving one of its deputies 02/02/2024 10:43pm • A lawsuit for $50 million is being filed against the Washington County, Virginia, Sheriff's Office as part of the continuing fallout from a bizarre and horrific 2022 case involving a triple murder, kidnapping, abduction, suicide and arson. The lawsuit was filed through the Virginia law firm Breit Fairfax Co. police seek suspects in string of shopping center burglaries 02/02/2024 10:33pm • Fairfax County, Virginia, police are searching for suspects in connection with a series of burglaries at two shopping centers. Since Dec. 30, police said there have been five burglaries and an attempted burglary reported at the Woodlawn and Sacramento Shopping Centers. On Tuesday, police said Avast ye, porch pirates: DC police are cracking down 02/02/2024 08:24pm • Porch package thieves beware: D.C. police are using a new method to track stolen packages, with the help of Apple AirTags. Commander Sylvan Altieri, with D.C. police's Fifth District, says the new plan to fight porch package pilfering revolves around strategically planted AirTags that the Metropo 3 DC stores were firebombed last summer. An unsealed indictment uncovers a 4th in Maryland 02/02/2024 05:13pm • Federal indictments against two men accused of detonating explosives at four different businesses around the D.C. region last summer have been unsealed after one of the men was extradited to D.C. this week. Three D.C. businesses — a bank in Northeast’s Brentwood neighborhood, a Nike store on North Carolina woman sitting in car with dog fatally shot in Prince William County 02/02/2024 04:59pm • A North Carolina woman sitting in her car with her dog near a Dale City, Virginia, apartment complex was fatally shot early Friday morning, according to authorities. Around 2:00 a.m. Prince William County police responded to reports of the shooting in the area of Brickwood Drive and Bronson Cour 1-year prison sentence for ex-Metro transit officer in beating of unarmed rider 02/02/2024 12:59pm • A former D.C. Metro Transit Police Department officer has been sentenced to a year in prison for beating an unarmed rider with a metal baton in 2018. Andra Vance, 48, was sentenced Wednesday to one year and one day in prison, plus a year of supervised release, according to a news release from the Gas leak prompts Bethesda building evacuation, officials say 02/01/2024 11:25pm • A 15-story office building in Bethesda, Maryland, was evacuated Thursday evening as a precaution following a gas leak on the street in front of the structure, according to Montgomery County Fire and EMS. The leak was in front of a building located at 7501 Wisconsin Avenue near East West Highway, Man suspected of breaking into apartment fatally shot by Prince George's Co. officer, police chief says 02/01/2024 09:50pm • A man accused of breaking and entering into a Maryland apartment was fatally shot when confronted by a Prince George's County police officer on Thursday evening, according to police. The shooting happened when police were responding to a 911 call about a reported break in just before 5:30 p.m. in What’s being done to get more crossing guards hired in Prince George’s Co. 02/01/2024 09:30pm • For years, Prince George’s County, Maryland, has been short dozens of crossing guards to help kids walk to school safely. Even now, county leaders said only about half their routes are filled, and they need to hire almost 30 more just to feel comfortable about where things stand. While hiring h DC police release photo of suspect's vehicle in Dupont Circle shooting 02/01/2024 06:31pm • A vehicle investigators believe belongs to the suspect who shot a man in Dupont Circle was caught by a surveillance camera, and D.C. police released an image of the SUV Wednesday with hopes of finding the shooter. The suspect shot a man inside of a vehicle in Northwest at around 4 p.m. Tuesday, l Girl stabbed with box cutter during fight at Montgomery County middle school 02/01/2024 04:52pm • A girl was stabbed during a fight Thursday afternoon at a Montgomery County, Maryland, middle school, according to authorities. The fight happened at Benjamin Banneker Middle School in Burtonsville just before 2 p.m., according to a Montgomery County police spokeswoman. One girl stabbed another w 23 people arrested after demonstrators block traffic in DC, briefly snarling morning commute 02/01/2024 02:30pm • Nearly two dozen people were arrested Thursday morning after Pro-Palestinian demonstrators blocked several major roadways in D.C., briefly snarling traffic Thursday morning. A total of 23 people were arrested on charges of "crowding, obstructing or incommoding" which is the legal term for blockin Lyft driver arrested for alleged assault, kicking rabbi out of ride-share in DC 02/01/2024 05:55am • A D.C. Lyft driver was arrested Wednesday in the assault of a local rabbi who police said was getting a ride from the driver. Tireek Myrick, 32, of Northwest D.C., was arrested and charged with simple assault in the case, police said. Rabbi Menachem Shemtov, director of Chabad Georgetown, sai