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Top 10 most popular videos on WTOP in 2023 12/29/2023 04:27am • In 2023, everyone could get their 15 minutes of fame — whether they wanted it or not. Only in the case of viral videos on WTOP's social media platforms, those 15 minutes last roughly 90 seconds or so. To cap off the year, we compiled a list of our 10 most-played videos on Instagram, from fun an Democrats in Prince George’s County select appointee to vacant state house seat 12/28/2023 11:37pm • The Prince George’s County Democratic Central Committee selected Denise Roberts on Thursday to fill a vacant seat in the House of Delegates. The central committee will forward Roberts’ name to Gov. Wes Moore (D), who has up to 15 days to confirm the appointment. Roberts, who worked as comm DC city administrator speaks on combating 'stubborn' spike of violent crime 12/28/2023 11:00pm • As a new year approaches, the District is set to end 2023 with a 39% increase in violent crime — and the numbers, according to D.C. police, would include the highest number of homicides the city has seen in 20 years. A total of 199 homicides took place in D.C. in 2022; as of December 28 of this Prince William County teacher arrested for assault on 9-year-old girl 12/28/2023 10:51pm • A teacher at Marshall Elementary School in Prince William County was arrested Wednesday for assaulting a 9-year-old student. The incident happened Nov. 29 at Marshall Elementary School at 12505 Kahns Road, police said. The teacher, identified as Christine Annette Mitchell, 60, of Manassas, has b Suspect identified in Georgia Avenue-Petworth Metro shooting 12/28/2023 09:36pm • A suspect in the Dec. 8 shooting of a teenage boy inside of the Georgia Avenue-Petworth Metro station has been identified, the U.S. Marshals Service announced in a release Thursday. Officials say 25-year-old Jaleel Fowler is wanted for shooting and injuring the boy, who was transported to a hospi Reston man charged with filing false stabbing report, embezzlement in Sterling 12/28/2023 05:44pm • A man who claimed he was stabbed by two masked strangers outside Dulles Town Center in November now faces charges of filing a false report and embezzlement from the mall's Sports Nation store where he worked. On Nov. 10, Fawad Fafa, 44, filed a report with the Loudoun County Sheriff's Office clai Teen killed in Australia shark attack 12/28/2023 03:09pm • A teenage boy was killed in a Thursday shark attack, officials said. South Australia Police responded to reports of a shark attack around 1:30 p.m. local time, authorities said. The teen was fatally attacked near Ethel Beach in the Innes National Park, about 180 miles west of Adelaide. "Sadly Why buying gift cards may be 'perilous,' and how can you protect yourself 12/28/2023 02:49pm • Scammers are at it again — this time, they're targeting gift cards. Police say gift cards are being stolen from area stores. The scammer will copy the numbers and security codes, then reseal the gift cards and place them back on the shelves. When anyone then loads money onto that gift card, Fairfax Co. police sting operation catches 10 accused child predators 12/28/2023 02:23pm • Ten men are in custody in Fairfax County, Virginia, after meeting with undercover detectives with the intent to commit an illegal sex act with a minor, according to police. Fairfax County Police Chief Kevin Davis said in the three-day operation conducted in early December, detectives from the dep 2 men arrested in Fairfax Co. for 'fraud ring' involving altered gift cards 12/28/2023 01:14pm • Two men were arrested and charged for altering gift cards at two Target stores in Virginia as part of a "complex fraud ring," according to Fairfax County police. Police were contacted by the Target store in the Springfield Town Center about two men who they believed were altering gift cards in th Woman critically injured in Fairfax Co. hit-and-run 12/28/2023 08:31am • A woman is critically injured after being hit by a vehicle Wednesday night in Fairfax County, Virginia, and police are looking for the driver. The crash happened around 9 p.m. at the intersection of Huntsman Boulevard and Bridle Wood Drive in Burke. Police said the woman was hit by a white Chevy EXCLUSIVE: American prisoner Paul Whelan fears 'being left behind a third time' 12/28/2023 05:05am • On the fifth anniversary of his arrest in Moscow, American prisoner Paul Whelan is worried the U.S. government will overlook him again. During one of several phone calls to this reporter over the Christmas holiday, he said, “At this point, the five-year mark, I'm extremely concerned about being 87-year-old man fatally struck in Reston crosswalk identified 12/27/2023 05:29pm • A man killed while walking "against the signal" in a crosswalk in Reston, Virginia, on Tuesday morning has been identified by Fairfax County police. Peter McCandless, 87, of Reston, was attempting to cross the southbound lanes of Reston Parkway from west to east in the crosswalk but "against the Montgomery Co. police identify Rockville woman struck, killed by 2 drivers 12/27/2023 04:25pm • A 70-year-old woman is dead after being struck by two vehicles while crossing a street Tuesday night in Rockville, Maryland. Rockville City Police and Montgomery County Fire Rescue responded to reports of a crash in the area of Veirs Mill Road and Atlantic Avenue around 6:50 p.m., authorities sai Reagan National Airport sets record after Bethesda woman caught with loaded gun in carry-on 12/27/2023 11:23am • Transportation Security Administration agents at Reagan National Airport in Arlington, Virginia, caught another passenger with a handgun at a security checkpoint on Christmas Eve — setting another record for most guns caught at the airport in a single year. A woman from Bethesda, Maryland, had