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Police who make house calls: Takoma Park's vacant home checks 12/19/2023 10:25pm • Before heading out of town for the holidays, Takoma Park, Maryland, residents can sign up for a very targeted neighborhood watch: one where police swing by their homes to make sure not a creature is stirring ��� or stealing. The Takoma Park Police Department has been providing the free service si 'It���s a journey': Montgomery Co. police sergeant remains positive, on road to recovery after losing both legs 12/19/2023 10:00pm • Patrick Kepp knows his life is different now ��� he���s already experienced things he���s only read about or seen on TV. However, the veteran Montgomery County, Maryland, police sergeant never expected he would require a form of ���critical care��� or need to learn how to walk again. Early on the ���Unacceptable���: How DC business leaders are working together in response to crime 12/19/2023 09:12pm • Leaders from several local and national retail stores convened for a retail theft meeting Monday, discussing various ways they are responding to a rise in theft and other crime across the District. At-large Council member Kenyan McDuffie, who chairs the D.C. Council���s Committee on Business and DC police identify, charge man shot by officer near Capital One Arena 12/19/2023 08:25pm • D.C. police have identified the man shot by a police officer Monday night during what it says was an "investigative stop" in the Penn Quarter neighborhood. The department said its force investigation team was on a high visibility patrol around 8:30 p.m. when the incident happened along the 900 bl Presidential motorcade fuels rush hour traffic delays in DC area 12/19/2023 06:48pm • President Biden's motorcade from the White House to and from a campaign reception in Bethesda, Maryland, fueled major traffic delays during Tuesday evening's rush-hour in the D.C. area. As of 6:30 p.m., the Capital Beltway's Outer Loop had reopened between River Road and the American Legion bridg Teen involved in deadly DC crash involving stolen car pleads guilty 12/19/2023 05:20pm • A teenage girl who prosecutors said was among a group of teens involved in the deadly crash of a carjacked vehicle in October has pleaded guilty in the case. The girl was arrested after police said members of the group, in two stolen cars, failed to navigate a traffic circle in the Brentwood sect Police: DC man arrested after 911 call confessing to fatal shooting of 2 brothers 12/19/2023 01:33pm • A D.C. man was arrested Monday for shooting and killing two brothers after a verbal altercation last week. Two brothers, 28-year-old Octavio Quintano and 35-year-old Osmine Quintano were found shot to death behind an SUV on 4th Street in Northeast just after midnight on Dec. 12, according to D.C. Getting out that cone to save a parking space? Takoma Park police want you to think twice 12/19/2023 08:25am • If you're looking to save a parking space this holiday season for you or your guests, city officials in Maryland are saying that's not a good idea. If you have a cone, a chair or maybe a friend helping you save a parking spot, police in Takoma Park say you should think twice. They have receive Suspects used fire extinguisher during Chanel store robbery in DC, police say 12/18/2023 09:50pm • Investigators in D.C. have released a photo of one suspect in a group of six people wanted for using a fire extinguisher to carry out a robbery in downtown's CityCenterDC, according to police. The robbery of a Chanel store, which is being described as flash-mob style, happened just after 5:30 p.m Millions of dollars at stake if Wizards, Capitals move, DC think-tank says 12/18/2023 09:24pm • There are thousands of jobs and millions of dollars in revenue at stake if Capital One Arena hosts fewer events as a result of the Washington Capitals and Wizards moving to Northern Virginia, according to a new analysis from the D.C. Policy Center. When the Capital One Arena opened in 1997, it re US Park Police release body camera footage of deadly DC shooting 12/18/2023 08:28pm • Nearly a month after a deadly exchange of gunfire injured one U.S. Park Police officer and killed a D.C. resident, body camera footage from the department's Office of the Inspector General is shedding some light on the moments leading up to the shooting. Park Police said the footage, released Mon New training for DC police aimed at helping those with mental health issues 12/18/2023 06:19pm • All D.C. police officers and recruits will receive what the department is calling "new and innovative" training aimed at lowering the temperature in situations involving people dealing with a mental health crisis. The Integrating Communications, Assessment, and Tactics (ICAT) training program wil Court docs: Man in U-Haul sprayed substance, yelled antisemitic phrase outside DC synagogue 12/18/2023 04:26pm • A man allegedly yelled an antisemitic phrase and sprayed people with an unknown substance during an attack outside a Georgetown synagogue Sunday morning, according to court documents. Brent Wood is accused of driving a U-Haul van around security poles and parking directly on the sidewalk in front Driver rescued after being swept away by floodwaters, clinging to tree in Montgomery Co. 12/18/2023 02:53pm • Heavy rains roared into the D.C. region, leaving behind slippery roads and flooding ��� including in Montgomery County, Maryland, where one driver was swept away by floodwater and rescued clinging to a tree. In the Maryland suburb, emergency crews performed two water rescues, including one on Bea 1 dead, 3 seriously injured in Montgomery Co. crash 12/18/2023 01:09pm • One person is dead and three others are seriously injured after a three-car crash Sunday in Olney, Maryland. The crash took place on the eastbound lane of the Intercounty Connector (Route 200), around Exit 8. Maryland Transportation Authority police were called to the scene around 4 a.m., accordi