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Man fatally shot in the head in Northeast; DC police search for dark van 11/16/2023 10:58pm • A man has died after being shot in the head on Thursday evening in Northeast and D.C. police are looking for a van believed to be connected to the homicide. The man was critically injured when police arrived to the scene in the 2200 block of New York Avenue NE just after 5:15 p.m., a police spoke 6-year-old boy struck by FedEx driver in Montgomery Co. 11/16/2023 09:22pm • A child was injured when a FedEx truck struck him Wednesday afternoon in Silver Spring, Maryland, according to Montgomery County police. Officials told WTOP it happened at approximately 4 p.m. in the area of Manchester Road and Schuyler Road. Police responded to the report of a struck pedestrian Man arrested in suspected carjacking and shopping spree with UDC police cruiser 11/16/2023 04:09pm • A man was arrested Wednesday and accused of stealing a University of the District of Columbia police vehicle last week, according to D.C. police. Officials said in a news release that 50-year-old Donald Gladden was arrested and charged with stealing a vehicle and theft from a motor vehicle. Po 6 police officers, 90 protesters reported injured at cease-fire protest outside DNC in DC 11/16/2023 02:14pm • Violence broke out at a protest outside the Democratic National Committee headquarters in D.C. on Wednesday night with demonstrators calling for a cease-fire in Gaza. U.S. Capitol Police said six of their officers were hurt and their injuries ranged from minor cuts to being pepper-sprayed to Ex-Pentagon police officer gets 25 years for fatally shooting 2 men in parking lot in 2021 11/16/2023 01:24pm • The former off-duty Pentagon police officer who fatally shot two men in the parking lot of his Takoma Park condo building in April 2021 has been sentenced to 25 years in prison on two counts of second-degree murder. David Hall Dixon, 42, opened fire on a car in the parking lot of the Takoma Park MARC, Amtrak trains experience delays Thursday after train hits car in Prince George's Co. 11/16/2023 08:17am • Travelers using MARC and Amtrak train services will experience delays on Thursday after a train struck a car in Prince George's County, Maryland. According to the Maryland Transit Administration, a Penn Line Train train struck a car driven onto the tracks just before 8:35 p.m. Wednesday. MTA p Americans are about to spend billions shopping online. Are those packages protected? 11/15/2023 10:11pm • Between now and Christmas, Americans will spend billions of dollars on online shopping. Last year just on Black Friday, more than $9 billion was spent online. In all, CNET says about $74 billion worth of packages are going to end up on doorsteps the rest of this year. It's enough to keep porch pi 13 teens arrested in 1 day in Montgomery Co. in connection with carjackings, stolen cars 11/15/2023 06:34pm • Thirteen teens between the ages of 14 and 18 were arrested Monday in Montgomery County, Maryland, and each arrest involves a stolen or carjacked vehicle, according to police. The flurry of arrests comes at a time when county police leaders are concerned about the rising number of young people inv How you can get paid for installing security cameras in Montgomery Co. 11/15/2023 06:33pm • Soon, up to 1,000 new security cameras could be put to work to spot crime at homes and businesses across Montgomery County, Maryland. Montgomery County police Lt. Dan Helton joined council members and County Executive Marc Elrich at his weekly briefing to announce the plan that allows residents a Police say carjacker stole Amazon delivery van at gunpoint in DC then crashed in Prince George's Co. after chase 11/15/2023 11:26am • A person is in custody after allegedly stealing an Amazon delivery van at gunpoint in Southeast D.C. Tuesday night and taking police on a chase before crashing the vehicle in Prince George’s County, Maryland. D.C. police were alerted by Prince George’s County police that they were following a Md. GOP calls on Democrats to join them in getting tough on crime legislation 11/15/2023 10:36am • House and Senate Republicans called for a renewed effort to combat crime in advance of the 2024 General Assembly session. Calling crime a growing crisis, Republican leaders said it is incumbent that lawmakers act in the coming session. They called on Democrats to join with them to pass measures t 3 French Bulldogs dognapped in Southeast DC armed robbery 11/15/2023 09:46am • Three French Bulldogs were stolen in Southeast D.C. early Tuesday morning and police are asking for the public's help in finding three suspects in the armed robbery. The dogs — named Chewy, Coco and Buttercup — were taken from their owner as he was walking them in the 5200 block of East Capit Police release video of suspect shopping — with a stolen UDC police cruiser 11/15/2023 06:01am • D.C. police are asking the public for help in finding a suspect who stole a campus police vehicle from the University of the District of Columbia's Van Ness campus last week. Police said surveillance cameras around the school showed the suspect stealing the vehicle around 3:45 a.m. last Friday. T Tracy Camilla Johns, star of Spike Lee's 'She's Gotta Have It,' presents photography exhibit in Laurel 11/15/2023 04:35am • She was the lead actress in Spike Lee's breakthrough film "She's Gotta Have It" (1986). Now, Tracy Camilla Johns, 60, presents her photography exhibit at the Laurel Museum, operated by the Laurel Historical Society in Maryland where she's lived for 25 years. The exhibit runs now through Thanksgiv 100 years ago, anxiety prompted invention of yellow traffic light 11/15/2023 04:10am • Some aggressive driving behaviors never change — even as technology has morphed from mechanical to electronic, to computer-driven. Next week marks 100 years since Garrett Morgan was granted a patent for his improved traffic signal, the first signal that contained a step between "stop" and "