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Harford Co. police find DNA match in Md. mother's unsolved murder case 08/18/2023 06:40am • The sheriff's office in Harford County, Maryland, says they've found a DNA match to a suspect in the killing of a mother of five — and are now asking for the public's help to identify him. On Thursday night, Col. William Davis of the Harford County Sheriff's Office released a video of an uniden DC plans to beef up police force, crack down on curfew violators 08/18/2023 12:01am • The Metropolitan Police Department announced Thursday that it would be handing out more money as part of its ongoing effort to beef up the District's police force. Department employees who attract new officers can now receive a referral bonus, according to Pamela Smith, the city's acting police c DDOT working on plan to close part of Rhode Island Ave. in response to flash flooding 08/17/2023 10:43pm • In order to help prevent devastating flooding in the area of Northeast D.C., the District Department of Transportation told WTOP that a plan is in the works that would initiate a road closure if powerful storms are coming to the area. DDOT says it is currently working on a standard operating proc Incoming students take precautions after recent violence near Howard University's campus 08/17/2023 08:59pm • There’s nothing new about Howard University’s Safety Fair — the event is done every year as freshmen move into the campus in Northwest D.C. But this year, the event with music, a drumline and a chance for new students to connect with each other, followed a violent attack on several Howard U Md. attorney general's office releases videos of deadly police shooting of teenager suspected of stabbings 08/17/2023 06:38pm • More details are emerging from a deadly police shooting of a teenager accused of stabbing four people in Montgomery County, Maryland, last month. The Maryland Attorney General's Office on Thursday released body and dashboard camera footage from the fatal shooting of Franklin Castro Ordonez, 19, o Lawsuit against Maryland State Police claiming racial discrimination in State Fire Marshal's Office can continue 08/17/2023 10:25am • A judge has ruled there’s enough evidence to support a claim of racial discrimination by officials in the Maryland Office of the State Fire Marshal for a lawsuit to move forward. The case was filed last February against Maryland State Police and the fire marshal's office, where Deputy Chief Der 1 man killed, another injured in shooting near Columbia Heights Metro station 08/17/2023 10:05am • One man was killed and another was critically injured after a shooting outside the Columbia Heights Metro station in Northwest D.C. Officers in the area of the intersection of 14th and Irving streets heard gunshots and later found a man suffering from a gunshot wound around 9:20 p.m. The man, ide Before escaped Md. prison inmate was taken into custody, local news crew appears to have spotted him 08/17/2023 04:47am • A Maryland prison inmate who escaped a transport van in Howard County early Wednesday has been taken into custody after an hours-long search, Maryland State Police say. The inmate, identified by authorities as 38-year-old Randy James Morris, escaped the van around 8:30 a.m. when it was stopped ne 4 clerks face fines after underage vaping operation at more than 2 dozen stores in Virginia 08/16/2023 06:51pm • Four store clerks in Leesburg, Virginia, are facing fines after police say they were caught selling tobacco vaping products to underage customers. The Leesburg Police Department conducted an underage vaping operation at 29 tobacco retail establishments and charged clerks at four of those business When seconds matter: Take a peek inside a Fairfax Co. rescue boat 08/16/2023 05:10pm • Being out on the water on a boat can be a fun time, but it can also turn dangerous quickly. That has been happening more lately, according to Fairfax County, Virginia, police. "We've had more people getting stuck out here, whether it be capsizing or they think it's capsizing," said Maria Stec Court says two abortion protesters in DC can proceed with freedom of speech lawsuit 08/16/2023 01:08pm • Two students were arrested in August of 2020 for writing an anti-abortion message on a sidewalk. Now, a federal court ruled a lower court was wrong for dismissing their lawsuit over First Amendment rights. Erica Caporaletti and Warner DePriest chalked "Black Pre-Born Lives Matter" outside a Plann McLean company opens drone experimentation range in Virginia 08/16/2023 10:26am • MITRE cut the ribbon on a new testing range for drones in Virginia. (Courtesy Mitre) Research and development nonprofit MITRE, with dual headquarters in McLean, Virginia and Bedford, Massachusetts, cut the ribbon this week on a new drone testing range near Orange, Virginia. The facility will Fairfax Co. community members weigh in on safety after teen killed along busy roadway 08/16/2023 10:16am • Officials in Fairfax County, Virginia, are working to make Burke Centre Parkway safer and invited residents to participate in the conversation on Tuesday night as they shared about what's being done. Residents near the parkway shared concerns about aggressive driving and speeding along the busy r 2 Prince William Co. men charged in shooting of teen near public pool 08/16/2023 08:41am • Two Prince William County, Virginia, men have been arrested and charged in the shooting death of a 17-year-old boy at a community pool on Saturday. Jordan Delaney Sickles, 21, of Haymarket, and Re’Kwon Nyqualin Barnett, 18, of Gainesville, were arrested on Monday, according to a news release fr DC woman grapples with dog's drowning death: 'This could have all been prevented' 08/16/2023 04:44am • For D.C. resident Jocelyn Lobos-Segura, Monday's severe weather in the Rhode Island Avenue area of Northeast took an unimaginably tragic toll. Her one-year-old Labrador-Border Collie, Mona, was one of 10 dogs who died when a pet day care facility flooded. "I didn't know anything was going on unti