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Manassas City Council kills downtown-area workforce housing proposal 07/01/2023 11:41pm • This article was written by WTOP’s news partner InsideNoVa.com and republished with permission. Sign up for InsideNoVa.com’s free email subscription today. The Manassas City Council has killed a plan for affordable workforce housing near downtown over community character concerns, insisti Drive sober or get pulled over: DC police push importance of sober driving during holiday weekend 07/01/2023 04:43pm • D.C. police are reminding people to drive sober for the safety of themselves and others this holiday weekend. To further prove the point, the department said it's partnering with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to focus on avoiding impaired and distracted driving. The partne Silver Spring fentanyl dealer charged with manslaughter for overdose death 07/01/2023 03:01pm • A Silver Spring, Maryland, man, who police said is a fentanyl dealer, was charged with manslaughter for his role in the overdose death of a man last Christmas. Along with the manslaughter charge, Junior Salvador Alvarez Paz, 22, was charged with the distribution of a controlled substance, accordi Fairfax Co. school employee charged with possession of child sexual abuse material 07/01/2023 08:36am • An employee of the public school system in Fairfax County, Virginia, was arrested on Friday and charged with possession of child sexual abuse material. Aaron Matthew Bett's arrest comes months after an anonymous tip was submitted to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children in March 'Keep a watchful eye': DC's efforts to keep visitors safe during Fourth of July 06/30/2023 06:14pm • If you're planning to check out D.C.'s variety of Fourth of July festivities, expect to see more police and public safety officials around town. "Mayor Bowser is activating Public Safety Go Teams on July 3 and 4," said Lindsey Appiah, D.C.'s deputy mayor for public safety and justice. Go Teams Va. man, Montgomery Co. responders recognized for attempted rescue in Cabin John Creek 06/30/2023 05:22pm • Tyrone Robinson of Woodbridge, Virginia, was on his way to work last Friday when he noticed a woman with her leg swung over a bridge overlooking Cabin John Creek. Robinson stopped and ran back to the bridge, but the woman wasn't there. So, he made his way toward a side ramp and saw the woman in t 2 killed in fiery crash in Prince George's Co. 06/30/2023 05:08pm • Two people were killed in a fiery crash Thursday night in Prince George's County, Maryland State Police said. According to a news release, troopers were called to the scene on southbound Interstate 95, just north of Route 212, around 10:40 p.m. Police said a 24-year-old Silver Spring man was b Md. man charged with hate crime after vandalism of Hyattsville street art project 06/30/2023 03:45pm • A Prince George's County man has been arrested and accused of vandalizing a street art installation that he thought represented "gay pride," but was actually intended to improve visibility and pedestrian safety. Hyattsville police said they showed up to the intersection of Jefferson Street and 40 'Possible carjacking' suspect dead after crashing into dump truck in Charles County 06/30/2023 12:15pm • A man who police describe as a suspect in a "possible carjacking" was killed after the vehicle he was driving crashed into a dump truck Thursday in Waldorf, Maryland. Officers from the Charles County Sheriff’s Office responded to the 11900 block of Acton Lane in Waldorf on Thursday around 2 p.m Vehicles searches, field sobriety tests: What marijuana legalization in Md. means for public safety 06/30/2023 04:52am • The legalization of marijuana and marijuana-related products on July 1 will change a lot around the state of Maryland. But even as laws are changing, using marijuana the wrong way will still have consequences. Public safety leaders are warning people not to get the wrong impression about Gas tax hike, police reform, relief for veterans: New laws in Md. take effect July 1 06/29/2023 08:47pm • Hundreds of new laws will go into effect in Maryland on Saturday, including one that’s designed to give retired veterans a break. The Keep Our Heroes Home Act will boost the amount of tax-exempt income for retired veterans in Maryland from $15,000 to $20,000 — that applies to those 55 and old ‘Is this normal?’: Guest’s four wheels stolen from College Park hotel lot 06/29/2023 08:40pm • A mother and her son, who drove from Rincon, Georgia, to College Park, Maryland, for a four-day conference, departed with a sour taste in their mouths and a rental car, after all four wheels of their 2021 Honda Pilot were stolen in the parking lot of the Holiday Inn Express on U.S. Route 1. Lisa Deputy acquitted of all charges for failing to act during deadly Parkland school shooting 06/29/2023 08:16pm • FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida sheriff’s deputy was acquitted Thursday of felony child neglect and other charges for failing to act during the 2018 Parkland school massacre, concluding the first trial in U.S. history of a law enforcement officer for conduct during an on-campus shooting. Prince George's Co. unveils summer crime-fighting plan with no youth curfew — for now 06/29/2023 04:56pm • Officials in Prince George's County, Maryland, unveiled plans Thursday to fight crime this summer, focusing on boosting police presence in specific, high-crime areas and community programming to keep kids off the streets. Strictly enforcing a youth curfew — as the county did late last summer af 'The city is not safe': Eighth-grade student shot, killed in Southeast DC 06/29/2023 12:37pm • The eighth grade student at D.C.'s Digital Pioneers Academy, who was shot and killed Tuesday night in Southeast, has been identified as 15-year-old Jaylin Osbourne. School officials confirmed Osbourne's passing in a letter sent out by Mashea M. Ashton, the school's founder and CEO, who described