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Report of suspect carrying what looked like 'long gun' prompts lockdown at Bowie High 06/07/2023 09:22pm • One person is in custody after a report of a suspect with a firearm led to a lockdown at a Prince George's County, Maryland, high school. It happened near Bowie High School Wednesday around 1 p.m. A person was seen with what appeared to be a long barrel rifle, police said. The suspect was reporte Funeral company owner fatally shot pallbearer before burial service for 10-year-old shooting victim, police say 06/07/2023 06:59pm • The owner of a funeral company has been charged with murder after police say he shot and killed a pallbearer before a burial service for a 10-year-old girl at a Prince George's County, Maryland, cemetery. Wilson Chavis, 48, of Hughesville, has been charged with first- and second-degree murder in Drive for Uber? DC wants to give you a free dash cam 06/07/2023 05:08pm • In an effort to put more cameras on the streets to help police investigate crimes, D.C. leaders will be giving away free dash cameras to people who spend a lot of time behind the wheel. "It is focused on public safety," D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser said Wednesday. The cameras will be handed out la Police release more details about fatal I-395 crash caught on video 06/07/2023 02:59pm • D.C. police have identified the driver who was killed in a dramatic crash on Interstate 395 this weekend that was caught on video. Police said Van Thomas Lee, 28, was driving a Hyundai Elantra around 7:45 p.m. Sunday when it careened off an overpass and landed in oncoming traffic below. Dashca Former Loudoun Co. priest sentenced to 8 years for sexual abuse of minor 06/07/2023 02:26pm • A former Loudoun County priest has been sentenced to eight years in prison for sexually abusing a minor nearly 40 years ago. On Tuesday, Virginia's Attorney General Jason Miyares announced Scott Asalone, a former priest at St. Francis de Sales Catholic Church in Purcellville, has been sentenced t Fentanyl crisis the focus of Prince William roundtable with Rep. Spanberger, local leaders 06/07/2023 11:12am • 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. Hoping to combat the deadly, nationwide fentanyl crisis, a bipartisan group of lawmakers have introduced legislation aimed at providing s Court sees body camera footage from officer who pulled over drunken driver charged in Rock Creek Parkway crash 06/06/2023 10:59pm • Questions remain over how a driver with three drunken driving convictions in D.C. was able to hang onto her license before she got behind the wheel in March and crashed into a ride-share vehicle, killing three people. Nakita Walker, 43, was in D.C. Superior Court on Tuesday for a preliminary hear New Loudoun Co. schools superintendent says he's ready for the challenge 06/06/2023 09:00pm • Amid an investigation into the handling of sexual assaults in schools, Loudoun County's new head of its public school system said that he is prepared, equipped and ready for the challenge to lead. ���Loudoun County is an incredible school district,��� said Aaron Spence, who spoke to reporters on How Alexandria police plan to keep kids safe as school year ends 06/06/2023 05:34pm • The Alexandria Police Department in Virginia is launching an end-of-the-school-year safety strategy following the fatal stabbing of an 18-year-old student last year. Chief Don Hayes said the plan will be deployed in the entire city, but focuses around the Bradlee Shopping Center, where the stabbi Police: 1 killed in shooting during service at Prince George's Co. cemetery 06/06/2023 04:10pm • Police in Prince George's County, Maryland, said a man is dead and a woman is in the hospital after a shooting during a funeral service at Washington National Cemetery on Suitland Road. Police said the shooting happened about 1:20 p.m. Tuesday. At the time of the shooting, a burial service was ta Prince William Co. police search for Woodbridge man who shot, killed 1 06/06/2023 08:13am • Prince William County police are looking for a man suspected of shooting and killing a 25-year-old man last month in Woodbridge, Virginia. Police are asking for the public's help in finding��34-year-old Jeffrey Donelle Hampton, who police have identified in the killing of Michael Eugene Hawkins, Woman was killed, dismembered by daughter and granddaughter, prosecutors say 06/05/2023 05:07pm • Words such as "mind boggling" were used in court to describe a murder that the chief of the unit that prosecutes many of the worst crimes in Prince George's County, Maryland, described as among the worst murders in memory. At the moment, 71-year-old Margaret Craig, of the Landover area, is still New survey hopes to improve policing in Fairfax County 06/05/2023 04:33pm • Fairfax County residents will see the survey pop up where ads tend to display on their internet browsers. (Courtesy Fairfax County Police) The Fairfax County Police Department is hoping residents will weigh in on public safety via a new online survey, popping up on browsers in the county over th Montgomery Co. police searching for suspect after teenager shot at Silver Spring block party 06/05/2023 03:30pm • Police in Montgomery County, Maryland, are looking for suspects after a 16-year-old girl was shot at a block party in Silver Spring on Friday night. According to police, a group of people were at a block party on the 11400 block of Stewart Lane, near White Oak Community Center, when a dark sedan What happens at the Capitol when an aircraft flies into DC's no-fly zone? 06/05/2023 02:23pm • The U.S. Capitol complex was put on elevated alert when a plane strayed into D.C. airspace and jets were scrambled on Sunday, the latest incident in recent years that put security protocols to the test. Soon after the Cessna made its way through the D.C. region, U.S. Capitol Police announced that