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Security cameras proposed at post offices nationwide after DC woman's shooting 05/09/2023 05:42pm • Security cameras are just about everywhere in D.C., except post offices. After a woman was shot Monday at a post office in Brentwood, a D.C. lawmaker wants to make them safer. D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton is introducing legislation that will fund installing security cameras at every post offic DC firefighter shot and killed after reportedly assaulting girlfriend in Charles Co. 05/09/2023 08:22am • A D.C. firefighter was shot and killed by a man out walking his dog early Monday after reportedly assaulting his girlfriend in Charles County, Maryland. The shooting happened at around 3:30 a.m. Monday after deputies say Carl Braxton, 30,  reportedly assaulted his girlfriend inside their town ho Grand jury indicts 2 Va. deputies caught slamming 77-year-old into truck 05/08/2023 09:28pm • Police body camera video of Virginia deputies showing them slamming a man into the back of a truck and taking him to the pavement to arrest him made national news last year. Now, a grand jury has indicted the men. A grand jury indicted Warren County Sheriff's Deputy Tyler Poe for unlawful woun 2 teens charged in St. Charles Towne Center mall shooting 05/08/2023 06:44pm • Two teens have been arrested and charged in connection with a shooting that happened at a Charles County, Maryland, mall on Sunday afternoon. The Charles County Sheriff’s Office said it all began with an argument between the teens and two adults at the St. Charles Towne Center in Waldorf. Du 3 hurt after box truck overturns in messy Beltway crash 05/08/2023 05:29pm • Three people were hurt after a box truck carrying ceiling tiles crashed on the Capital Beltway on Monday afternoon, prompting lengthy delays for drivers. The crash happened about 12:15 p.m. on Interstate 495 near River Road, when the box truck collided, overturned and then rolled, according to Pe ‘Not my child:’ What a mother says you need to know about teens and fentanyl 05/08/2023 03:00pm • This article is part of the WTOP series, "Facing Down Fentanyl: Teens Confront Drug Danger." Elena Suarez (left) and her daughter Colette Russ, who died of a fentanyl overdose in 2020. (Courtesy Elena Suarez) To say Colette Russ was a busy high-schooler would be an understatement. If you didn WATCH: Sweets lure Rockville neighborhood's black bear into trap 05/08/2023 02:13pm • A black bear seen repeatedly hanging out in Rockville, Maryland, neighborhoods (at times destroying beehives) was lured into a trap with sweets and relocated on Monday morning. Not honey, but instead doughnuts, molasses and vanilla were used to entice the animal into a bear trap, according to 1 arrested after woman shot at DC post office 05/08/2023 12:46pm • A woman is in the hospital after allegedly being shot by a postal worker in Northeast D.C. Monday morning. D.C. police told WTOP the shooting happened before 9:30 a.m. in the parking lot of the U.S. Post Office on Brentwood Road. One woman was shot and taken to the hospital. She is "conscious Fairfax Co. police: Woman struck, killed by emergency vehicle called to help her 05/08/2023 08:31am • A woman is dead after being struck by a Fairfax County Fire and Rescue vehicle in Reston, Virginia, Monday morning. Those first responders were called to Laurel Glade Drive and Glade Drive just after 2:15 a.m. to help the woman, a spokesperson for Fairfax County police told WTOP. A caller repo 1 killed, 1 injured in shooting at Bailey's Crossroads; Fairfax Co. police release suspect photos 05/08/2023 07:11am • Police in Fairfax County, Virginia, say they are trying to identify a suspect involved in a shooting near a Bailey's Crossroads restaurant that left one man dead and another hospitalized early Sunday morning. In a news release, Fairfax County police said around 2:19 a.m. Sunday, officers responde Maryland man arrested in shooting of 2 sheriff's deputies, state trooper 05/07/2023 05:28pm • An Elkton, Maryland, man is in custody after allegedly shooting two Cecil County sheriff's deputies and a Maryland State Trooper while fleeing a burglary in Port Deposit, Maryland. In a news release, Maryland State Police say Daniel Padraig Colin Donnelly, 23, of Elkton, has been arrested and cha ‘A vehicle to share hope’: Organizations come together to donate new shoes to DC-area children 05/07/2023 10:12am • Children and their families gathered at the Metropolitan Police Department YFSD Gym in D.C. on Saturday. (WTOP/Cheyenne Corin) Hundreds of D.C.-based children received a new pair of sneakers Saturday, which organizers hope will lessen the burden on their families and provide hope for their f Maryland state trooper arrested, charged with assault, sex offense 05/07/2023 05:52am • A Maryland State Police trooper was arrested by Anne Arundel County police Saturday morning for multiple charges, including sexual offense and assault. Trooper 1st Class Ryan Bandy was charged with false imprisonment, second-degree assault and fourth-degree sex offense. In a statement, Marylan Killed by a wax bullet: Family honors sacrifice of DC police officer shot in 1904 05/05/2023 09:43pm • DC Police Officer John J. Smith was shot and later died in the line of duty in 1904 on what is now the Key Bridge. (Courtesy Rinehart family) A new D.C. memorial wall dedicated to police officers killed in the line of duty is now complete, unveiled in a ceremony full of public officials and law Man arrested for deadly shooting and fire in Prince George's Co. 05/05/2023 08:39pm • The Prince George's County Police Department charged a man Friday in connection with a deadly shooting and apartment fire in Hyattsville, Maryland. Police arrived at the 6100 block of 42nd Avenue at around 2:05 p.m. Wednesday to assist county firefighters that were battling a kitchen fire inside