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Review underway for DC 911's response to deadly car crash into Anacostia River 04/25/2023 01:35am • The agency overseeing D.C.'s 911 dispatch system said it intends to look back at the response to the deadly car crash into the Anacostia River last week. Three people were found dead after the late-night crash into the water beneath the Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge last Thursday. The exa Maryland Gov. Moore signs bills on his SERVE Act, state budget 04/24/2023 06:18pm • Gov. Wes Moore signed more than 100 bills into law in the latest round of signing ceremonies since the end of the Maryland General Assembly session on April 10. Among the bills getting Moore's signature was the SERVE Act, which creates a year of service open to high school graduates and those wit New Md. law prevents law enforcement from using 'smell test' for marijuana DUI investigation 04/24/2023 05:29pm • A new Maryland law legalizing recreational marijuana also changes how police can investigate whether a driver is under the influence of weed. Starting July 1, law enforcement officers in Maryland can no longer use the "smell test" as the only reason to stop and search a vehicle. Historically, Protesters block DC's 3rd Street Tunnel in call for federal climate emergency 04/24/2023 03:11pm • About a dozen people gathered on a street corner near the northbound exit of D.C.'s Third Street Tunnel on Monday morning. Conversing among themselves amid the bustle of morning rush hour, they suddenly unfurled banners and put on safety vests. Six of them entered the crosswalk minutes later and Montgomery Co. school bus crash sends 4 children, 1 adult to hospital 04/24/2023 11:02am • A school bus crash in Montgomery County, Maryland, on Monday morning sent four children and one adult to the hospital, police said. The single-vehicle crash happened just before 9:30 a.m. in Silver Spring on Old Columbia Pike between Martello Drive and Briggs Chaney Road. #BREAKING Five Childr Metro CEO: DC's fare evasion law needs changing 04/24/2023 09:40am • Metro CEO and General Manager Randy Clarke speaks to DMV Download podcast host Luke Garrett. (WTOP/Luke Garrett) For the last few years, fare evasion in D.C. has been a proverbial thorn in Metro's side. "We need to gain control of the system back and we've got to bring a sense of orderliness, Motorcyclist dies after crash on I-66 in Fairfax Co. 04/24/2023 05:54am • A 29-year-old motorcyclist died late Friday night after a crash on Interstate 66 in Fairfax County, Virginia State Police say. Jeffrey R. Armstrong, of Sterling, was driving a 2006 Suzuki GSX east on I-66 near mile marker 50 at around 11:25 p.m. Friday when police said the cycle rear ended a 2003 Fairfax County wants you to leave baby deer alone 04/23/2023 08:10am • With the fawning season underway, wildlife officials in Fairfax County, Virginia, want to discourage deer rehabilitation. In part because trying to help the deer may put you and the fawn at risk. Starting May 1, attempts to rehabilitate deer fawns or bring baby deer from the Virginia county to ot Police: Man killed in Fairfax Co. crash after evading DUI checkpoint 04/22/2023 09:09pm • Fairfax County police have identified the man killed in a crash in Chantilly, Virginia. The Fairfax County Police Department said that around 1 a.m. on Saturday, 39-year-old Ashton Robinson, of Culpeper, was being pursued by Fauquier County deputies after he drove away from a DUI checkpoint in an Man found shot dead in Southeast DC, police say 04/22/2023 08:20pm • D.C. homicide detectives are investigating the fatal shooting of a man in Southeast on Friday, according to a release. While en route to a call for service just after midnight on Friday, D.C. police officers found 32-year-old Dajuan Blakney of Southeast, D.C. suffering from apparent gunshot wound DC police officer won't face charges in killing of armed woman 04/22/2023 10:58am • Nearly a year after a D.C. police officer shot and killed an armed woman outside a home in Northwest, prosecutors said that the officer won't face charges in her death. Officer Simeon Crawford will avoid civil rights violations and other crimes related to the deadly shooting of 42-year-old Erica 8 people hospitalized after shootings in Southeast DC 04/22/2023 12:02am • At least eight people were shot at two locations in Southeast on Friday night, according to D.C. police. At the first shooting scene, at the 500 block of Lebaum Street SE, D.C. police received reports of gunshots in the area around 10 p.m., Assistant Chief Andre Wright said at a news conference. Virginia State Police identify suspect who tried to flee traffic stop, swimming away 04/21/2023 09:15pm • Virginia State Police identified one of the two suspects who attempted to swim away from police after fleeing a crashed vehicle Wednesday. The two were attempting to avoid a traffic stop in Arlington but were later taken into custody. Bryant R. Mayo, 26, of D.C., was charged with one felony count Life in prison for Maryland man who shot father in front of his family 04/21/2023 08:24pm • A Maryland man was sentenced to life in prison plus an additional 110 years for the 2021 shooting of a Silver Spring man who was shot in his home in front of his family. On the morning of Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2021, Tremayne Dorsey, now 44 years old, shot and killed 39-year-old James Beverly Jr. afte Police: Auto theft suspect ditches car for Metrobus during police chase in Montgomery Co. 04/21/2023 06:32pm • Police in Montgomery County, Maryland, say a man in a stolen car led police on a chase early Friday morning  — and then ditched his ride and hopped on a Metrobus. The chase was captured by multiple news helicopters, including 7News' SkyTrak7. Police said the incident began unfolding sho