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National Prescription Drug Take Back Day: DC-area residents can offload unneeded meds this Saturday 04/21/2023 11:40am • Combing through your medicine cabinet might be a part of your spring cleaning, and there's an opportunity to offload those unneeded medications Saturday at dozens of drop-off locations around the D.C. area. In partnership with the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), D.C.-area agencies are enco Fredericksburg police arrest 2 teens in killing of student 04/21/2023 09:56am • Fredericksburg, Virginia, police have arrested two people in the shooting death of an 18-year-old student. U.S. Marshals found 16-year-old Lorenzo A. Brooks and 19-year-old Aaron Randolph Carter in Temple Hills, Maryland, on Thursday and arrested them without incident, according to a news release Montgomery Co. patio contractor sues Baltimore Police Department over extortion 04/21/2023 04:25am • A Montgomery County, Maryland, man is suing the Baltimore Police Department and the City of Baltimore, alleging that they didn't do enough to stop its officers from violating his civil rights after one police sergeant was fired and three detectives suspended over his extortion. Luis Alfonso Torre Details emerge on why Loudoun Co. schools spokesman was charged with lying under oath 04/20/2023 10:39pm • Before a Loudoun County Public Schools spokesman is set to go to trial in June, WTOP has learned what he said to a grand jury that led to perjury charges. Wayde Byard was indicted on charges of lying under oath on Aug. 2, 2021, when testifying to a grand jury. It's one of the many facets of the s DC and Maryland officials urge massive recall of theft-prone Hyundai, Kia vehicles 04/20/2023 05:05pm • Attorneys general in Maryland, D.C. and more than a dozen other states are calling on federal authorities to order a massive recall of Hyundai and Kia vehicles, saying their easily-bypassed ignition switches and vulnerability to being stolen has created a "safety crisis on the roads." The request Quick-thinking Prince William Co. first responders come to aid of official who collapsed at public meeting 04/19/2023 08:15pm • When former Prince William County Supervisor John Stirrup collapsed at the podium during a public board meeting Tuesday night, some quick-acting sheriff's deputies and first responders — who happened to be in the audience for a discussion about employee pay raises — leapt into action. "Within Prince George’s Co. approves new rental assistance program. But how will it be paid for? 04/19/2023 12:15pm • The Prince George’s County Council unanimously approved the creation of a new rental assistance program on Tuesday. No one from the public spoke out against the program, and no one from the council did either. Instead, the looming fight appears to be over how to fund it. Under the legislatio 2 in custody after driving, running and swimming away from Va. police to avoid traffic stop 04/19/2023 10:10am • After crashing a vehicle when trying to avoid a traffic stop, two people swam away from police in Arlington and were later taken into custody Wednesday, Virginia State Police say. Both were taken to the hospital for treatment after being exposed to the cold water temperatures in Roaches Run, poli Montgomery Democrats pick community leader Greg Wims to fill latest vacancy in House of Delegates 04/19/2023 06:02am • W. Gregory Wims was nominated by the Montgomery County Democratic Central Committee on Tuesday to fill a District 39 vacancy in the House of Delegates. (Courtesy Maryland Matters) This content was republished with permission from WTOP’s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for Maryland Part of DC's Fort Totten Park closes for investigation after discovery of metal canisters 04/19/2023 04:39am • A section of Fort Totten Park in D.C. has been closed after the discovery of two metal canisters on Tuesday. Fort Totten Park is closed just east of Fort Totten Drive, south of Gallatin Street, and north of Brookland Avenue Northeast/Farragut Street "out of an abundance of caution," the National Teenager hospitalized after shooting in Culmore area of Fairfax Co. 04/18/2023 09:59pm • Police in Fairfax County, Virginia, are still looking for the suspects in a shooting that wounded a 14-year-old boy. It happened near Bellview and Glen Carlyn drives in the Culmore area of Falls Church on Monday. Police found the teenager wounded with life-threatening injuries. He remains in t Alexandria police begins rolling out body cameras 04/18/2023 08:50pm • Alexandria's Police Department in Virginia has become the latest police force to deploy body cameras to its officers. The program comes after the department secured support and the money for the $2.2 million rollout. "We're pleased to announce it's time to begin," said Lt. Jason North, chief Fundraising begins to 'reimagine' a defaced U Street mural 04/18/2023 07:04pm • After a graffiti artist painted over a mural representing the life of artist and civil rights activist Paul Robeson, there's an effort to reimagine the iconic U Street mural. The artist is working to raise funds to paint a new one. Standing in front of the massive mural he painted back in 2015, C Loudoun Co. schools reviewing how SROs handle sexual assaults 04/18/2023 05:32pm • A joint committee made up of Loudoun County School Board members and County Board of Supervisors is offering recommendations for the Virginia school system’s school resource officers on how they handle sexual assault cases. It comes in the wake of the recent announcement of a federal Title IX i 10-year-old cat stolen in armed carjacking on Capitol Hill 04/18/2023 04:41pm • The cat, described as a domestic medium-haired cat, answers to "Milly" or "Mini" and was in a red and cream-colored crate when its owner was carjacked. (Courtesy D.C. police A 10-year-old cat was stolen during an armed carjacking in D.C.'s Capitol Hill neighborhood on Monday evening. The blac