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Where DC, Maryland and Virginia rank for distracted driving 04/04/2023 12:32am • As more drivers took to the road following the outbreak of COVID-19, the nation chalked up a significant increase in the number of crashes to distracted driving in 2021. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reported that there were 3,522 fatal crashes nationwide in which at least on Court documents reveal moments leading up to Va. woman's deadly stabbing at Ivy City Hotel in DC 04/03/2023 05:35pm • Less than an hour after a Virginia woman checked into a D.C. motel Friday evening, a man on a bicycle approached her room, opened the door and then brutally stabbed her 30 times with a kitchen knife, according to court documents. George Sydnor, 43, of no fixed address, has been charged with first Missing 2-year-old boy has been found 04/03/2023 05:00pm • The 2-year-old boy D.C. police said was kidnapped by his father on Monday has been found. The child had been last seen on Chesapeake Street in Southeast around midnight with his father, Alvin Young, who was driving a black Chevy Tahoe with unknown paper tags. D.C. police said the case remains 1 arrested, 1 seriously injured after shooting at Dulles Town Center mall 04/03/2023 10:19am • Deputies in Loudoun County, Virginia, arrested and charged a man involved in a shooting inside the Dulles Town Center shopping mall Sunday, leaving one person in serious condition. Alan W. Colie, 31, of Leesburg, was arrested and charged with aggravated malicious wounding, use of a firearm in the Arlington Co. teens to learn about careers in law enforcement during police academy 04/03/2023 06:53am • Teens in Arlington, Virginia, who are interested in pursuing a career in law enforcement can now apply to attend a free police academy. The program launched last year and according to a news release from the county, it was popular enough to add a second two-week session this summer. Mo 1 killed, suspect arrested in Ivy City Hotel stabbing, DC police say 04/02/2023 02:47am • District police have arrested a 43-year-old man who is accused of stabbing a woman to death in a Northeast D.C. hotel room. D.C. police said officers were called to Ivy City Hotel at the 1600 block of New York Avenue just before 7 p.m. Friday to investigate a reported issue. More Local Heavy winds and scattered storms down trees, cut power across DC area 04/01/2023 11:59pm • Listen to WTOP on the 8s for the full forecast, traffic and weather updates. April has kicked off with some showers and high winds, knocking out power on Saturday throughout the D.C. area. Here's what you need to know. High wind warnings subside, with gale winds possible Sunday Warmer Car collision in Montgomery Co. leaves 1 dead, another injured 04/01/2023 11:30pm • One person has died and another was hospitalized, after a head on car crash left a car dangling over an overpass in the Montgomery County, Maryland, Saturday night. Just after 7:30 p.m., Montgomery County Fire and EMS reported to Norbeck Road on Route 28 between Norwood Road and New Hampshire Ave 4 juveniles arrested, 1 wounded in Gaithersburg stabbing 04/01/2023 10:58pm • Gaithersburg, Maryland, police have taken four juveniles into custody following the stabbing of a teenage girl on Friday night. Around 7:30 p.m. on Friday, Gaithersburg police arrived at the RIO Lakefront shopping center on Grand Corner Avenue in response to reports of a stabbing. There, police d Man arrested at Dulles Airport on felony sex abuse charges 04/01/2023 03:03pm • A man wanted in Montgomery County, Maryland, on multiple felony sex abuse charges was arrested Friday after arriving at Washington Dulles International Airport on a flight from El Salvador. Just after midnight Friday, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers arrested 57-year-old Calixto Lazo C Prince George's Co. man accused of killing woman in 2014 to be extradited from El Salvador 04/01/2023 09:11am • A Prince George's County, Maryland, man hiding out in El Salvador was charged with murder Thursday for shooting and killing a woman in D.C. nearly a decade ago, according to authorities. D.C. police said that Marvin Wilfredo Lopez-Cabrera, 43, of Hyattsville, Maryland, was charged with first degr Fairfax police arrest 3 men after armed carjacking 04/01/2023 01:21am • Fairfax County, Virginia, police were able to track down three men wanted in connection to an armed carjacking in Maryland earlier this week. On Wednesday, a 2014 Audi Q5 was reported stolen in an armed carjacking in Prince George's County, Maryland. More Local News More Virginia Ne Fredericksburg police searching for two suspects in killing of 18-year-old student 04/01/2023 12:10am • Fredericksburg, Virginia, police are searching for the suspects involved in the shooting death of an 18-year-old last Sunday. On Sunday, March 26, Jasiah Smith, a James Monroe High School senior, was shot and killed at a gathering with his friends in a parking lot in the 400 block of Chadwick Cou Prince George's Co. police charge man in deadly shooting of his uncle 03/31/2023 07:49pm • Prince George's County, Maryland, police have charged a man in connection to the fatal shooting of his uncle on Thursday. Daquan White, 26, of Greenbelt, was charged with first- and second-degree murder, among other related charges, in the deadly shooting of 44-year-old Suitland resident Steven M Maryland Senate confirms Roland Butler head of state police 03/31/2023 05:26pm • ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — The Maryland Senate confirmed Lt. Col. Roland Butler on Friday to be the first Black superintendent of the Maryland State Police, a department under a federal discrimination probe. The Senate voted 43-4 to confirm Gov. Wes Moore's appointee, who came under questioning larg