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Capitol Police seeking $840 million budget ahead of 2024 03/27/2023 10:11am • The U.S. Capitol Police is poised to ask Congress for a 14% budget increase in 2024, which would bring the agency's budget to more than $840 million, CBS News has learned. The request will be made this week in a hearing of a House subcommittee that oversees funding for the police department charged DC police release photos of suspects in 3 armed robberies 03/27/2023 07:19am • D.C. police have released photos of two armed robbery suspects who they say approached and demanded property from three people in three hours on Saturday. D.C. police have released photos of the suspects and the car involved in three armed robberies in the District on Saturday. (Courtesy D.C. po Cherry blossom traffic frustrations continue: How should you get to the blooms? 03/26/2023 02:11pm • A major influx of visitors going to see the cherry blossoms around D.C.'s Tidal Basin and people parking on the street led to traffic headaches this weekend. Listen to WTOP's Luke Lukert report on the traffic jams surrounding the cherry blossom's peak bloom. "When there's a huge influx in 18-year-old arrested, charged with murder after running from scene of Fairfax shooting 03/26/2023 09:18am • An 18-year-old man was arrested on Saturday hours after police say he shot and killed someone in a Fairfax, Virginia, apartment and ran from the scene. Fairfax County police said Darren Cruz Colindres, of Vienna, was at a second-level apartment in the 10400 block of Viera Lane with "known associa Pedestrian struck and killed on the Capital Beltway, temporarily stops all traffic 03/26/2023 06:26am • A pedestrian is dead after being struck on the Outer Loop of the Capital Beltway during the predawn hours on Sunday, according to Maryland State Police. It happened near New Hampshire Avenue in Prince George's County around 2:45 a.m. and the crash led police to close both directions of Interstate Traffic not so 'cheery' as cherry blossom visitors get stuck for hours 03/25/2023 11:55pm • As thousands of visitors descended on the District this weekend to see the world-famous cherry blossoms in peak bloom, some drivers went from admiring the pink and white blossoms to seeing red. Drivers trying to make their way around Southwest D.C., the Tidal Basin, the Wharf, Hains Point and Gov. Moore works to shore up state police nominee before Monday's hearing 03/25/2023 10:41pm • Roland Butler, Jr. speaks during a press conference with Maryland Gov. Wes Moore in February. (William J. Ford) This content was republished with permission from WTOP’s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for Maryland Matters’ free email subscription today. Gov. Wes Moore (D) is wo Fairfax Co. police find child in car backseat after chasing down grocery store robbers 03/25/2023 08:55pm • Fairfax County police arrested a man and a woman from D.C. for robbing a Safeway grocery store in Great Falls, Virginia, on Thursday afternoon. They were also charged with child endangerment. Police arrived at the Safeway on Georgetown Pike after reports that a man and woman had stolen items from Early morning tractor-trailer crash creates backup in Fairfax Co. 03/25/2023 02:44am • A tractor-trailer crash on the Beltway's outer loop ramp to southbound Interstate 95, exit 169A, in Springfield, Virginia, had all traffic stopped in the predawn hours of Saturday. The WTOP Traffic Center reported the crash at around 1 a.m. and the ramp reopened just before 4 a.m. There are no re Arlington Co. to condemn former Key Bridge Marriott hotel 03/24/2023 10:20pm • It's time to say farewell to the unsightly, brutalist hotel along the Key Bridge in Rosslyn. Arlington County officials announced Friday they would be condemning the former Key Bridge Marriott hotel, saying it is "unsafe and unfit for habitation." The county said it had a "responsibility" to ensu Virginia police release photo of suspect car in Capital Beltway shooting 03/24/2023 05:22pm • Virginia State Police have released a photo of the car whose front seat passenger is suspected of firing shots on the Capital Beltway in Fairfax County. The vehicle is described as a matte-finish charcoal gray Mercedes AMG E-Class sedan with a sunroof and tinted windows. More Virginia Father and son, 2 brothers among 6 killed in Baltimore beltway crash 03/24/2023 04:50pm • BALTIMORE (AP) — New details are emerging about a midweek crash along the Baltimore beltway that left six construction workers dead after a driver lost control of her car and it careened into a work zone, according to Maryland State Police. Lisa Adrienna Lea, 54, was alone in an Acura sedan Metro Transit Police's body camera program to start in April 03/24/2023 10:49am • Metro Transit Police will start wearing body-worn cameras in a new program being rolled out starting in April. The plan is to begin the program in stages, with all Metro transit officers, sergeants and lieutenants to start wearing the cameras in the "coming months." According to Metro, there will 8 injured after crash involving Fairfax Co. fire truck 03/24/2023 06:29am • Eight people were taken to the hospital after a crash Thursday involving a Fairfax County, Virginia, fire truck and three other cars. The crash happened around 5:19 p.m. on Richmond Highway at Memorial Street in Groveton, Fairfax County Police said in a tweet. More Fairfax County News Capital One Arena beefs up security as DC struggles with police staffing 03/23/2023 09:21pm • With fan safety in mind, Monumental Sports owner Ted Leonsis is hiring more D.C. police officers to bulk up security around Capital One Arena on game days, after Mayor Muriel Bowser said the department doesn't have enough officers to increase patrols downtown. Monumental Sports confirmed in a sta