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Police: 2 dead after shooting in Southeast DC 03/22/2023 10:35pm • Two men are dead after being shot in Southeast D.C. Wednesday night. D.C. police said it happened in the 4300 block of 3rd Street Southeast just before 7:30 p.m. More DC News More Crime News Both men are in their early 20s, police said. Police said they do not have a lead o DC mayor's 'comeback' budget adds traffic cameras, cuts bus routes 03/22/2023 05:33pm • D.C.'s mayor has unveiled her proposed budget for the next fiscal year. Billed as a "comeback plan," in an appearance with the D.C. Council on Wednesday morning, the budget focuses on revitalizing downtown, adding hundreds more traffic cameras throughout the District and cutting the number of DC Mother who faces charges of kidnapping in Stafford Co. found with wigs, disguises 03/22/2023 05:15pm • An Amber Alert for two 6-year-old children in Stafford County, Virginia, has been canceled and the girls have been returned to their father. The Stafford County Sheriff's Office said in a tweet Wednesday morning that 6-year-old girls have been safely located. Their biological mother, Rosa Greg Audit finds Fairfax County police shootings on the rise, but use-of-force complaints down 03/22/2023 04:23pm • This article was written by WTOP’s news partner InsideNoVa.com and republished with permission. Sign up for InsideNoVa.com’s free email subscription today. The Fairfax County Office of the Independent Police Auditor recently published its annual report, which showed an increase in police shoo Prince George’s Co. will offer rebates for surveillance cameras 03/22/2023 01:21pm • A bill that would offer rebates to Prince George’s County, Maryland, residents who buy surveillance cameras has passed unanimously, after the council heard from the parents of a teen shot last year whose killer is still on the loose. The bill was named after 13-year-old Jayz Agnew, who was shot Tenn. official to fill Virginia chief schools officer post 03/22/2023 12:39pm • Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin has hired a Tennessee education official to serve as Virginia's chief schools officer after the previous employee in the role resigned for reasons the administration has declined to explain. Tennessee Chief Academic Officer Lisa Coons will take over the role of Virg 2 men charged with 1st-degree murder in Silver Spring shooting 03/22/2023 10:58am • Two Maryland men have been arrested in connection with a shooting in Silver Spring, Maryland, earlier this month which left a 20-year-old dead. Brian Gaitan-Sanchez, 20, of Bladensburg, and Javier Reyes, 21, of Silver Spring, were charged with first-degree murder in the shooting of 20-year-old Wa Metro celebrates completion of its Md. headquarters in Prince George's Co. 03/22/2023 04:18am • A few years ago, the New Carrollton Metro Station was surrounded by nothing but parking lots, adjacent to more parking lots. But on Tuesday afternoon, politicians and Metro employees gathered next to Metro's newly opened Maryland headquarters, as well as a massive apartment complex that's a few m Montgomery Co. high school student suffers possible overdose in McDonald's near school 03/21/2023 05:48pm • A Montgomery County, Maryland, high school student is in the hospital, after suffering a suspected overdose inside a Gaithersburg McDonald's. Montgomery County police got a call about a reported overdose just before noon Tuesday. The restaurant is across the street from Quince Orchard High School Guardrails installed on US-15 in Frederick after deadly tanker fire 03/21/2023 05:18pm • Maryland transportation officials say a new addition to a stretch of U.S. Route 15 in Frederick will help shield residents from crashes, such as this month's tanker disaster. Work crews worked late Monday to deploy guardrails along northbound Route 15 near Rosemont Avenue, more than two weeks aft Family of teen killed by US Park Police demands accountability 03/21/2023 04:27pm • A U.S. Park Police officer shot and killed a suspect while he was fleeing a stop for driving a stolen car. (WTOP/Luke Lukert) The family of a 17-year-old from D.C. who was shot and killed by a U.S. Park Police officer last weekend is demanding a full investigation into the officers involved and Maryland lawmakers reach crossover deadline in session 03/21/2023 06:53am • Maryland Gov. Wes Moore, left, gives an update on progress with his legislative agenda during a news conference on Monday, March 20, 2023, in Annapolis, Md. (AP Photo/Brian Witte) ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — The Maryland General Assembly headed into the last three weeks of its annual legislative ses Md. man arrested on attempted kidnapping at a school bus stop 03/21/2023 04:52am • Police arrested a Maryland man they said tried to kidnap a child at a school bus stop in Montgomery County. It happened Monday around 7:20 a.m. on the 17600 block of Towne Crest Drive. Police said that a man, identified as Jamaal Germany, 30, of Gaithersburg, grabbed the child and tried to pull t School safety update shows jump in arrests in Montgomery County 03/21/2023 12:11am • Although the number of times Montgomery County Public School administrators have called police to respond to incidents is down this year — 1,329 calls so far, compared to 2,814 for all of last school year — the number of arrests has increased. Calls for service included requests for help from Dachshund taken from Prince George's County porch reunited with family 03/20/2023 06:30pm • A dog taken from its owner's porch in Prince George's County, Maryland, is now back with its family. Prince George's County police released video of a woman who appeared to have taken Canela, a 5-year-old female dachshund, from a house on the 6200 block of Foster Street in District Heights on the