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Virginia bill aimed at alerting schools of employee arrests awaits Youngkin's signature 02/28/2023 12:40pm • A Virginia bill that would require police to notify schools when educators are arrested is now awaiting Gov. Glenn Youngkin's signature. Its passage follows an incident involving a Fairfax County middle school counselor who remained on the job months after his arrest connected to child sex crimes Frederick Co. deputies to start wearing body cameras Tuesday 02/28/2023 12:39pm • Deputies in Frederick County, Maryland, will be wearing body cameras starting Tuesday as part of their duty uniform. Deputies will be outfitted with Axon body cameras, and the rollout to 180 officers will be phased in over the next 60 days, said Frederick County Sheriff's Office Sgt. Richard Bals Driver dies after multivehicle crash near National Zoo that left 7 injured 02/28/2023 07:39am • The driver of a Tesla involved in a multivehicle crash in Northwest D.C. last week has died after succumbing to his injuries. Early Tuesday, Feb. 21, the driver of a Tesla, occupied by five people, turned into two-way traffic in the 3000 block of Connecticut Avenue near the National Zoo in Woodle Alexandria man accused of carjacking DASH bus 02/28/2023 05:45am • An Alexandria, Virginia, man has been arrested after allegedly carjacking a DASH bus while under the influence last Thursday. On Thursday, Feb. 23, Lorenzo Johnson, 33, carjacked a DASH bus while its driver was on a break at the intersection of Quaker Road and Duke Street, Alexandria police annou How Montgomery Co. schools plan to crack down on students' fentanyl use 02/28/2023 04:23am • The Montgomery County Public School system has released a plan to combat the rise in opioid use and overdoses in the Maryland county's over 200 schools ��� including a crackdown on how long and when students can be in the restroom. In a statement released Friday, the Maryland school system announ Police, family plead for help from public 3 months after Silver Spring man's killing 02/27/2023 01:37pm • Family members of 29-year-old Nathaniel Potts remember the day police in Montgomery County, Maryland, told them of his murder last December. ���This was the nightmare that happened before Christmas,��� said William Potts, the victim���s older brother. Montgomery County police arrived at the to Man indicted on hate crime, robbery charges in Montgomery Co. grocery store assault 02/27/2023 12:35pm • The man charged with knocking a grocery shopper unconscious and stealing his keys in a Gaithersburg, Maryland, Giant store last month has been indicted on hate crime and robbery charges. Eugene Thompson, 19, was indicted by a Montgomery County grand jury on Feb. 23, on a felony count of robbery a 'Reduces anxiety': What to know about security screeners that may be coming to some Virginia schools 02/27/2023 01:18am • After recent conversations with her husband, Alexis Hacketta, a Prince William County, Virginia, parent noticed she disagrees with his perspective on a new security measure under consideration in the state���s second-largest school district. Days after a 6-year-old boy shot his teacher in Newport 2 injured in Rockville, Md. skating rink crash 02/26/2023 10:26pm • (Courtesy, Rockville City Police Department via Twitter.) Police in Montgomery County said the driver and passenger who crashed into an ice skating rink Sunday evening had been hospitalized. No one else was injured. The collision happened just before 5:25 p.m. near Maryland Avenue and Rockvil 4 dead after two separate shootings in DC 02/26/2023 08:25pm • Police say four men died after two separate shootings in the District Sunday afternoon. The Metropolitan Police Department told WTOP that they responded to reports of a shooting around 2 p.m. in the 3300 block of D Street near the D.C. Armory and Congressional Cemetery in Southeast. Mo Victims in parked vehicle robbed at knifepoint in Sterling 02/26/2023 04:27pm • Police in Loudoun County, Virginia, say they are seeking three suspects after victims were robbed at knifepoint while sitting in a vehicle Saturday night. According to a news release from the Loudoun County Sheriff's Office, victims told police they had been sitting in a parked vehicle near the D Md. teen charged with kidnapping released from jail same day before sparking Amber Alert 02/26/2023 04:50am • The teenager charged with kidnapping after a car theft sparked an Amber Alert on Thursday was arrested just hours before the incident occurred, according to Prince George's County District Court documents. Ariel Florentino-Galeas, 18, was arrested and called to court on Feb. 23 for his involvemen 1 killed in Fairfax Co. crash, police say 02/26/2023 12:49am • Police in Fairfax County, Virginia, said an Annandale resident who was expected to survive a late-January single vehicle crash has died from injuries sustained during an alleged drunk driving incident on Jan. 27. Officers said 27-year-old Bayron Hernandez Castellanos was in the passenger seat of 1 killed in shooting near Audi Field, Nationals Park 02/25/2023 10:21pm • D.C. police say an adult male has died after a shooting just blocks from Nationals Park and Audi Field in Southwest. The shooting happened just before 8:45 p.m. in the 1500 block of 1st Street. Police say that an adult male was found shot and was taken to the hospital in critical condition. Man pleads guilty for first-degree murder of former Chevy Chase Village manager 02/25/2023 08:58pm • An ex-employee of Geoffrey Biddle, former manager of the historic Maryland community of Chevy Chase Village who was found dead in his home in June 2021, has pleaded guilty to multiple charges, including first-degree murder. The Montgomery County State's Attorney's Office said that Billy Phillips,