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In partnership with Metro, DC police to start patrols at several stations 02/08/2023 06:06pm • A moment of silence for a mechanic who died while trying to protect passengers from a gunman at the Potomac Avenue Metro Station preceded the announcement of a collaboration between D.C. police and Metro to increase law enforcement visibility within the transit system. More Local News Teen charged with bringing handgun to Prince George's Co. school 02/08/2023 05:59pm • A 15-year-old is accused of bringing a gun to school in Prince George's County, Maryland. Prince George's County police said security personnel at Lanham's DuVal High School found out the teen had a weapon just before 11 a.m. Wednesday. More Prince George's County News More Crime Ne Woman in critical condition after Fairfax Co. shooting 02/08/2023 05:35pm • A woman is in critical condition after someone shot her Tuesday morning in Fairfax County, Virginia. The shooting occurred just after 9 a.m. on Blankenship Street in Mount Vernon. Fairfax County Police Lt. James Curry described the incident as "domestic-related." More Local News Woman who disarmed alleged Metro shooter recalls tense moments on train 02/08/2023 04:38pm • The woman who disarmed a man with a gun at the Potomac Avenue station in D.C. last week is the first to say her heroic act was out of character. "I would never think that was something I would ever do. Really, honestly, I'm not that type of person," Shante Trumpet told WTOP. More L 1 killed in Laurel shooting 02/08/2023 12:17pm • A man is dead after a shooting in Laurel, Maryland, Wednesday morning. Anne Arundel County police said it happened around 10 a.m. in the 3500 block of Russett Green East. Investigators said the shooter shot the man multiple times with a handgun and then took off. The man died at the scene. Va. family sues fraternity for $28M over pledge's hazing death 02/08/2023 11:45am • RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The family of a Virginia Commonwealth University fraternity pledge who died from alcohol poisoning in a 2021 hazing is suing the fraternity for $28 million. A police investigation found that Adam Oakes, a 19-year-old who had received a bid to the Delta Chi fraternity, was t Md. bill to change concealed carry law after SCOTUS decision 02/08/2023 12:40am • This content was republished with permission from WTOP’s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for Maryland Matters’ free email subscription today. As a Senate committee listened to hours of testimony on gun control bills Tuesday, the chairman of House Judiciary Committee was filing legi Accused Metro shooter opened fire 3 times in 5 minutes before passenger snatched gun: documents 02/07/2023 06:09pm • Metro employee Robert Cunningham (indicated by the arrow at the left of the picture) attempted to subdue the accused shooter Isaiah Trotman (indicated by the arrow from the right of the picture) with a chokehold. (Court documents) The man charged with fatally shooting a Metro employee and woundi Man dies after train collides with pickup truck in Prince William Co. 02/07/2023 01:19pm • A man was killed Monday evening when a train collided with a pickup truck in Haymarket, Virginia. Emerson Lisandro Martinez Mejia, 26, a Manassas resident, was a passenger in the pickup, Prince William County police said. More Prince William County News More Virginia News More Lo Water’s End Brewery opening new location in Leesburg 02/07/2023 10:26am • Craft brewer Water’s End Brewery, founded by a former Fairfax County police officer in 2016, is opening a fourth location, this one at the Village at Leesburg development in Virginia. Water’s End will be part of a makeover of the existing Chefscape food hall, which is being repositioned as Th 1 killed in hit-and-run crash on BW Parkway 02/07/2023 08:20am • A man is dead after a hit-and-run on the Baltimore-Washington Parkway Monday night, and police are searching for a suspect. It happened on the BW Parkway heading southbound in the area of Powder Mill Road at around 10:15 p.m., according to United States Park Police officers. More Local Virginia explores ways to prevent human trafficking 02/07/2023 12:24am • Experts on human trafficking say the problem is all around us, and a yearlong study in Virginia has sparked several recommendations to combat sex and labor human trafficking. The Virginia Commission on Human Trafficking Prevention and Survivor Support, formed last year by Gov. Glenn Youngkin, sub Serial rapist could face life in prison for DC attack 02/06/2023 09:08pm • A serial rapist could get life in prison for his attack on a woman from Adams Morgan in D.C. A jury convicted 48-year-old Ronald Berton Jr. in the June 12, 2010, rape of a woman who was asleep in her ground level apartment, according to a Justice Department statement. More DC News M Arlington's Wakefield High reopens with extra security presence 02/06/2023 07:18pm • Wakefield High School in Arlington, Virginia, reopened Monday with extra security, because of what the principal called "concerning social media posts circulating." In a message to the school community Sunday, Principal Chris Willmore said Arlington police will provide increased patrols around th Victims sought in Maryland sex trafficking ring run by New York woman 02/06/2023 06:17pm • Police are looking for other potential victims after the arrest of a New York woman accused of sex trafficking in Maryland. Montgomery County police arrested 63-year-old Yang Jiang, of New York, on a charge of prostitution last January. On Saturday, she was also charged with two counts of sex tra