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Suspended Baltimore police officer sentenced to 42 years in prison for stepson's murder 01/28/2023 03:21pm • A suspended Baltimore, Maryland, police officer has been sentenced to 42 years in prison for the murder of his stepson in 2021, according to a Anne Arundel County news release. Eric Glenn Banks Jr., was sentenced for the July 2021 murder of his 15-year-old stepson Dasan ���DJ��� Jones, along with Reagan National TSA finds 6th gun of 2023 at security checkpoint 01/28/2023 01:05pm • TSA officers at Ronald Reagan National Airport stopped a man from bringing a loaded handgun onto a flight this week. It was the third gun caught at one of the airport security checkpoints within a week, and the sixth such gun discovered this year, according to the Transportation Security Administrat 'Traumatizing, agonizing': Dumfries family struggles to recover from fatal domestic shooting 01/28/2023 12:53pm • A family in Dumfries continues to pick up the pieces following a shooting that killed a 3-year-old girl and wounded four of her teenage relatives earlier this month. "Traumatizing, agonizing, overall just very stressful for us," Trina Rhodes, the victims' grandmother, said when speaking with WTOP North Carolina man pleads guilty for 2021 bomb threat near Library of Congress 01/28/2023 09:39am • On Friday, a North Carolina man pleaded guilty for calling in a bomb threat to the Library of Congress in D.C. in August of 2021. Floyd Ray Roseberry, 52, of Grover, North Carolina, pleaded guilty to one charge of threats to use explosives during a standoff with police that lasted four hours near 11 people displaced after Northeast DC house fire 01/28/2023 09:04am • A fire broke out at a two-story row home in Northeast D.C. after reports of a domestic violence situation on Friday night. D.C. police received a call for domestic violence around 4 p.m. and responded to the 1300 block of Bryant Street NE. Police were barricaded outside of the home when a fire Fairfax Co. police search for person who shot and chained dog 01/27/2023 11:25pm • Fairfax County, Virginia, police are searching for the person responsible for allegedly shooting and wounding a dog early Friday morning. Police said, shortly after 3:30 a.m., officers responded to reports after a community member told police they heard a dog barking followed by a single gunshot. 3 students charged with robbery after alleged assault at Montgomery Co. high school 01/27/2023 09:58pm • Police in Rockville, Maryland, have charged three students, ages 14 and 15, with robbery after an assault inside a bathroom at Richard Montgomery High School earlier this month involving students from another school. Police said they responded to Richard Montgomery on Jan. 13 for a report of an a Prince William Co. teens facing charges in a shooting connected to string of stolen vehicles 01/27/2023 09:44pm • A shooting in Prince William County, Virginia, has led police to a group of teens who are now also believed to be behind a string of stolen vehicles. They have connected the three teens, two of them 14-year-old boys, to at least 20 stolen or attempted stolen vehicles across the county between DC police prepare for release of video of traffic stop that led to Tyre Nichols' death 01/27/2023 05:50pm • D.C. police said they are prepared for possible protests in the District ahead of the release of video footage reportedly showing police officers in Memphis, Tennessee, beating a man during a traffic stop. Video showing the officers beating Tyre Nichols is expected to be released at 7 p.m. Friday Prince William Co. School Board, supervisors talk security, budget surplus at joint meeting 01/27/2023 05:02pm • 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. Prince William���s Board of County Supervisors seemed eager to fund security increases at county high schools and middle schools in a Proving hate: Montgomery County prosecutors face challenge in grocery store attack 01/27/2023 02:41pm • Montgomery County prosecutor John McCarthy says the man charged with knocking a shopper unconscious and stealing his keys in a Gaithersburg, Maryland, Giant grocery store could soon face an additional hate charge. Thirty-year-old Eugene Thompson, who is also known as Michael Stewart, currently fa Review: Despite rushed ending, 'You People' is a biting social rom-com worth watching 01/27/2023 11:16am • In 1967, Sidney Poitier changed the world by meeting his white girlfriend's parents (Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy) in "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?" (1967), a film that may feel regressive in hindsight but holds a revolutionary place in movie history. Since then, there have been count DC museum to commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day 01/27/2023 06:57am • The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Southwest D.C. is marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Friday with special programming. International Holocaust Remembrance Day commemorates the 1945 liberation at the Nazi death camp Auschwitz in occupied Poland. Holocaust survivors will sha 1 arrested after assaulting man wearing Star of David chain in Gaithersburg 01/27/2023 05:33am • A D.C. man has been charged after police said he used antisemitic remarks while assaulting a person Wednesday at a grocery store in Gaithersburg, Maryland. Montgomery County police said 30-year-old Eugene Thompson, who is also known as Michael Stewart, faces first-degree assault and strong-armed Metro isn���t at pre-pandemic service levels yet, but it���s getting closer 01/26/2023 08:21pm • Neither ridership nor service have returned to pre-pandemic levels, but Metrorail is moving closer to that point again. At a Thursday board meeting, General Manager Randy Clarke delivered what he termed ���really good news��� about increasing levels of service. Starting Tuesday, Feb. 7, the Or