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Teen arrested in deadly shooting outside Metro station 01/23/2023 03:35pm • A teenager has been taken into custody following a deadly shooting outside a Metro station in Prince George's County, Maryland. According to the Metro Transit Police Department, 17-year-old D'Hani Rispus was arrested Monday in D.C. after the Sunday shooting that left a 19-year-old man dead. Woman charged after DC police officer stabbed in face while serving bench warrant 01/23/2023 12:35pm • A police officer in D.C. was stabbed in the face Saturday afternoon while attempting to arrest a woman in Northeast D.C. wanted in two previous assaults on officers. Two police officers arrived at an apartment building on Mount Olivet Road just north of Gallaudet University to serve two active wa Victim fatally shot outside of Southern Ave. Metro Station 01/23/2023 03:54am • A victim was found fatally shot outside of the Southern Avenue Metro Station in Hillcrest Heights, Maryland, early Sunday evening. More Local News More Crime News More Prince George���s County News In a tweet, Metro Transit Police said officers responding to reports of a sh DC celebrates the return of Lunar New Year Parade in Chinatown 01/22/2023 08:16pm • Dragon dancers, marching band performers and spectators filled the streets of Chinatown on Sunday afternoon for D.C.’s Annual Lunar New Year Parade. People give gifts to a performer following the Lunar New Year Parade in the Chinatown neighborhood of Washington, D.C., on Jan. 22, 2023. ��� 202 Montgomery Co. school leaders condemn antisemitism after graffiti found in schools 01/22/2023 10:32am • This week, swastikas and other racist graffiti were found drawn on desks at three different schools in Montgomery County, Maryland. In a statement, Montgomery County Public Schools and the school system's superintendent Monifa Mcknight, along with the Board of Education, said they condemns antise Police are investigating a vulture's death at the Dallas Zoo as 'suspicious' 01/22/2023 02:35am • Police are investigating the death of an endangered vulture at the Dallas Zoo as "suspicious," authorities said. Staff found the bird dead in its enclosure Saturday -- about a week after the same zoo made headlines for a clouded leopard that escaped after fencing around its enclosure was cut in w DC gun violence sparks meeting between Mayor, ANC commissioners 01/21/2023 06:49pm • Continuing gun violence in D.C. sparked a two-hour meeting Saturday between Mayor Muriel Bowser, police Chief Robert Contee and advisory neighborhood commissioners from all eight wards of the city. In a spot survey, the commissioners indicated that about one-third personally know of someone who h 2 people killed in Waldorf crash overnight Saturday 01/21/2023 03:21pm • Two people are dead following a crash in Waldorf, Maryland, after a driver ran a red light overnight Saturday, according to authorities. Maryland State Police said that troopers from the La Plata Barrack responded to a "serious motor vehicle collision" around 1 a.m. on U.S. Route 301 in the area Leesburg police investigate racist and antisemitic writing found in high schools 01/21/2023 10:26am • Police are investigating ���racist and antisemitic writing��� found in two Loudoun County, Virginia, high schools this week. Leesburg police said the writing was found in a bathroom at Loudoun County High School on Thursday, and racist writing that was located in a bathroom at Heritage High Schoo Investigative journalist critical of Rwanda's government killed in a car accident 01/21/2023 08:00am • John Williams Ntwali, one of Rwanda's few journalists who published stories critical of the government, has died. Ntwali was the sole fatality in a car accident in Kigali on Wednesday, police spokesman John Bosco Kabera told Reuters. The driver of the other vehicle has been arrested and "the acci Ohio police sergeant placed on leave after video shows him punching woman during arrest 01/21/2023 08:00am • A police sergeant in Ohio was placed on paid leave after a video surfaced of him repeatedly punching a Black woman in the head while arresting her outside of a McDonald's in Butler Township, police said. The video shows two police officers, identified as Sgt. Todd Stanley and officer Tim Zellers, Police identify Prince George's Co. man killed in Northeast DC 01/21/2023 05:49am • D.C. police have identified a Lanham, Maryland, man killed during a shooting in Northeast Thursday. The department said Keshon Cornish, 23, was found with apparent gunshot wounds just after 5:40 p.m. on Jan. 19 in the 4000 block of Minnesota Avenue. More Local News More Crime News Increased safety measures coming to Prince William Co. area amid uptick in crime 01/21/2023 04:08am • Additional police officers, lights and cameras will be added to an area of Prince William County, Virginia, that has experienced a recent uptick in crime, according to officials. There were three homicides ��� one in 2023, and two in 2022 ��� in the area surrounding the Prince William Parkway and Manassas School Board awaits council action on headquarters 01/20/2023 07:57pm • 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. More than five months after approving the purchase of its current headquarters building, the Manassas School Board is still waiting f Teen charged with strong-arm carjacking of elderly woman in Montgomery Co. 01/20/2023 04:30pm • A 15-year-old from Germantown, Maryland, has been arrested and charged in a strong-arm carjacking of an elderly woman Thursday night. Montgomery County Police said the teenager approached the elderly woman shortly before 10:45 p.m. near the intersection of Century Boulevard and Town Commons Drive