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Fairfax Co. police looking for suspect who stole car with 5-year-old inside 01/16/2023 05:44pm • It must have been a very scary ride for a 5-year-old girl, and it set Fairfax County, Virginia, police on edge for nearly an hour, when a car was stolen Sunday night with the child in the back seat. Fairfax County police said the driver, the girl's stepfather, left the car's engine running while New Arlington Co. sheriff aims to improve inmate safety with biometric monitoring 01/16/2023 01:24pm • In an effort to prevent jail deaths, Arlington County, Virginia's new sheriff is introducing the use of wristbands equipped with biometric sensors for inmates. Sheriff Jose Quiroz, who succeeded Sheriff Beth Arthur when she retired Jan. 6, said the new technology will supplement the current 15-mi 2 women hospitalized after Uber shooting in Northwest DC 01/15/2023 08:27pm • Police are providing more details on a Northwest D.C. shooting that hospitalized two women traveling by Uber early Saturday morning. According to a police report obtained by WTOP, officers responded around 12:45 a.m. Saturday to the 600 block of Morton St. NW, near the intersection with Georgia A 1 dead after 2-vehicle crash in Aspen Hill 01/15/2023 03:39pm • A man is dead following a two-vehicle crash in Montgomery County, Maryland, on Sunday morning. In a news release, the Montgomery County Police Department said officers responded to the area of Muncaster Mill Road and Sycamore Lane in Aspen Hill around 7:20 a.m. Sunday for a crash between two vehi Maryland's new governor Wes Moore on the power of second chances 01/15/2023 11:26am • ▶ Watch Video: Maryland Gov.-elect Wes Moore on the power of second chances "Politics is a very humbling business," said Wes Moore. "When we were first got into this race, I was polling at 1%!" Moore is a bestselling author, former Army captain, and now, as a first-time's-the-charm pol DC community calls for transparency, remembers 13-year-old shot by city employee 01/15/2023 02:12am • With a cold wind blowing, family, friends and neighbors of Karon Blake memorialized the 13-year-old who was shot to death last weekend by a homeowner in D.C.'s Brookland neighborhood. In an emotional display, Blake's little sister dissolved into tears while speaking. His friend Marco stepped to t Chronic wasting disease detected in Fairfax Co. deer 01/14/2023 09:31pm • A progressive and fatal illness known as chronic wasting disease, or CWD, has been detected in a legally harvested adult male deer, according to a news release from Fairfax County Police and the Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources. This is Fairfax County's first CWD-positive detection and h 2 injured in Northwest DC rideshare shooting 01/14/2023 09:04pm • D.C. police said two women were hospitalized after a shooting in Northwest during the pre-dawn hours on Saturday. Officers responded to reports of a shooting near the intersection of Georgia Avenue and Morton Street in Northwest just before 12:45 a.m. Saturday. More DC News More Loc Eight DC area residents charged in drug conspiracy 01/14/2023 07:59pm • Eight D.C. area residents have been charged in a drug conspiracy involving cocaine, heroin, fentanyl and PCP, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia. Seven of those suspects were arrested on Wednesday. All eight men were charged with conspiracy to distribute and Fairfax Co.'s Polar Bear Plunge helps fundraise for Virginia Special Olympics 01/14/2023 05:53pm • More than 100 people braved Saturday's cold, windy weather to join a Polar Bear Plunge in Fairfax County, Virginia, to help raise money for the Virginia Special Olympics. Some participants wore costumes, while others wore swimsuits. However, Fairfax County Police Chief Kevin Davis was in his unif DC council member Pinto requests police bodycam footage from fatal teen shooting 01/14/2023 04:45pm • D.C. Council member Brooke Pinto has requested police body-worn camera footage captured when officers responded to the fatal shooting of 13-year-old Karon Blake on Jan. 7. Pinto told WTOP that she requested the video to make sure D.C. police followed all of the right procedures when they responde Va. Senate Democrats push for new safety bills to prioritize gun violence prevention 01/14/2023 02:52pm • Virginia Senate Democrats are pushing for several gun safety bills in the 2023 General Assembly session after a series of shootings across the state in recent months. "We're here to talk about gun violence epidemic and solutions that the Senate Democrats are putting forward this session, from ba Loudoun Co. man cited for carrying loaded gun at Dulles Airport 01/14/2023 08:45am • A man from Loudoun County, Virginia, was stopped by Transportation Security Administration agents before bringing a loaded handgun onto a flight Thursday at Dulles International Airport. TSA officials notified the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority police who confiscated the gun and cited Md. teacher 'inadvertently' sends explicit photos in email to students 01/14/2023 08:10am • An Upper Marlboro, Maryland, teacher won't face criminal charges after sending a lewd email to students. On Friday, administrators at Dr. Henry A. Wise Jr. High School sent an email to students' families acknowledging that an employee sent sexually explicit images in an email to the entire studen Proposed Fairfax Co. school budget would boost security, bring officers to elementary schools 01/14/2023 01:30am • Fairfax County Public Schools Superintendent Michelle Reid unveiled her proposed $3.5 billion budget for fiscal 2024 on Thursday night, which includes funding for elementary school security and a 3% cost-of-living raise for all employees. Reid's proposed budget allocates $400,000 for "safety and