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7 Virginia men arrested in 'online predator' sting 01/10/2023 02:07pm • Police have arrested and charged seven Virginia men as part of a sting operation targeting online predators. The Fairfax County-led operation was carried out in December and involved law enforcement officers posing as children online. Police said the seven men initiated explicit conversations and ‘You need to ticket the hell out of this county’: Debate heats up over Montgomery Co. speed cameras 01/10/2023 11:16am • Drivers and pedestrians in Montgomery County, Maryland, aired out their frustrations over traffic enforcement during a public forum Monday night. Many said protecting pedestrians was a top concern while others took aim at the county’s speed camera program. The forum was hosted by the county’s Maryland looking for new ways to keep you safer on the road 01/09/2023 07:50pm • One of Maryland's goals is making it safer to drive in the state, and it's looking for new ideas. "Alcohol impairment, speeding, distracted driving, not buckling up," are just some of the driving safety issues officials seek to tackle, according to Maryland Department of Transportation Administra Maryland man suspected of gunning down girlfriend in 2021 arrested in Florida 01/09/2023 04:21pm • Police in Prince George's County, Maryland, say a man wanted in the shooting death of his girlfriend more than a year ago has been arrested in Florida and charged with murder. Prince George's County police said in a news release Monday that Kevin Lorenzo Jackson, of Suitland, was taken into custo 'Thou shalt not kill' posters coming to DC. Can they help curb gun violence? 01/09/2023 02:42pm • Amid recent gun violence that the police chief has called "completely unacceptable," local community leaders are hoping an age-old commandment, printed on a red and white cardboard sign, will help stem the bloodshed. "The poster is going to simply say "Thou shalt not kill," said Philip Pannell, e New twist in the disappearance of a Mass. woman who worked in DC real estate 01/09/2023 07:28am • Police in Massachusetts have arrested the husband of Ana Walshe; the mom of three worked in D.C. real estate and went missing on New Year's Day. The Norfolk County, Massachusetts District Attorney Michael Morrissey said that 46-year-old Brian Walshe was arrested by Cohassett and Massachusetts Sta Driver injured after tractor-trailer fire on Capital Beltway's Outer Loop 01/09/2023 06:54am • The driver of a tractor-trailer was injured after his vehicle crashed and caught fire near the exit for Georgetown Pike on Interstate 495 in McLean, Virginia, on Sunday afternoon. According to Virginia State Police, around 1 p.m. Sunday, troopers responded to reports of a single-vehicle crash inv 1 fatally shot, another injured near Navy Yard Metro station 01/08/2023 08:30pm • Police have identified the man shot and killed outside the Navy Yard Metro station on Saturday in downtown D.C. just hours before another person was wounded in the same area. D.C. police were called to the area of Half and M Streets Southeast for a report of the shooting around 8 p.m. Police said DC police: Missing 3-year-old twin boys located 01/08/2023 11:00am • Twin toddlers who were missing in Northeast since New Year's Eve have been located, D.C. police said. Tre-Von and Tyshon Mackall were missing from Maryland Avenue near 19th Street in Northeast D.C. around 10 p.m. on Dec. 31. More DC News More Local News Police said the thre Suspect arrested in 2019 DC murder case 01/08/2023 07:44am • D.C. police arrested a Prince George's County, Maryland, man in connection to a 2019 murder of a 16-year-old in Southeast D.C. Bernard Eddy, 22, of Suitland, was charged with first degree murder while armed with an unlicensed firearm in the death of 16-year-old Steffen Brathwaite. More Police: Northeast DC homeowner fatally shoots 13-year-old boy 01/07/2023 09:03pm • A homeowner in Northeast D.C. shot and killed a 13-year-old boy in the early morning hours on Saturday after witnessing him breaking into vehicles, police claim. The homeowner allegedly shot the boy, later identified as Karon Blake of Northeast D.C., during a confrontation with a registered firea Police in DC and Massachusetts search for missing mother of three 01/07/2023 12:42pm • A Massachusetts mother of three young kids who works in real estate in D.C. has been missing since New Year’s Day, setting off a desperate attempt for police to find the woman after she seemingly vanished without a trace. Ana Walshe, 39, was last seen at her home in Cohasset, Massachusetts, a s Crucial Virginia State Police databases restored following earlier outage 01/07/2023 11:51am • The network Virginia State Police uses to keep track of criminal histories, firearm transactions and sex offenders has been mostly restored following Thursday's outage, according to the state agency. Police said Saturday that the Virginia Criminal Information Network has all but two data systems Four teens wounded in Dumfries shooting that killed 3-year-old now breathing on their own 01/07/2023 10:41am • 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. Four Dumfries teenagers wounded in Wednesday's quintuple shooting that left a 3-year-old girl dead are all now breathing on their own, 'Don't feel safe': Brightwood planning community meeting after deadly shooting 01/06/2023 09:17pm • A longtime D.C. resident recently told Kim Patterson, a newly-elected Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner and vice president of the Brightwood Community Association, that she no longer plans to take the bus from Georgia Avenue downtown. The woman's brother had previously mentioned that he wasn't c