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'Idiot with a gun' wounds 3 in DC, including 2 kids getting off Metrobus 01/11/2023 11:00pm • Three people, including two children, were shot in Northwest D.C., following a fight on a Metrobus that spilled on to the street, police said Wednesday night. It happened around 4 p.m. near 14th Street and Fort Stevens. The fight started inside a full 54 bus heading northbound on 14th Street. Police: Man fatally stabs 68-year-old stepfather in McLean 01/11/2023 06:30pm • A man is dead after being fatally stabbed by his stepson Tuesday night, police in Fairfax County, Virginia, said. Adam Timothy Jackson Jr., 39, has been charged with second-degree murder in the stabbing death of 68-year-old Alan Miller Kaufmann, according to a news release. Jackson is being he 2 juveniles dead, 1 injured in Fairfax Station crash 01/11/2023 05:53pm • A crash claimed the lives of two teenage girls and seriously injured another in Fairfax Station, Virginia, late Tuesday — marking Fairfax County's first non-pedestrian traffic deaths of the new year. Fairfax County officers were called to the 7400 block of Lee Chapel Road just before 9:30 p.m. Latest Taft Bridge suicide shows 'urgency' to add barriers, DC leaders say 01/11/2023 04:36pm • After the second suicide at Northwest D.C.'s William Howard Taft Bridge in less than a year, the District Department of Transportation reacted publicly Wednesday, assuring that suicide prevention barriers would be installed there soon. "Yesterday's loss underscores the urgency in our work to add Mayor: Man who shot and killed 13-year-old is DC government employee 01/11/2023 04:24pm • A man shot and killed 13-year-old Karon Blake in the District’s Brookland neighborhood on Jan. 7, 2023. (Courtesy Sean Long) Members of a Northeast D.C. community are still demanding the name of a man who shot and killed a 13-year-old boy accused of breaking into cars. Mayor Muriel Bowser reve Police: Prince George's Co. middle schoolers receive online threats 01/11/2023 08:35am • Police in Prince George's County, Maryland, say they're investigating threats made over social media extorting middle schoolers who may have been targeted. A Prince George's police spokesperson told WTOP that four students received messages on Instagram and TikTok this week telling them that they Montgomery Co. elementary educator receives 'Oscar award' of teaching 01/11/2023 06:13am • At Fairland Elementary School in Silver Spring, Maryland, a gymnasium full of students erupted in cheers as one of their teachers was named the best of the best in the nation. The students were celebrating third grade teacher Dion Jones being selected as a Milken Educator Award recipient. DC council members move to override mayor's veto of revised criminal code 01/11/2023 06:06am • Mayor Muriel Bowser vetoed the overhaul of D.C.'s criminal code, and now there's a move in the council to override her veto. Bowser vetoed the Revised Criminal Code Act of 2022 earlier in January, after the D.C. Council unanimously passed the bill last November. More Local News More DC community demands answers following fatal shooting of 13-year-old boy 01/11/2023 05:33am • "We want justice. He was 13. He was a baby!" That's what a woman who identified herself as Karon Blake's aunt said Tuesday night at the Turkey Thicket Recreation Center in Northeast D.C., where hundreds of community members gathered to ask questions and demand answers from District leaders an DC police chief calls inaccurate information swirling over shooting of 13-year-old 'reckless' 01/10/2023 05:30pm • A man shoot and killed 13-year-old Karon Blake in the District’s Brookland neighborhood on Saturday morning. (Courtesy NBC Washington) Hours before a scheduled community meeting, the head of D.C. police gave an impassioned statement to address what he called the "spreading of inaccurate inform 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