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Plenty of smiles as Hogan, Franchot serve their last meeting on Maryland Board of Public Works 01/04/2023 06:11pm • This content was republished with permission from WTOP’s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for Maryland Matters’ free email subscription today. Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) and Comptroller Peter Franchot (D) served their final meeting Wednesday on the Board of Public Works, an affai Police investigating after man found dead in White House Ellipse park 01/04/2023 12:16pm • D.C. police are investigating after a man was found dead in the Ellipse park just south of the White House on Wednesday morning. Police said they believe the man, who was homeless, was beaten with a metal pipe by another homeless man early Wednesday. More Local News More DC News Northern Va. man charged with murder in New Year's Eve shooting 01/04/2023 11:13am • A Northern Virginia man has been charged with murder in a deadly shooting on New Year's Eve. Robert Williams Peters Jr., 23, of Woodbridge has been charged with second-degree murder and a gun charge in the killing of 42-year-old Nahom Beyene in Lorton, Fairfax County police announced in a news re 'It's getting out of hand:' 1 killed and 3 others wounded, including child, in DC shooting 01/04/2023 11:05am • A day after multiple separate shootings across D.C., one man is dead and three others are wounded, including a child, following a shooting on Georgia Avenue in Northwest Tuesday night. Tuesday's shooting happened before 6 p.m. in the 6200 block of Georgia Avenue. D.C. police Chief Robert Cont Police seek suspects in Bethesda burglary 01/04/2023 04:47am • Police in Montgomery County, Maryland, are looking for the suspects in a burglary that happened at a condominium complex back in November. It happened on the 4800 block of Fairmont Avenue in Bethesda on Nov. 24. Police said in a news release that just after 6 p.m., two vehicles were seen in front Jury finds daughter of former Cabinet official guilty in fatal stabbing of Maryland man 01/04/2023 04:29am • A Maryland jury found the daughter of a former director of national intelligence guilty in the fatal stabbing of a Montgomery County man. Sophia Negroponte, 29, of D.C., was found guilty of second-degree murder nearly two years after the death of 24-year-old Yousuf Rasmussen, of Bethesda. Negropo Md. new AG Anthony Brown seeks more authority to investigate civil rights violations, police misconduct 01/03/2023 10:30pm • Former representative and lieutenant governor Anthony Brown was sworn in Tuesday as Maryland's first Black attorney general, saying he plans to seek greater authority to investigate civil rights violations and police misconduct. "Make no mistake — my agenda is ambitious," Brown said during an a Teen killed, several others hurt in separate shootings across DC 01/03/2023 06:41am • Police are investigating five separate shootings across D.C. on Monday -- one of which resulted in the death of a teenage boy. The shootings come two days after D.C. Police Chief Robert Contee said losing more than 200 lives to violent crime in 2022 is “completely unacceptable." The most recent Police ID victims in Prince George's County's 1st death investigation of the year 01/02/2023 06:45pm • Police have identified the two victims in Prince George's County, Maryland's first death investigation of the year. Monique Duncan and Maurice Moore, both 42, were found with fatal injuries around 6 a.m. on  Sunday on the 2500 block of Lazy Acres Road in Clinton. Prince George's County police sa DC police chief marks 203 homicides in 2022, shares policing strategies 01/02/2023 09:58am • For D.C. police, 2022 ended with the loss of more than 200 people to violent crimes, a number that police chief Robert Contee said is "completely unacceptable" even as overall crime declined last year. "Last year, 203 people lost their lives to senseless violence in our city. That’s 203 too man Road closures for DC government's swearing-in ceremony 01/02/2023 08:57am • If you're driving in the District on Monday, Jan. 2, you'll want to know about the street closures and parking restrictions in place that day for the city's swearing-in ceremony for D.C.'s mayor, council and attorney general. The ceremony itself will be held at the Walter E. Washington Convention Firework explosion shakes DC skating rink 01/02/2023 12:20am • Explosives experts with D.C. police said a large firework may have been behind a loud explosion that shook part of Navy Yard Sunday night. The explosion happened in the 200 block of M Street Southeast inside of the rink at Washington Canal Park, a short walk from the U.S. Department of Transporta 1 injured in shooting at Summit Hills apartment complex 01/01/2023 10:59pm • Montgomery County police said one person was injured during a shooting at a Silver Spring, Maryland, apartment complex on New Year's Day. More Crime News More Montgomery County News At around 6:15 p.m., officers responded to reports of a shooting inside the Summit Hills apartm Fairfax Co. police identify person killed in Lorton, Va. 01/01/2023 10:22pm • Fairfax County police have released the name of a person found dead around the doorway of a Lorton, Virginia, home. In a release Sunday, Officers said that 42-year-old Nahom Beyene was found on the threshold of a home on the 9500 block of Unity Lane at around 7:30 p.m. with trauma to the upper bo Fairfax Co. officer broadcasts 'audio porn' on police radio 01/01/2023 09:10pm • Moments after D.C. rang in the New Year, an off-duty officer in Fairfax County inadvertently broadcast "audio porn" over police radio, according to the department's Internal Affairs Bureau. Fairfax County Police told WTOP that the audio transmission, which occurred around 12:30 a.m. on Jan 1., wa