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Capitol police officer on Jan. 6: 'One of the worst days of my life' 01/06/2023 10:48am • .flex-video{padding-bottom:10rem;} U.S. Capitol Police officer Harry Dunn says that while it's been two years since rioters attacked the building on Jan. 6, his memories of that day remain fresh and painful. Dunn was outside on the west side of the Capitol, trying to hold the line with oth Man serving 2 life sentences in Virginia now faces Prince George's Co. charge in 2002 slaying 01/06/2023 05:22am • A Virginia man, already sentenced twice to life sentences without the possibility of parole, has been moved to a Maryland jail cell as he prepares to admit his guilt in a two-decade-old Prince George’s County murder. Shortly before Christmas, 53-year-old Charles Helem was transferred out of Vir Driver in crash that injured students on Stafford Co. school bus charged with reckless driving 01/06/2023 04:17am • A Virginia man has been arrested on a charge of reckless driving following a crash that flipped a Stafford County school bus and sent students to the hospital. Michael Kingham, 30, of Stafford, faces charges of reckless driving for a crash that happened on Dec. 16 on the 1300 block of Brooke Roa Police charge 1 in death of man found in White House Ellipse park 01/06/2023 04:01am • Police in D.C. have identified the man who was found dead at a park near the White House, and they have arrested a person who they said was seen on video surveillance striking the victim with a metal pole. Michael Jones' body was discovered Wednesday morning by a jogger, who flagged down a U.S. S Information sought in fatal Hyattsville shooting 01/05/2023 11:43pm • Police in Prince George's County, Maryland, are offering a reward for information on a fatal shooting in Hyattsville. It happened on Wednesday on the 2600 block of Kirkwood Place near Kirkwood Neighborhood Park just before 6 p.m. Hyattsville City police responded to check on the welfare of a man Man charged with killing 3-year-old girl, shooting 4 teens in Va. was wanted on DC warrant 01/05/2023 06:28pm • A man who is facing charges in the death of a 3-year-old girl and shooting four teenagers, including his girlfriend, in their Prince William County, Virginia, home was wanted on an outstanding warrant in D.C. Kenyatta Oglesby, 20, was arrested Wednesday shortly after a 911 caller described him an Fairfax County day care worker accused of taping toddler to chair 01/05/2023 05:23pm • Police in Fairfax County, Virginia, have arrested a day care worker accused of taping a toddler to a chair. Wesal Houd Abu Issa, 42, of Herndon, was arrested Wednesday on assault charges. Police said that on Dec. 8, she was seen by another employee of Little Oaks Montessori Academy on Dulles Tech 2 teens charged with carjacking ride-hail driver in Prince George's Co. 01/05/2023 04:38pm • Police in Prince George's County, Maryland, have arrested two teen boys in connection with an armed carjacking of a ride-hailing driver Monday night. The two Landover residents, ages 16 and 17, were charged as adults with armed carjacking and firearm-related offenses. More Prince Georg Potomac man sentenced to 9 years in prison for Bethesda armed carjacking 01/05/2023 08:35am • A 19-year-old man has been sentenced for his role in a June 2022 armed carjacking at a parking garage in Bethesda, Maryland. Herbert Randall, of Potomac, was sentenced to nine years in prison and five years of supervised probation upon release for charges of Armed Carjacking and Use of a Firearm Metro Transit police to be armed with naloxone to combat opioid overdoses 01/05/2023 06:42am • Medication that can reverse the effects of an opioid overdose will be issued to officers with the Metro Transit Police Department. The move comes following a rise in calls to Metro Transit police reporting suspected overdoses, from 27 incidents in 2021 to 43 incidents in 2022, according to the Wa DC man accused in Prince William Co. shooting that killed 3-year-old, injured 4 teens 01/05/2023 05:00am • A child is dead and four teenagers were injured after a shooting within a Dumfries, Virginia, home on Wednesday morning. The Prince William County Police Department said gunfire rang out at a residence in the 17900 block of Milroy Drive just before 11 a.m. Wednesday. At a news briefing on Wedn Metrorail operator accused of operating train under the influence 01/05/2023 04:45am • A Metrorail operator is accused of operating a train while under the influence and has been arrested. The incident, as first reported by Greater Greater Washington, happened on Dec. 23, after a Blue Line train bypassed the Van Dorn Street Station. It came to a stop for more than 30 minutes and th 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