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Montgomery Co. officers spread holiday joy, taking dozens of kids gift shopping 12/11/2022 05:24am • Like many of us do during the holiday season, police officers in Montgomery County, Maryland, enjoyed a little retail therapy Saturday morning – but they weren't shopping for themselves. Instead, they were shopping with kids from economically disadvantaged backgrounds, hoping to make their holi Police: 'Suspicious' death in Arlington Co. park under investigation 12/11/2022 03:54am • A man has died after police found him unresponsive in a park in Arlington, Virginia, Friday night. The man’s death, which police are calling suspicious, remains under investigation. The Arlington County Police Department received a report of "trouble unknown" just before 10 p.m. According to Maryland politicians decry anti-Semitism, embrace Jewish group’s policy agenda 12/10/2022 03:34pm • This content was republished with permission from WTOP’s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for Maryland Matters’ free email subscription today. With reported acts of anti-Semitism on the rise in Maryland and across the nation, dozens of leading state politicians gathered at a synagog Suspect remains at large following gunfight in downtown Frederick 12/10/2022 09:49am • An officer-involved shooting in downtown Frederick, Maryland, ended with one suspect evading police Friday night. Following the city’s Kris Kringle parade, police said two men got into an argument that escalated into traded gunfire around 8:20 p.m. near the intersection of South Market Street a What to expect during Wreaths Across America at Arlington National Cemetery 12/10/2022 05:06am • Wreaths Across America returns on Saturday, Dec. 17, to Arlington National Cemetery, as well as to 3,500 other locations across the U.S. and around the world. It is expected that 80,000 people will go to the famous Virginia cemetery to put wreaths on the graves of the at least 400,000 men and wom 16-year-old boy arrested in Benning Road Metro Station shooting 12/09/2022 09:53pm • A 16-year-old boy has been arrested and charged in the shooting at the Benning Road Metro station in Northeast D.C. that injured three people. Metro Transit Police said in a statement Friday that the teenager is being charged with attempted second-degree murder and carrying a gun without a licens Metro Transit Police releases video showing moments before Metro Center shooting 12/09/2022 09:13pm • Metro Transit Police released two angles of footage showing what happened before and after Wednesday's shooting at the Metro Center Metro station involving an off-duty FBI agent killing a man. The video showed several passengers waiting for a train to come on a Red Line platform. Two men, later i Decomposing body found in Montgomery Co. gas station shooting suspect’s home 12/09/2022 05:50pm • A suspect is in custody for the shooting death of a White Oak, Maryland, gas station employee Thursday afternoon — and authorities later found a woman dead in his apartment. Montgomery County officials said 31-year-old Torrey Moore was arrested Friday morning and accused of killing 61-year-old Metro Transit police search for man suspected of throwing urine on bus driver 12/09/2022 12:06pm • Surveillance images of a man sought for throwing urine on a bus driver and harassing passengers on the Metrobus F4 route. (Courtesy MTP) Metro Transit police are trying to identify a man they say threw urine on a Metrobus driver in Lanham, Maryland. It happened just after 10 p.m. Friday, Dec. Teen overdoses in Va., Md. tied to counterfeit pills laced with fentanyl 12/09/2022 12:05pm • An alarming new phase of the opioid crisis appears to be escalating, with more overdoses being reported in parts of the D.C. region tied to counterfeit painkillers that are laced with the extremely dangerous drug fentanyl. According to Prince William County police in Virginia, officers respon Road closures for Sunday's Jingle All the Way race 12/09/2022 11:17am • The Jingle All the Way 5K/15K race will be held this weekend in D.C., bringing road closures around the National Mall. More Local News More Transportation News More DC News The following streets will be closed to vehicle traffic on Sunday, Dec. 11, from 6 a.m. to 12 p.m.: Fairfax Co. police release bodycam footage after man dies in custody 12/09/2022 11:04am • Police in Fairfax County, Virginia, have released bodycam footage depicting the moments leading up to a man's death in police custody last month. Police said Temiki Murray, 44, of Lorton, appeared to be under the influence of drugs when he ran into traffic on Amherst Avenue in Springfield, Virgin Woman wanted in overdose death of toddler in Gainesville 12/09/2022 10:36am • 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. Tiffany Nicole Stokes is wanted for felony homicide in the negligent death of her toddler to a fentanyl overdose. (Prince William County Judge likely to uphold Quantico Marine’s Jan. 6 charges 12/08/2022 10:44pm • 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. A federal judge seems likely to uphold the charges against an active duty U.S. Marine stationed at Quantico arrested for his role in the Suspected serial killer pleads guilty in 1987 Fairfax Co. murder 12/08/2022 09:50pm • A convicted killer, who in 2021 told police he committed two unsolved murders in the D.C. region, has begun pleading guilty to those killings. After he was indicted by a grand jury in January, Charles Helem pleaded guilty to killing Eige Sober-Adler, 37, back in 1987 in Fairfax County, Virginia.