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'He is Fairfax County’s most wanted' -- reward increased for suspect in fatal shooting 11/30/2022 03:51pm • Fairfax County, Virginia, police are still searching for the suspect in an October shooting that killed a 31-year-old Maryland man. And on Wednesday, they announced the reward for his arrest has jumped from $1,000 to $11,000. More Virginia News More Fairfax County News Kyju Lost emu helps deer hunter snag buck 11/30/2022 08:59am • A Wisconsin police sergeant has quite the ‘buck tale’ to tell! Sixteen-year-old Summer Theys couldn’t help but think the worst when her three pet emus escaped their enclosure in Cecil. When Appleton native Asher Torbeck saw something walking near his fence, he knew exactly what that two-legged Hyattsville chief credits mom, officers with getting rifle away from sleeping teen 11/30/2022 08:22am • Hyattsville Police Chief Jarod J. Towers credits a mother for trusting his department and officers for successfully retrieving an assault rifle from a sleeping teen. The mother of the 15-year-old boy called police to the family's home, in the 3500 block of Madison Place, around 8 p.m. Sunday. Road closures for Christmas tree lighting, and a traffic parody you must hear 11/30/2022 04:35am • Traffic during the Christmas Tree lighting is usually terrible downtown. Will drivers have visions of sugarplums or brake lights dancing through their heads? WTOP traffic reporter Dave Dildine penned a parody of a Christmas classic. Listen below or read the full tale.   Now for the pa China to punish internet users for 'liking' posts in crackdown after zero-COVID protests 11/30/2022 03:24am • Internet users in China will soon be held liable for liking posts deemed illegal or harmful, sparking fears that the world's second largest economy plans to control social media like never before. China's internet watchdog is stepping up its regulation of cyberspace as authorities intensify their Fairfax County schools instructional assistant charged with embezzlement from Target 11/29/2022 09:43pm • An instructional assistant at Eagle View Elementary School in Fairfax County, Virginia, has been arrested on a charge with felony embezzlement from her part-time job at Target. Denise Pitkin-Tilson, 55, of Chantilly, is accused of stealing more than $10,000 in cash, gift cards and merchandise fro Frederick County deputies shoot, kill man they say stabbed parents 11/29/2022 08:45pm • Deputies in Frederick County, Maryland, shot and a killed a man who they said stabbed his parents, killing his father, in the predawn hours on Tuesday. The Frederick County Sheriff's Office said the suspect was armed at the time he was shot by deputies. It happened in the 5800 block of Haller Pla Convicted rapist arrested for two Silver Spring attacks 41 years ago 11/29/2022 08:36pm • Forty-one years after two women were attacked in Maryland, a man convicted of rape is under arrest for the alleged attacks. Marion Edward Pearson Jr., 65, of Durham, North Carolina, was arrested Monday with help from the Durham County Sheriff's Department. He's awaiting extradition to Maryland. Prince George's Co. sheriff remembered as trailblazer in DC, Md., Va. law enforcement 11/29/2022 08:25pm • Prince George's County Sheriff Melvin C. High (Courtesy Prince George's County Sheriff's Office) Tributes poured in for Prince George's County, Maryland, Sheriff Melvin High, who died earlier this month, from dignitaries and from High's daughter, who described his life as one of service and Md. driver who stopped to remove something from the road struck and killed 11/29/2022 03:58pm • A woman who got out of her car to remove something lying in the roadway was struck and killed by another driver, police in Prince George's County, Maryland, said. The crash happened around 8:30 p.m. Monday in the area of Indian Head Highway and Livingston Road. More Local News More ‘Seatbelts save lives’: Va., Md. detail holiday traffic fatalities 11/29/2022 02:29pm • The state police in Virginia and Maryland on Tuesday released the numbers on crashes, injuries and deaths on their highways over the Thanksgiving weekend. In the five-day period starting last Wednesday and running through Sunday night, 14 people in Virginia were killed — 10 in vehicles, three New unit probes 23 deaths involving police in its first year 11/29/2022 01:59pm • A unit in the Maryland attorney general's office investigated 23 fatalities involving police in its first year and so far none of the investigations have resulted in officers being charged, the office said Tuesday. The unit completed reports on 13 cases in the first year, according to the report Assault charges dropped against ex-DC deputy mayor 11/29/2022 01:54pm • Assault and battery charges have been dropped against a former D.C. official who was accused of grabbing another man by the neck in an Arlington, Virginia, gym parking lot. Online court records confirm that prosecutors dropped the charges against 53-year-old Chris Geldart, who was formerly the Di Plane stuck in transmission tower to 911: 'Please hurry' 11/29/2022 12:01am • One person, who was injured after a small plane crashed into a power transmission tower in Montgomery Village, Maryland, Sunday evening and then dangled in the wires for several hours, has been released from the hospital. Montgomery County officials gave an update on the plane crash Monday aftern Quantico Marine seeks to have his Jan. 6 case suspended 11/28/2022 08:06pm • 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. An active duty U.S. Marine stationed at Quantico wants to suspend his Jan. 6 case until an appeals court can determine if the attempt