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Oakton homeowner shoots, kills intruder 11/10/2022 08:47am • An Oakton, Virginia, homeowner shot and killed a man in what police are calling self-defense after the man attacked the homeowner with a large landscaping rock inside his home Wednesday night. "We're fortunate nobody else was injured by this incident. There are two children that were inside the h DC attorney general to make 'major announcement' on Commanders 11/09/2022 11:40pm • D.C.'s attorney general says he'll make a "major announcement" at 1 p.m. Thursday regarding the Washington Commanders. The news came in a statement from Karl Racine's office, which was sent out late Wednesday morning. There were no additional details. More Washington Commanders News After Wes Moore's historic win in Md., what's on his agenda? And what can he get done? 11/09/2022 10:10pm • After Democrat Wes Moore's historic victory in the Maryland governor's race Tuesday, he offered up an optimistic bipartisan vision to supporters, pledging to bring the state together and "leave no one behind." But in addition to the soaring rhetoric, the political newcomer ticked off a laundry li 2022 DC election: Bonds wins, Silverman concedes to McDuffie in DC Council at-large race 11/09/2022 08:40pm • It was a crowded race for the two at-large seats in the D.C. Council, with eight candidates elbowing for the top spots in a race fraught with an accusation about misspent public funds. Incumbent Anita Bonds was projected as one of the winners with more than 32% of the votes, The Associated Press Woman found guilty of killing mother, sister in Fairfax Co. has conviction vacated 11/09/2022 08:13pm • Less than a year after she was found guilty of murdering her mother and her sister in 2017, Megan Hargan's conviction has been vacated. “We are disappointed that a juror’s inappropriate actions led to this double murder conviction being vacated. We are still committed to getting justice for t 2022 Maryland election: Moore projected winner in history-making governor's race amid Dem. sweep; voters OK legalized recreational pot 11/09/2022 01:15pm • Democrat Wes Moore was elected Maryland governor Tuesday, besting Republican Dan Cox and becoming the first Black person elected governor of the state amid a Democrat sweep of statewide races. The Associated Press called the race for Moore shortly after polls closed at 8 p.m. Moore's victory w Nobel Prize stolen from home of South Africa's last apartheid leader 11/09/2022 06:46am • Nelson Mandela, President of the South African National Congress (C), and South African President FW de Klerk (R) display their Nobel Peace Prizes in Oslo, Norway, after being awarded jointly the prize for their work to end apartheid peacefully, on December 9, 1993. (GERARD JULIEN/AFP/Getty) &nb 2022 DC election: Bowser wins historic 3rd-consecutive term as DC mayor 11/08/2022 11:59pm • Muriel Bowser thanks the crowd after being declared the winner of the D.C. mayoral race. (WTOP/Mike Murillo) Muriel Bowser has sailed to victory and into history as only the second person to secure three consecutive terms as D.C. mayor. The only other person to have achieved the feat was Mari DC police make arrests in shooting that killed 15-year-old in Northeast 11/08/2022 05:19pm • D.C. police have made arrests in connection to a shooting that killed a 15-year-old in Northeast last month. Andre Robertson Jr., of Northeast D.C., was shot and killed while sitting on a porch near Kelly Miller Middle and Aiton Elementary schools after 3:30 p.m. on Oct. 13. His father was als 2 pedestrians killed in crash near Gaithersburg polling site 11/08/2022 12:00pm • Two people have died after being struck by a car at a polling location Tuesday morning in Montgomery County, Maryland. The police said the crash happened around 7:20 a.m. as the two were at a crosswalk on School Drive near Muddy Branch Drive and Fields Road Elementary School in Gaithersburg. Va. attorney general who disagreed over role of SROs tours Alexandria High School 11/08/2022 05:32am • Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares visited Alexandria High School Monday, meeting with officials he disagreed with several months ago over the role of police in schools following a stabbing near the school that killed a student. Miyares toured the city's only high school upon invitation from Overturned cement mixer blocks traffic on Inner Loop 11/07/2022 08:30pm • An overturned cement mixer on the Beltway. (Courtesy Montgomery County Fire and Rescue/Pete Piringer) An overturned cement mixer stopped traffic on the Inner Loop of the Capital Beltway near the University Boulevard exit Monday afternoon. Two right lanes reopened about 5 p.m., and all lanes r DC mayor echoes police chief in concern over gun cases involving youth 11/07/2022 08:18pm • There's been a 52% increase in the number of juveniles shot in D.C. so far this year compared to the same period last year. Mayor Muriel Bowser said the city is doing all that it can to reduce the number of shootings; and while she said some progress is being made, she also expressed great concer DC police seek car linked to fatal shooting of teenager near Washington Convention Center 11/07/2022 05:34pm • Police say a person fired at a group of people in Northwest D.C., killing a teenage boy. (Courtesy D.C. police) Police in D.C. are looking for a car they say is linked to the fatal shooting of a 15-year-old boy last Friday. Makai Green, of Northwest, died following the shooting in an alley on Teen pleads guilty to attempted murder in Magruder High shooting 11/07/2022 03:21pm • A teen accused of shooting and nearly killing a classmate inside a bathroom at a Montgomery County, Maryland, high school in January pleaded guilty Monday to attempted murder. Steven Alston Jr., who turned 18 in August, is accused of obtaining the parts and building a so-called "ghost gun," which