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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 Father of missing children 'cautiously optimistic' as Catherine Hoggle dismissal date nears 11/07/2022 07:21am • With a Dec. 1 deadline three weeks away, the father of Jacob and Sarah Hoggle is "cautiously optimistic" a Montgomery County judge will, after eight years, determine the children's mother Catherine Hoggle is competent to stand trial. Under Maryland law, if Hoggle is not found competent to stand t Woman shot during I-270 road rage incident in Frederick Co. 11/07/2022 04:57am • A woman was shot in the leg after another driver fired at her vehicle Sunday night during an apparent road rage incident in Frederick County, Maryland. Maryland State Police said the woman was driving a dark blue Jeep Wrangler shortly before 7:45 p.m. Sunday on northbound Interstate 270, south of Man running from police struck by vehicle on Dulles Toll Rd. 11/06/2022 09:42pm • A police investigation into shots fired at an elementary school led to a pedestrian crash in Herndon, Virginia, Sunday afternoon. In a video published on Twitter, Fairfax County Police said that around 4 p.m. on Sunday, officers responded to Hutchison Elementary School at 13209 Parcher Ave. after Study: More than 37 million US motorists drive drowsy at least once a year 11/06/2022 06:19pm • A new survey suggests that every year, millions of motorists in the United States operate a vehicle when they are too tired to drive. Tthe National Sleep Foundation last week released results of a new survey highlighting attitudes and behaviors toward drowsy driving. It showed that, while 95% of