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DC police: New look at DNA helped solve 2011 home invasion sex assaults 10/13/2022 03:53pm • Police in D.C. say a former District man serving a double life sentence for a 2015 home invasion rape in the Baltimore, Maryland, area is also responsible for breaking into two homes in the D.C. area and sexually assaulting two children years before. Alphonso Owens, 42, was indicted in both D.C. 2 killed in moped crash on Dulles Toll Road 10/13/2022 01:18pm • Two people were killed in the crash of a moped on the Dulles Toll Road on Wednesday night. Nyjell Dae Quan Lewis, 23, of D.C., and Kia Renee Hobbs, 20, of Suitland, Maryland, were killed in the crash at about 9:40 p.m. in the westbound lanes near the Wolf Trap exit, a spokesman for the Metropolit Manassas Park to combat noisy cars 10/13/2022 12:41pm • 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. The city of Manassas Park is hoping to quiet down some of its noisiest cars. The city is taking advantage of a��recent change in state Woman holds out hope for missing Va. blue ribbon squash 10/13/2022 08:34am • Was the blue ribbon award-winning squash stolen or misplaced? After all, it's kind of hard to misplace a 4-foot-long squash. Lydia Nichols of Chesterfield, Virginia, tells WTOP she's holding out hope that she'll be reunited with the tromboncino squash she grew in her backyard, which won a blue ri 2 arrested in theft of DC dogs, 2 puppies remain missing 10/13/2022 05:10am • D.C. police arrested and charged two people Tuesday in connection to the abduction of a dog and seven puppies. Zenobia Fisher and Alphonso Allen of Northeast D.C. were charged with second-degree theft and animal cruelty following an joint investigation into the kidnapping by D.C. police and Human Fairfax Co. chairman calls for changes to notification process for arrested teachers 10/13/2022 04:56am • The chairman of the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors is urging Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin and Secretary of Education Aimee Guidera to make immediate changes to current procedures to ensure that school systems are notified when an employee is arrested. In a letter to Youngkin and Guidera, Cha Pedestrian dead after crash in Fort Washington 10/13/2022 01:33am • A man is dead after being hit by a car in Prince George's County, Maryland, late Tuesday night. According to Prince George's County police, the accident happened around 11 p.m. Tuesday, near the intersection of Indian Head Highway and Kirby Hill Road in the Fort Washington area. When officers No charges for officers who shot, killed armed man at Springfield mall 10/13/2022 12:40am • Fairfax County, Virginia's, top prosecutor will not bring any criminal charges against the officers who shot and killed an armed man at the parking lot of Springfield Town Center. Fairfax County Commonwealth's Attorney Steve Descano said that his investigation found that the two officers who fire DC deputy mayor Geldart resigns in wake of assault charge, residency questions 10/12/2022 06:46pm • D.C.'s embattled deputy mayor for public safety and justice ��� facing scrutiny over an allegation of assault and battery and questions about his residency in Virginia ��� is stepping down. In a news conference Wednesday afternoon, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser said she was "saddened" to announce she Metro's performance report: Ridership rising; crime, customer satisfaction slumping 10/12/2022 04:18pm • Metro's annual performance report says rail reliability and customer satisfaction was high during the first quarter of the fiscal year, but dropped dramatically after that. That���s likely because on Oct. 12, a passenger train derailed due to wheel issues. It sidelined the 7000-series cars, which Curfew consequences: Why crime dropped in Prince George���s Co. 10/12/2022 01:10pm • ���I could go on with probably 25 or 30 more variables for why things like that happen," said Prince George���s County Police Chief Malik Aziz, shown in this file photo. All of that put together, he added, ���can go any way on any given day, because the terrain constantly evolves.��� (WTOP/Michelle Man struck, killed along I-95 shoulder in Fairfax Co. by suspected impaired driver 10/12/2022 11:30am • A man is dead after being struck by a suspected impaired driver on the southbound shoulder of Interstate 95 in Fairfax County, Virginia, on Tuesday afternoon. The Virginia State Police identified the man who was killed as 35-year-old Jose Davi Hernandez-Zelayandia, of Woodbridge. Investigators Wisconsin Avenue in Bethesda reopens after fatal motorcycle crash 10/12/2022 11:24am • A deadly crash involving a motorcycle temporarily closed part of Wisconsin Avenue in Bethesda, Maryland. The crash happened at the intersection of Wisconsin Avenue and Chestnut Street shortly after 7 a.m. Wednesday, when a motorcycle collided with another vehicle, Montgomery County police said. Maryland's forensic DNA database records 10,000th match 10/12/2022 08:30am • A tool used to catch criminals ��� and clear the innocent ��� is proving its worth in Maryland. The state's 30-year-old DNA database has recorded its 10,000th "hit," Maryland State Police Superintendent Col. Woodrow Jones II announced Tuesday. More Maryland News More Crime News Small earthquake rumbles parts of Central Maryland 10/12/2022 07:50am • A small earthquake shook parts of Maryland late Tuesday evening. The U.S. Geological Survey said the magnitude 2.0 earthquake occurred near Sykesville, in Central Maryland, at around 11:49 p.m. Tuesday with a depth of around 3.1 miles. According to the agency's Did You Feel It site ��� which g