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Prince George’s County delays action on police reform measures 05/31/2022 05:05pm • Police reform measures passed by the State of Maryland last year are set to take effect July 1, and while some counties have created new accountability boards and processes, others are still working to get there. In Prince George’s County, an expected vote by the county council was delayed Tues Racist graffiti found inside Va. school's restroom 05/31/2022 04:27pm • Police in Prince William County, Virginia, are investigating racist graffiti found inside a restroom stall last week at a Woodbridge high school. Swastikas, profanity and offensive images were found inside a boys restroom at Hylton High School on May 24, police said. "The drawings did not appe Man found dead outside Reston apartment complex 05/31/2022 03:05pm • Police in Fairfax County, Virginia, are investigating the death of a man found at an apartment complex in Reston. Described as Hispanic and in his 20s, police said that the man was found by a woman out walking her dog around 4 a.m. Tuesday in the 12000 block of Greywing Square, near Colts Neck Ro Hyattsville man identified as drowning victim near Sandy Point State Park 05/31/2022 02:09pm • A man from Hyattsville, Maryland, was identified as the man who drowned off the coast of Sandy Point State Park on Sunday, according to police. Maryland Natural Resources Police said that William Enrique Villatoro, 43, was overtaken by the current after he jumped off his family's boat to cool of Research addresses equity in DC's walkability 05/31/2022 09:45am • New research suggests that improving how walkable D.C. is would require more than adding sidewalks and access to transportation around town. The Urban Institute's new report on walkability argued that exposure to noise and air pollution, how close someone is to schools, jobs and hospitals and few 17 years later, Prince William Co. police still looking for murderer 05/31/2022 09:33am • Oscar Maradiaga was 39 when he was killed near a homeless encampment in 2005, but police in Prince William County, Virginia, said they haven't given up on finding his killer. "Seventeen years have passed, and family and friends hope for closure," police said in a news release last Sunday. Man killed in Temple Hills shooting 05/31/2022 02:17am • Police in Prince George's County, Maryland, are investigating a shooting in Temple Hills that killed a man early Saturday morning.  The shooting took place at around midnight on Naylor Road near the D.C. and Maryland border.  More Prince George's County News Officers arrived Man dies after water rescue in Potomac River 05/30/2022 11:18pm • A man is dead after he jumped off a boat anchored in the Potomac River at Fort Washington, Maryland, Monday evening. Emergency crews in Prince George's County responded to a call for a water rescue at the 11500 block of Riverview Road around 6 p.m. According to Maryland Natural Resources Polic Online threats not 'credible,' but Montgomery Co. high school adding police, staff as kids return 05/30/2022 07:00pm • Officials at Winston Churchill High School in Montgomery County, Maryland, believe that there is "no immediate, credible threat," but there will be additional staff and police present following online threats to the school that were widely shared on social media. In a letter to the school communi Man drowns off shore near Sandy Point State Park 05/30/2022 12:37pm • A man drowned Sunday after he was overtaken by the current while swimming in the Chesapeake Bay near Sandy Point State Park, police said. Maryland Natural Resources Police said their officers responded to a call about an unresponsive man being pulled from the water around 12:30 p.m. Sunday. Police: 1 dead, 3 injured in Maryland motorcycle crashes 05/29/2022 03:33pm • HANCOCK, Md. (AP) — Police say a woman was killed and three other people were injured when three motorcycles crashed on a Maryland highway on Sunday. A State Police news release says 53-year-old Sandra Kay Wetzel, of Hagerstown, Maryland, died after she lost control of a 1995 Honda motorcycle a Motorcyclist hospitalized after alleged Prince George's Co. hit-and-run 05/29/2022 03:22pm • A motorcyclist was hospitalized Sunday morning after being involved in an alleged hit-and-run crash in Prince George's County, Maryland. Maryland State Police said they responded to the crash along the eastbound side of Route 50 near Kenilworth Avenue around 10:30 a.m. Sunday. Upon arriving, they Md. teen shot dead in Southeast identified as local rapper 23 Rackzs 05/29/2022 11:05am • The 16-year-old Maryland boy shot and killed Thursday in Southeast D.C. was identified as an up-and-coming rapper from Prince George's County. Justin Johnson of Temple Hills performed under the name 23 Rackzs and released an album titled Rookie of the Year in 2021.   Angela Davis on social change: 'No movement is possible without hope' 05/29/2022 10:22am • After more than 50 years, Angela Davis is still instantly recognizable worldwide as the face of revolution. But at the age of 78, she has come to terms with her image. Asked to comment on her likeness appearing in posters and murals, she said, "I felt really uncomfortable, and that is because I What can Australia teach us about guns and gun control? 05/29/2022 10:00am • Carolyn Loughton flung herself on top of her daughter when a gunman with a high-powered rifle opened fire on a group of tourists in Australia, but it was not enough to save Sarah's life. The shooting, in a café in the Tasmanian town of Port Arthur in April 1996, resulted in 35 people killed, an