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Threat of mass violence against Charles Co. elementary school tracked to Md. man 05/25/2022 06:50pm • Before school districts across the region began increasing security in light of the Robb Elementary School shooting in Texas, investigators said a Charles County, Maryland, elementary school received a threat of mass violence. Officers with the Warrant/Fugitive Unit & Domestic Violence Un Natasha Cloud's emotional reaction to Texas school shooting 05/25/2022 01:44pm • Cloud's emotional reaction to Texas school shooting originally appeared on NBC Sports WashingtonThe Washington Mystics organization held another media blackout following the shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas to discuss gun violence and to stress their pleas for government acti ‘The distraction factor is insane’: Md. highway administration worker struck on job urges drivers to use care 05/25/2022 11:32am • This content was republished with permission from WTOP’s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for Maryland Matters’ free email subscription today. A year ago, State Highway Administration worker Ronnie Wright’s truck was rammed by pickup truck. Although the incident hasn’t changed Lorton man gets 22 years for distributing fentanyl that led to woman's overdose death 05/25/2022 11:26am • A man from Lorton, Virginia, was sentenced Tuesday to 22 years in prison for distributing fentanyl, which led to the overdose death of a young woman visiting him from California in 2020. According to court documents, Julian Velasquez, 36, gave counterfeit Xanax containing fentanyl to the woman, i DC-area politicians react to mass shooting at Texas school 05/25/2022 10:15am • Less than two weeks after a deadly mass shooting at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, the nation is now reeling from another mass shooting — this time at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. Nineteen children and two adults were killed in the shooting at Robb Elementary School in the Texas Boy, 15, charged in Woodbridge double murder 05/25/2022 07:34am • 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. Detectives have arrested a 15-year-old boy in connection with a May 15 double murder at a Woodbridge apartment complex. The teenag 2 killed in District Heights crash identified 05/25/2022 07:33am • Two people have died following a Friday night crash in District Heights, Maryland, according to Prince George's County police. Authorities said they responded around 7:50 p.m. to the 5700 block of Marlboro Pike for a two-car crash. More Prince George's County News Marquise Lew Young girl hospitalized after being hit by stray bullet in Woodbridge 05/25/2022 05:56am • An 8-year-old girl was sent to the hospital Tuesday night after police believe she was caught in a shooting in Woodbridge, Virginia. Prince William County police said that responding officers arrived to the 15300 block of Gatehouse Terrace around 7 p.m. on Tuesday to find the young girl suffering DC police identify man killed in Thomas Circle shooting 05/24/2022 11:45pm • Police in D.C. have identified the man killed in a shooting at Thomas Circle in Northwest Monday morning. In a news release Tuesday, D.C. police said 32-year-old Emmanuel Lys, of no known address, was killed in the incident that happened at around 9:30 a.m.  More Local News More DC 'Abundance of caution': DC-area schools step up security presence 05/24/2022 10:48pm • There was an increased law enforcement presence Wednesday around D.C. area schools after  Tuesday’s shooting in Texas that killed 19 children and two adults. Among the schools that will ramp up security include: DC schools Chancellor Lewis Ferebee said there will be a "layered security Panel recommends new names for Fort Bragg, other Army bases 05/24/2022 03:18pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — An independent commission on Tuesday recommended new names for nine Army posts that now commemorate Confederate officers -- including three in Virginia. And for the first time, Army bases would be named after Black soldiers and women, while Fort Bragg would become Fort Liberty Student, 18, stabbed to death in fight near Alexandria City HS 05/24/2022 03:14pm • An Alexandria City High School student was killed Tuesday in a stabbing that was part of a fight involving dozens of young people in the Virginia city. The Alexandria police said the 18-year-old senior was stabbed in a fight at the Bradlee Shopping Center, on King Street, which is under a half mi Police ID man killed in 3-vehicle crash in Prince George's County 05/24/2022 01:50pm • Police in Prince George's County, Maryland, have identified the man killed in Monday afternoon's three-vehicle crash in Seat Pleasant. Jose Hernandez Chavez, 28, of Hyattsville, was waiting at a stoplight when his car was rear-ended by a pickup, causing his car to slam into the car ahead of him, Md. state trooper comes to the rescue of tow truck driver trapped under SUV 05/24/2022 12:19pm • A Maryland State Police trooper maneuvered a tow truck, without training, to help save its operator's life when he got trapped under an SUV in Montgomery County on Monday morning, police said. It happened shortly before 10:30 a.m. when the tow trucker operator was towing vehicles from a crash on Prince George's Co. community steps up for 2 kids who lost parents in car crash 05/24/2022 08:26am • A Prince George's County couple died in a fiery crash over the weekend when their vehicle struck a pole on Annapolis Road in Maryland. Now, family and friends have come together to support the two teenage sons they left behind. More Prince George's County News More Maryland News