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From WTOP's Election Desk: Va. Republican House races heat up 05/20/2022 05:03am • Welcome back to WTOP’s weekly election update! WTOP's team of reporters will keep you informed on the latest through November as primary and election races heat up in the District, Maryland, Virginia and nationwide. Local politics and elections | Nick Iannelli Big political weekend in Virginia 1 dead, 1 injured in Southeast DC shooting 05/20/2022 01:31am • Police in D.C. are investigating a shooting in Southeast D.C. Thursday night that killed one man and sent another to the hospital. It happened at around 9:30 p.m. on the 1500 block of V Street near Ketcham Recreation Center. Police said officers found two men with gunshot wounds. One died a Confederate flag found hanging from Charles County high school 05/19/2022 10:57pm • Charles County Public Schools is investigating how a Confederate flag was hung from the flagpole of one of the Maryland county's high schools. On Thursday, cadets from La Plata High School's JROTC found it on the school's main flagpole. School staff removed the flag after it was reported. Civil rights groups join calls for DOJ to revisit Ghaisar case, citing new evidence 05/19/2022 04:58pm • Forty-five organizations, including national civil rights, criminal justice reform and progressive advocacy groups, have joined Capitol Hill lawmakers in asking the U.S. Department of Justice to revisit the case of Bijan Ghaisar, an unarmed motorist killed by the U.S. Park Police in 2017. A lette Montgomery Co. surgical assistant charged with sexual assault 05/19/2022 01:26pm • A surgical assistant has been arrested and charged with sexual assault in Montgomery County, Maryland. Forty-seven-year-old Mir Asadullah Naqvi, of Ellicott City, was arrested Wednesday in connection with an alleged incident after an operation at the Olney Center for Oral and Maxillofacial Surger Victims identified in Beltway wrong-way crash 05/19/2022 11:18am • The Virginia State Police on Thursday identified the two men killed Tuesday in a head-on, wrong-way crash on the Capital Beltway in Fairfax County. Kaan Karabekir was driving south in the northbound lanes of the Beltway near Exit 46 for Chain Bridge Road when he crashed his Mazda 3 into a Buick E Montgomery Co. police release footage of armed robbery at a Silver Spring McDonald's 05/19/2022 01:00am • Police in Montgomery County, Maryland, released footage of a suspect who robbed a fast-food restaurant in Silver Spring. Officers were called to a McDonald's restaurant located on Colesville Road and 2nd Avenue on May 5 at around 12:15 p.m. More Local News More Montgomery County New Montgomery Co. looks into a change in uniform for its police 05/18/2022 11:20pm • Montgomery County Executive Marc Elrich said the Maryland county is considering a new look for its police officers. In the past, Montgomery County police officers wore khaki uniforms. Currently, they wear black. More Local News More Montgomery County News "There's a pretty 4 arrested after gunfire at DC police impound lot in Anne Arundel Co. 05/18/2022 10:10pm • Four people have been arrested after shots were fired at a D.C. police impound lot in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, on Tuesday evening. D.C. police said a special police officer spotted a group of people tampering with vehicles on the temporary impound lot, a D.C. police-owned property along Md. Fairfax County man dies while in custody in Alexandria jail 05/18/2022 09:07pm • Police and the sheriff's office are investigating the death of a Virginia man while in custody at the Alexandria jail. It happened Wednesday after 8 a.m. Deputies found a man having a "medical emergency" in his cell in the booking area of the jail. He was alone. More Local News More Dump truck driver charged with DUI in fatal Anne Arundel Co. crash 05/18/2022 07:42pm • A dump truck driver is in custody after a fatal crash early Wednesday in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. It happened after midnight near the intersection of Interstate 695 and Maryland Route 2. Maryland State Police said that 33-year-old Nathaniel Ingram of D.C. was driving a dump truck as part of Montgomery Co. officials plan meeting to tackle rise in teen violence 05/18/2022 05:33pm • Officials in Montgomery County, Maryland, say they will hold meetings next week to tackle the issue of violent crime — including murder — involving teens. "We need to throw everything at the wall on this one," said County Council member Craig Rice during an online news briefing with County Ex DC police make arrest in 2021 shooting death 05/18/2022 04:01pm • The D.C. police on Wednesday announced that an arrest had been made in a homicide in Southeast last October. Jordan Jones, 21, of Silver Spring, Maryland, has been arrested in the death of Noel Prince Nicol, 18, of Silver Spring, last Oct. 14. Nicol was found shot dead on Savannah Place, in So Men struck and killed in Inner Loop crash identified 05/18/2022 02:51pm • The two men who were struck and killed after they got out of a stopped car on the westbound lanes of the Capital Beltway were identified by police Wednesday. According to police, a Toyota Corolla had stopped in a center westbound travel lane on I-495 near Telegraph Road shortly before 11 p.m. Thu 2 dead in wrong-way 2-car crash on I-495 in Fairfax Co. 05/18/2022 12:02pm • Two men are dead following a two-vehicle crash Tuesday night in the northbound lanes of Interstate 495 in Fairfax County, Virginia State Police said. Authorities said it happened around 10:15 p.m. near Exit 46 for Chain Bridge Road in Tysons. More Fairfax County News More Virginia N