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ARLINGTON COUNTY, Va. (7News) — Metro Transit Police said a man died Saturday evening after jumping onto the tracks at East Falls Church and walking along the rail line before being struck by an oncoming train. The man was pronounced dead at the scene. Following the fatal incident, train...

The tragic case of Vanessa Pham, a 19-year-old who was brutally murdered after offering a ride to a man and his baby, continues to resonate with many. Vanessa's act of kindness turned fatal when the man, Julio Blanco Garcia, stabbed and killed her. The incident, which took place in 2010, has left a lasting impact on...

The Alexandria Fire Department extinguished a kitchen fire in a West End high-rise apartment yesterday (Sunday) that caused visible clouds of black smoke. The resident of an apartment at the 5800 block of Quantrell Avenue called AFD around 2 p.m. Sunday to report a smoking microwave. Fire crews arrived at the...

SILVER SPRING, Md. — Police are asking for the public's help after a man was ambushed by strangers waiting outside his house in Silver Spring earlier this month. According to the Montgomery County Department of Police, the home invasion and robbery happened in the 800 block of Orchard Way on Nov. 12.

An Annandale-based drug dealer will spend the next 15 years in federal prison for possessing nearly 10,000 fentanyl pills with an apparent intent to distribute them. Marcantonio Juarez Velasquez, 20, was sentenced yesterday (Thursday) in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia — more than a year...

FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va. — Virginia state police arrested a man after he sped away from an attempted traffic stop in Fairfax County and then ran from the scene of a crash before being caught in a local neighborhood early Sunday morning. According to police, Jaiden Riddick, 24, of Clinton...

D.C.’s homeless community was set to be recruited by Texas men federal prosecutors say face charges in an alleged plot to invade a Haitian island, kill its male residents and enslave the women and children as their "sex slaves."

The Montgomery County Police Department (MCPD) is investigating an armed carjacking that occurred Thursday afternoon in the 7700 block of Eastern Avenue in Takoma Park, where two suspects confronted a woman in a parking lot, displayed a gun, and stole her Mercedes C300. The suspects arrived in a Toyota Highlander...

Police arrested a 17-year-old Alexandria resident on Friday after he allegedly fired a gel pellet gun from a moving vehicle in Old Town. The Alexandria Police Department was notified around 12:45 a.m. Friday that a suspect was seen firing an air soft gun from inside a vehicle near the intersection of N. West and King...

WALDORF, Md. — A 63-year-old man with no fixed address is accused of assaulting three people at a Waldorf convenience store, including a woman who tried to help him while he was bleeding, according to charging documents. Norman Randolph Jenkins is charged with three counts of second-degree assault tied...