Alexandria VA

Alexandria Police Chief Tarrick McGuire received praise from City Council Tuesday night for a 30% overall crime reduction in 2025. In a presentation to City Council, McGuire said that violent crime went down an average of 29%, a difference of 111 offenses. Overall property crime was down by an average of 30%, a...

A U.S. Park Police officer was shot Monday evening in southeast Washington, D.C., authorities said.

Two people were displaced after a fire was extinguished in an Arlandria apartment Tuesday evening, according to the Alexandria Fire Department. AFD responded at around 6:30 p.m. to a kitchen fire on the first floor of a three-story apartment building in the 3800 block of Milan Drive. No injuries were reported, and no...

An after-school fight that surged and ebbed for almost an hour on March 18 near Francis C. Hammond Middle School resulted in the arrests of two juveniles and left another youth with minor injuries. Police estimate there were around 50 to 100 juveniles involved in the brawl. Reports of the...

I’m writing to let everyone know that the Feds are now policing our local parks as well. Last night, a parent was detained by 10 federal agents at Petworth Rec Center for having an open container. They had no jurisdiction to arrest him. (the park is city land, not...

VIRGINIA — A large-scale drug trafficking organization operating through vape shops in Northern Virginia has been dismantled following a multi-agency investigation, according to the Fairfax County Police Department. Detectives with the department’s Organized Crime and Intelligence Bureau executed search warrants...

The Independent Investigations Division (IID) of the Maryland Office of the Attorney General today released the body-worn camera footage from an incident in which a man died following his release from police custody. The incident involved the Montgomery County Police Department and occurred on Monday, Dec. 15, 2025,...

We need to talk about the kids in Washington, D.C., and why blue cities need to wake up. Last weekend, roughly 200 juveniles flooded Navy Yard, one of the city’s busiest dining and nightlife districts. What followed was exactly the kind of chaos D.C. residents have become far too used to: fights, robberies,...

This Saturday, Washington is set to become the final stop for the third major "No Kings" mobilization, as marchers converge on the Arlington side of the Potomac and stream across the Memorial Bridge toward the National Mall. Organizers plan to stage the gathering at Memorial Circle near Arlington National Cemetery,...

A stabbing defendant waived his preliminary hearing before DC Superior Court Judge Charmetra Jackson Parker on March 23. Andre Towsend, 48, is charged with assault with a dangerous weapon and assault with significant bodily injury for his alleged involvement in a stabbing that took place at 801 East Men’s Shelter,...