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Virginia’s expanding dining landscape now includes three current or planned Buc-ee’s locations, but the commonwealth’s strangest meals are found inside a bank vault, a 10-stool diner and an 18th-century tavern.…

FORT WASHINGTON, Md. - Maryland-National Capital Park Police discharged a weapon during a response Friday night to an active shooter in Fort Washington Park, authorities said. What we know: — Police responded to a call for an active shooter at the park around 6:15 p.m. Once on the scene,...

Benjamin Sifrit — half of the husband-and-wife team that killed and dismembered a Fairfax, Virginia, couple during a 2002 Memorial Day weekend trip to Ocean City, Maryland — is no longer a danger to the public and should be granted early release, his attorney argued in a motion filed this week.

PRINCE FREDERICK, Md. — A Washington, D.C., man is facing multiple criminal charges after Maryland State Police alleged a traffic stop for erratic driving led to the discovery of suspected cocaine. Investigators also allege he later assaulted a correctional officer while being processed at the Calvert County Detention

Prince George's County residents with an interest in what happens to the former Six Flags site get a new opportunity to make their voices heard. The public can now vote on what name is given to the 515-acre project on Central Avenue in Bowie. The amusement park closed for good...

SILVER SPRING, Md. - A man was killed in a crash involving three vehicles in Silver Spring Thursday night, Montgomery County police said. The crash, reported around 9:50 p.m., closed University Boulevard West at Colesville Road. A man was pronounced dead on the scene, and another was taken to a...

Nothing could have prepared me for the phrases “sidewalk piss art” and “greasy holes with hair,” but I suppose I brought it upon myself when I signed up to attend D.C.’s rat academy. Urban rodentologist Bobby Corrigan was describing rat urine and the burrows they...

COLLEGE PARK, Md. - Dozens of cars were broken into overnight at an apartment community in College Park, Prince George’s County police said. Residents at Seven Springs Apartment Community on Cherry Hill Road woke up to find a row of vehicles with shattered windows throughout the parking lot. The...

Someone hears their phone chime, signaling a text. When they check the message, they read that they have an unpaid toll and need to repay it within 24 hours. Maybe they had driven through a toll booth earlier that week, so they think it is possible. They are not sure why the toll would not have been paid in the first p

D.C. police identified the victim who was found shot on New York Avenue NW as 18-year-old Darron Venable.