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WALDORF, Md. – On October 7 at approximately 10:21 p.m., officers responded to the area of October Place in Waldorf for a reported armed robbery. The victim reported that he was walking home when an unknown male approached and demanded his jacket. When the victim hesitated, the suspect displayed...

A Virginia man apparently dressed as if he were going to a wedding while breaking into closed medical offices and allegedly stealing equipment and cash. Fairfax County police said 67-year-old Carlos Anthony Mitchell of Woodbridge ... Read more

Muralist Patrick Kirwin is at it again in Alexandria. Kirwin recently started work painting a large new mural behind The Birchmere (3701 Mount Vernon Avenue) in Alexandria’s Arlandria neighborhood. The work will feature generations of builders in the city and was commissioned by Rust Construction, a fourth-generation, Alexandria-based home remodeling firm.

WASHINGTON (7News) — A man running through a parking lot with another man allegedly chasing him with a shotgun. Seconds later, a shot is fired. The frightening scene unfolded in broad daylight Thursday outside the New York Avenue Men's Shelter in Northeast D.C., as customers sat on the patio of a restaurant next door.

Coal miners, their families and medical professionals from Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia gathered in the nation’s capital on Sept. 30 to meet with senators and representatives to advocate for improving black lung benefits and protections, according to a statement. The statement said the group, which also included...

Several roads will be closed for the 42nd annual Army 10-Miler on Sunday, Oct. 11 in Virginia and D.C. The run starts at 7:50 a.m. on Route 110 where thousands of participants will take in the sights of Capitol, the Lincoln Memorial and the Pentagon. As Hurricane Isaias makes its...

A Virginia police officer tasked with upholding the law is accused of breaking it while wearing his uniform. Fairfax County Master Police Officer Scott Abram, 44, of Spotsylvania, a 23-year veteran assigned to the School Resource Officer Unit, is facing two misdemeanor shoplifting charges following …

An 18-year-old who left her Washington, DC, home to celebrate her birthday and never returned has been identified 40 years after her body was found beside a Pennsylvania highway, state police announced on Friday, Oct. 9. Gladys T. Johnson, known as “Tinker,” was identified this month as the woman wh…

Climb the stairs above Sushi Yoshi on Church Street and you’ll hear it before you see it: the bright, unmistakable click-clack of tiles being shuffled across a table, followed by a burst of laughter. Welcome to The Bamboo Room, Vienna’s new home for mahjong, and the passion project of local resident Jennifer Groves.

There weren’t enough beds when Claude Swanson, 68, first came to Emery Men’s Shelter last year. Instead he slept on a cot in the shelter’s basement. “It worked havoc on my back,” he says, laughing. “But I made it through.”. Long-term residents at low-barrier shelters,...