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On Sept. 11, 2001, four al Qaeda terrorists hijacked United Airlines Flight 93 shortly after it departed Newark International Airport in New Jersey for San Francisco. The hijackers stormed the cockpit, overpowered the captain and first officer, and turned the Boeing 757 toward Washington. As news of the attacks in New

Darwin De La Cruz spent one of his last days as a Virginia teacher making sure his students would have instruments after he was gone. On Thursday, Sept. 3, the Herndon orchestra teacher drove to a warehouse in Springfield, loaded up 100 instruments for young musicians at Dranesville and Herndon elem…

RAMSEUR, N.C. (WGHP) — A remembrance was held on the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks in honor of Sandy Bradshaw, a Piedmont Triad woman who was killed while aboard United Airlines Flight 93. The remembrance for Sandy Bradshaw took place at Eastern Randolph High School and began...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Members of the military, civilian employees, and passengers flying from Virginia to Los Angeles were among the 184 victims who lost their lives at the Pentagon 25 years ago. The attack on the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, rattled the heartbeat of our nation and its security.

A teenager was sentenced Friday in the 2023 shooting death of another teen inside a gas station convenience store in Prince George's County. The victim, Robert Walker, and the suspect were both 16 years old at the time, and had both stopped in the Clinton store to get snacks when the shooting happened.

Leonard Warren was desperate to get away. That decision ended with a Maryland mother dead and, more than a year later, the District resident headed to prison. Warren, 25, was sentenced for the Feb. 28, 2025 crash in Prince George's County that killed 33-year-old Esmeralda Carolina Montoya-Perez as sh…

A woman suffered serious injuries when she returned to her car to find a 19-year-old man inside before he took off in the car, dragging her along with it, Maryland cops say. The post Woman returns to her car to find a stranger behind the wheel before he drags her along the road, seriously injuring her: Authorities fir

Thank you for reading this post, don't forget to subscribe!. This morning is starting wet across the region as a wave along a cold front has brought in rain. This moved in earlier and farther south than expected, so the impact is already being felt across metro Washington, Baltimore, and Annapolis.

Arlandria-Chirilagua parents again asked the School Board to restore their buses. Decisions on appeals are due Sept. 30, and staff are still writing the standard for what makes a route unsafe.

Takoma Park’s SOKO Butcher earned recognition in both the “Best Sandwich” and “Best Butcher Shop” categories in Washington City Paper’s Best of D.C. awards. The sandwich category includes offerings from restaurants across D.C., Maryland and Northern Virginia. Founded by chef and butcher Brad Feickert,...