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DISTRICT HEIGHTS, Md. — A 19-year-old defendant has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit murder and armed robbery, while a second 25-year-old suspect is preparing to face a jury trial in connection with an alleged fatal shooting and robbery over a jacket in Upper Marlboro. Investigators say surveillance footage...

Department of Employment Services Director Unique Morris–Hughes violated several D.C. regulations when she approved tens of thousands of dollars in public funds for food and entertainment for all-staff events, according to findings from the D.C. Office of the Inspector General. In a report dated June 2025, the OIG...

Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia. D.C. Police Chief Pamela Smith, the first Black woman to lead the Metropolitan Police Department, is stepping down after two years in the job. Mayor Muriel Bowser announced Monday, Dec. 8, 2025, that Smith’s final day will be Dec. 31. Smith later...

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Governor Wes Moore will meet with U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy this week about the Francis Scott Key Bridge rebuild, as well as other local transportation projects. Duffy sent a letter to Moore in September about the Key Bridge, offer collaboration between DOT and Maryland on how to best construct...

Catherine Hoggle, a Maryland mother with an extensive history of severe mental illness, has been deemed competent to stand trial on charges of killing her two children in 2014.

Detectives with the Gaithersburg Police Department have arrested a man in connection with a shooting that occurred in late October near the Rio Lakefront area. In an update released on December 10, police announced that 41-year-old Christopher Renta, of Gaithersburg, has been taken into custody. Renta is charged with...

Maryland’s criminal system has long operated like an engine built to run roughshod over Black lives, and the data makes that plain: Black people represent roughly 30 percent of the state’s population but make up about 71 percent of those behind bars. That imbalance is a monument to deep-seated structural policies and...

The settlement follows a state investigation into allegations that students with autism faced mistreatment during a class visit to a Maryland Cracker Barrel

Detectives from the Montgomery County Department of Police – 3rd District Investigative Section are asking for the public’s assistance in locating Nelson Antonio Diaz Castillo, a missing 35-year-old. Diaz Castillo was last seen on Wednesday, December 10, 2025, around 3 p.m. in the 9100 block of Piney Branch...