Thieves target Inova at Landmark construction site for copper wire
The Alexandria Police Department is investigating the theft of copper and security wire from the Inova Alexandria Hospital at Landmark construction site. No arrests have been made, but around 4:15 p.m. on Aug. 30, the senior superintendent of Clark Construction reported a burglary to APD. Just 10 minutes before, at 4:05 p.m., surveillance footage showed a white U-Haul cargo van drive into the construction site and two male suspects enter one of the hospital buildings under construction, accordin
D.C.’s Supply of Housing Vouchers Is About to Be Replenished
This article is part of City Paper’s 2026 contribution to the D.C. Homeless Crisis Reporting Project in collaboration with other local newsrooms. The collective works will be published throughout the week here. With the start of the fiscal year on Oct. 1, the District’s supply of Permanent Supportive Housing...
ICE arrests accused illegal immigrant MS-13 gang leader in Maryland
HYATTSVILLE, Md. (7News) — ICE agents said they arrested a high-ranking leader of the notorious MS-13 transnational gang who is also on the U.S. Department of Justice’s Terror Watchlist. ICE told 7News reporter Nick Minock that on Sept. 11, ICE arrested Franklin Ariel Espinal-Cabrera, 29, in Hyattsville, Maryland.
Search continues for 2 missing Prince George’s County teens
GREENBELT, Md. - Two Maryland families are searching for their missing 16-year-old daughters, Sydney Brown and Dahlyla Gordon, who have been missing for six days. The two Greenbelt teens were last seen in a local neighborhood on the morning of Saturday, Oct. 3. According to their families, the teens said they were walking to a nearby gas station and planned to go for a car ride with a person unknown to their parents. Neither teen has been seen since.
Maryland State Champion Leopold Nurit Sends 2028 Verbal to Michigan
Maryland State Champion Leopold Nurit Sends 2028 Verbal to Michigan. NEW COMMIT: The University of Michigan has scored a new verbal commitment for the 2028-29 season and beyond from Bethesda, Md. native Leopold Nurit. Nurit is a distance freestyler and Summer Nationals qualifier. He will join Max Garbacz in Ann...
Missing University of Maryland student found alive after days-long search
COLLEGE PARK, Md. (7News) — A University of Maryland (UMD) student who sparked a days-long campus and community-wide search after disappearing has been found alive, police said. Dilan Ashar, 22, was last seen at around 2:30 a.m. Oct. 2 on security cameras at the Terrapin Trail Parking Garage. He...
Update on Mike Locksley’s future at Maryland
Maryland is a 5-touchdown underdog at No. 5 Ohio State on Saturday (4:15 p.m. ET, BTN), but a blowout loss to the Buckeyes is not expected to end Mike Locksley's 8-year coaching tenure. That's according to Jeff Erdman of Inside MD Sports and John Talty of CBS Sports, who both...
Alexandria Man Ran Cross-Country Fentanyl Pipeline From LA To DC: Feds
“Fat Bags” was making a lot of trips out west. Dozens of times over more than three years, Alexandria resident Karon Olufemi Blalock flew to Los Angeles to buy bulk quantities of fentanyl-laced counterfeit pills before bringing them back to the DC area, federal prosecutors say. Sometimes they came ba…
The Legendary Pulled Pork At This Down-Home Maryland BBQ Joint Deserves A Standing Ovation
There’s a house in Odenton that used to just be a house, and now it’s where people go to fall in love with pulled pork. The Hideaway sits tucked into a quiet stretch of town, looking like somebody’s grandmother’s place from the outside, and honestly that’s part of the charm.
MS-13 Leader Convicted of Ordering Murders From El Salvador Prison, Including Montgomery County Killing
Two MS-13 members have been convicted in federal court on racketeering charges stemming from murders and drug trafficking in the Washington, D.C. area, including the killing of an MS-13 member in Montgomery County. According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia, Moises Humberto Rivera-Luna, 56, of

















