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A report from the Washington, D.C. Council Office of Racial Equity (CORE) warns that a proposed bill advancing through the District council would have negative impacts on Black and low-income residents. As Suzie Amanuel explains in Washington CityPaper, the Rebalancing Expectations for Neighbors, Tenants, and...

LAUREL, Md. – The Prince George’s County Police Department’s Homicide Unit is investigating a fatal shooting that occurred Friday night. The victim is 33-year-old William Denard Askew of Greenbelt. A reward of up to $25,000 is being offered for information leading to an arrest and indictment in this case.

A D.C. resident is fighting dozens of traffic tickets after someone stole her license plate – and she says she was told she needs to contest the tickets one by one until police find the thief. The resident has received about 80 tickets for $16,000 and counting after someone...

SUITLAND, Md. – The Prince George’s County Police Department’s Collision Analysis and Reconstruction Unit is investigating a fatal crash that occurred in Suitland on Saturday night. The identity of the driver, an adult male, will be released once his family is located and notified. On July 26,...

Da’Quan Tucker, a 23-year-old inmate from Washington, D.C., has been sentenced to 57 months in federal prison for a violent and unprovoked assault on a fellow inmate at the Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) in Otisville, New York. The sentencing was issued by the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern...

SEAT PLEASANT, Md. – The Prince George’s County Police Department’s Collision Analysis and Reconstruction Unit has assumed the investigation into a now fatal pedestrian hit-and-run that occurred in the city of Seat Pleasant. The deceased pedestrian is 25-year-old Antone Brooks of Upper Marlboro. On July 26, 2025,...

Police said a pedestrian was hit by two cars and then died in Seat Pleasant.

In the heart of Washington, D.C., a tense and unnecessary confrontation on a narrow street quickly spiraled into an example of what happens when impatience and entitlement meet common decency. A video posted to the subreddit r/KarenGoBrrr, captioned “Impatience in DC,” captured the moment a resident stepped up to...

Need a medical procedure in the near future? New rankings for the best hospitals in the D.C. area are out and the list this year will look familiar. “All of last year’s top five hospitals were again in the top five. Those include Inova Fairfax at No. 1,” said Ben Harder, chief of health analysis at U.S. News and...

“Attorney General Brian L. Schwalb today announced successful outcomes in two separate appellate cases in which the District sought to hold landlords and developers accountable for harm they caused to DC residents. In one case, the Office of the Attorney General (OAG) secured a decision upholding a Department of...