Man slain by gunfire apparently was driving car
The unidentified driver was pulled from his car after it left the road and struck a tree.
Senator has his license suspended for a year after DWI conviction
Senator told a police officer who had pulled him over that he had consumed “several shots of vodka.”
Taxi driver stabbed, cab stolen in Northwest
Police search for the attacker and cab in the Friday morning carjacking.
- Justin Wolfe case moves back to federal appeals court
- Former Pr. William principal gets probation for embezzlement using school credit cards
- D.C. sees drop in killings, rise in sexual assaults
- Former jail guard expected to reach plea deal in Ronnie White case
- Mailbox bombing probed at Treasury official’s Lorton home
- Police say man found dead in Adams Morgan shaft likely fell
- Capital murder defendant, Justin Wolfe, will not be freed in Pr. William
- Reston Zoo director pleads guilty in drowning of wallaby
- Virginia Supreme Court overturns injunction over negative Yelp review
- Man escapes Beltway chase in Fairfax County
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- D.C. police say man sexually assaulted woman at gunpoint in Southeast
- Pr. William officer killed in crash
- Teen victim of fatal accident in D.C. identified
- Man killed after pickup crashes, bursts into flames
- Man killed in hit-and-run in Virginia
- Man, 23, fatally shot in Southeast D.C.
- Man found fatally shot identified by police
East Coast Rapist
He got the urge. His heart raced. ‘Bam,’ the first rape was committed.
East Coast Rapist suspect for the first time publicly admits to terrorizing women in D.C. area and beyond.
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