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2+ hour, 8+ min ago   (121+ words) A man will spend more than three decades in prison after a football rivalry turned deadly. A judge sentenced 23-year-old Antonio Hawley to 32 years behind bars for first-degree murder. Hawley was 18 when investigators say he shot 26-year-old Aaron Wiggins. They…...

13+ hour, 11+ min ago   (124+ words) The 1975 mystery of who killed a dancer in a Howard County industrial park started to unravel in a Loyola University classroom. A forensic science student in a 2023 course on cold cases approached guest speaker Detective Wade Zufall, Howard Police’s one-man…...

18+ hour, 15+ min ago   (407+ words) Washington DC, October 11, 2026 – Today, Washington DC is bracing for heavy rain and gusty winds as Tropical Rainstorm Isaias approaches. With a high of 20°C and a low of 14°C, residents can expect significantly elevated humidity levels of about 93%....

1+ day, 7+ hour ago   (220+ words) The director of the D.C. Mayor's Office on Returning Citizen Affairs was killed in a deadly scooter crash Friday night. Talib Shakir died after the scooter he was on collided with another scooter at around 6:47 p.m. at Eighth Street and Pennsylvania Avenue…...

1+ day, 9+ hour ago   (214+ words) Antonio “Slick” Hawley was sentenced to 32 years in prison Friday for the fatal shooting of Aaron Wiggins after a flag football game at a school in Southeast D.C. Judge Danya Dayson also ordered Hawley to serve five years of…...

1+ day, 10+ hour ago   (111+ words) A man died and a woman was injured when the electric scooters they were riding collided in a D.C. intersection on Friday, police said. Police went 8th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue SE at 6:47 p.m. after receiving reports of a crash involving two scooters....

1+ day, 12+ hour ago   (791+ words) This article was republished with permission from WTOP’s news partners at Maryland Matters. Read the story at Maryland Matters. State officials are taking another close look at how Maryland’s nonprofit hospitals store billions of dollars in “captive insurance” companies domiciled…...

1+ day, 20+ hour ago   (297+ words) As concerns grow over information overload and how much technology is around us, the D.C. Public Library is stepping in with programs to help people. Chelsea Kirkland is the digital inclusion coordinator with the library system who is behind the effort....

1+ day, 22+ hour ago   (815+ words) Blind singer-guitarist Raul Midón is bringing his transcendent music to the Mansion at the Strathmore in North Bethesda, Maryland, on Sunday. The blind singer and guitarist from New Mexico has been wowing audiences worldwide for more than two decades. His…...

2+ day, 6+ hour ago   (484+ words) Residents of the newly renovated animal shelter in Prince George’s County, Maryland are waiting for a leash and a ride home. Officials celebrated the county animal shelter’s first major upgrade in 17 years with a ribbon-cutting ceremony Friday in Upper Marlboro,…...