LOCAL CRIME & PUBLIC SAFETY

Cornelius McDonald, an advocate who urged teens against gun violence, was fatally shot Saturday in Prince George’s County.

Two years after the fatal shooting of her teenage son, a Prince George’s County mother starts a foundation in his honor.

Authorities did not immediately say whether the man was struck by police gunfire or shot himself.

A motorcyclist crashed into a police cruiser early Saturday morning in Northwest Washington.

A woman found shot to death in 1973 was never identified, so investigators commissioned a 3D rendering of her head, hoping someone will recognize her.

Authorities charged Katharine Thompson, 69, and Jonathan Thompson, 31, with felony murder in the death of Jeremy Thompson, 32.

Brandon Lemagne died in a May 11, 2023, altercation with Fairfax County police officers at a gas station in the Alexandria area.

An FBI agent acquitted of attempted murder two years ago for shooting a man on a Metro train was charged Monday with two counts of second-degree rape.

The boy fell out of the rear of a vehicle on Interstate 97 in Anne Arundel County and was struck by an oncoming car.

The attack reportedly occurred at Osbourn Park High School in the Manassas area during the first two weeks of the school year, authorities said.

The lawsuit alleges the founder of an anti-police activist group established in the District misdirected funds meant for charity.

The incident occurred near Game Preserve Road between Gaithersburg and Germantown, authorities said. It was near the one-lane bridge.

A Montgomery County police officer argues that revealing records of investigations into his conduct would be unconstitutional and violate his privacy.

The man had been released from jail four days earlier, authorities said, after serving a sentence that did not take into account his full criminal history.

The topic was whether life without parole should be abolished. The inmates said the opportunity gave them purpose.

A Maryland man who lived with his dead pregnant girlfriend in his apartment for almost a month was convicted of murdering the mother and unborn child.

Francesco Marlett was suspended last year after a viral video showed him in uniform getting in the back seat of his cruiser with a woman.

Kenika Danielle Leach was arrested after a two-year investigation into an alleged sex-trafficking ring.