Occupants rescued from plane that crashed into power lines in Montgomery Co.

The Montgomery County Public Schools system hosted a family forum event Saturday at Clarksburg High School, where panelists discussed both the dangers of fentanyl and the life-saving potential of Narcan. A panel of health experts, Montgomery county leaders and police held a discussion with parents and students to talk about...

A fire broke out at a two-story row home in Northeast D.C. after reports of a domestic violence situation on Friday night. D.C. police received a call for domestic violence around 4 p.m. and responded to the 1300 block of Bryant Street NE. Police were barricaded outside of the home...

Fairfax County, Virginia, police are searching for the person responsible for allegedly shooting and wounding a dog early Friday morning. Police said, shortly after 3:30 a.m., officers responded to reports after a community member told police they heard a dog barking followed by a single gunshot. When officers arrived on the scene, they found a dog chained to a fence and wounded from a gunshot.

Montgomery County prosecutor John McCarthy says the man charged with knocking a shopper unconscious and stealing his keys in a Gaithersburg, Maryland, Giant grocery store could soon face an additional hate charge. Thirty-year-old Eugene Thompson, who is also known as Michael Stewart, currently faces first-degree assault and strong-armed robbery related...

After a reported spike in youth overdoses in Montgomery County, Maryland, school district leaders say the use of naloxone — an opioid-overdose antidote — in schools has increased in the last several weeks. Montgomery County schools spokeswoman Jessica Baxter told WTOP that the school system has administered Narcan...

The footage of five Memphis police officers severely beating 29-year-old Tyre Nichols earlier this month during a traffic stop has sparked protests nationwide, and has elicited many strong reactions from federal officials as well as local ones in the D.C. area. Nichols, a Black man, died days after being tased...

The Fairfax County Park Foundation in Virginia has received a $20,000 grant from Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation to help with efforts to remove an invasive tree that hosts spotted lanternflies. With the funding, the county’s park authority is expanding efforts to remove a kind of tree known as the “tree-of-heaven”...

Police in Rockville, Maryland, have charged three students, ages 14 and 15, with robbery after an assault inside a bathroom at Richard Montgomery High School earlier this month involving students from another school. Police said they responded to Richard Montgomery on Jan. 13 for a report of an assault that...

Montgomery County, Maryland, public schools admitted that there was a breakdown in communication during the response to a shooting inside Magruder High School last year. The admission comes in a newly released addendum to its after-action report, which came after additional interviews with school staff, first responders and others about what happened in January 2022.

Fire investigators in Fairfax County, Virginia, say a blaze that tore through a house the day after Christmas, killing an 86-year-old woman, was sparked by ornamental lights on a live Christmas tree. The fire has been ruled an accident, officials said in a Jan. 25 update on Twitter. UPDATE-house fire...

Police say excessive speed played a role in the single-car crash in Fairfax Station, Virginia, earlier this month that killed two teen girls and left a third in the hospital. Meanwhile, safety changes are also in the works for the dangerous stretch of road where the crash happened, officials said.

Three separate incidents involving guns have neighbors in Alexandria, Virginia, concerned. Gunshots and an armed robbery in the Parker-Gray Historic District, near Princess and West Streets, have rattled nerves among neighbors who shared their thoughts during a community walk with city leaders early Wednesday evening beneath a steady rainfall. Alexandria...

A man in Prince George’s County, Maryland, has been convicted of stabbing and killing three young girls who were left in his care back in 2017. Antonio Williams, now 30, is due to be sentenced in May after a jury found him guilty Thursday. His trial lasted four days.

A shooting in Prince William County, Virginia, has led police to a group of teens who are now also believed to be behind a string of stolen vehicles. They have connected the three teens, two of them 14-year-old boys, to at least 20 stolen or attempted stolen vehicles across the county between Jan. 12 and Jan. 16.

A family in Dumfries continues to pick up the pieces following a shooting that killed a 3-year-old girl and wounded four of her teenage relatives earlier this month. “Traumatizing, agonizing, overall just very stressful for us,” Trina Rhodes, the victims’ grandmother, said when speaking with NBC 4. Police...

A suspended Baltimore, Maryland, police officer has been sentenced to 42 years in prison for the murder of his stepson in 2021, according to a Anne Arundel County news release. Eric Glenn Banks Jr., was sentenced for the July 2021 murder of his 15-year-old stepson Dasan “DJ” Jones, along with...

The sheriff’s office in Prince George’s County, Maryland, is warning people of a recent phone scam involving calls with scammers impersonating deputies. The callers are claiming to be from the Prince George’s County Office of the Sheriff and are using internal office phone numbers, according to a news release.

Jermar “Coach” Rountree, has already been named D.C.’s “Teacher of the Year.” Now, he’s one of five teachers in the running for the 2023 National Teacher of the year, the country’s top teaching honor. The pre-K to eighth grade health and physical education...

Hear our full conversation on my podcast “Beyond the Fame.”. He cofounded two iconic bands with The Moody Blues and Paul McCartney’s Wings. Next week, Rock & Roll Hall of Fame guitarist Denny Laine plays an intimate solo acoustic concert at Rams Head On Stage in Annapolis, Maryland, on Sunday, Feb. 5.

American Eagles (13-7, 5-4 Patriot) at Navy Midshipmen (11-10, 4-5 Patriot) BOTTOM LINE: Navy heads into a matchup against American as winners of three consecutive games. The Midshipmen are 6-3 in home games. Navy has a 2-1 record in one-possession games. The Eagles are 5-4 in conference matchups. American is...