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Here's Updated Timing For Storm System With Heavy Rain, Strong Winds Here's Updated Timing For Storm System With Heavy Rain, Strong Winds
Here's Updated Timing For Storm System With Heavy Rain, Strong Winds A pleasant start to the weekend will not last across the Northeast, as a storm system triggered by a strong cold front threatens to make parts of it wet and unsettled. Click here for a new, updated story - Potent Storm System Will Bring Drenching Downpours: Updated Timing The National Weather Service says the main window for showers and thunderstorms will develop from Saturday, Sept. 12, into Sunday morning, Sept. 13, as another disturbance moves into the region. Locally, heavy rainfall is possible, especially overnight. Around New York City and nearby areas, the National Weather Se…

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by Joe Lombardi
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Maryland Man Found Shot In Middle Of Road ID'd As Killer Remains At Large: Police (UPDATED) Maryland Man Found Shot In Middle Of Road ID'd As Killer Remains At Large: Police (UPDATED)
Maryland Man Found Shot In Middle Of Road ID'd As Killer Remains At Large: Police (Updated) A Maryland gunman remains in the wind after leaving a 32-year-old man dying in the middle of the road. Rafael Jeremias Brewster, of Beltsville, has been identified as the man found shot at approximately 2:05 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 10, in the 1700 block of January Drive in White Oak, Montgomery County Police confirmed on Friday. Brewster was lying in the roadway with an apparent gunshot wound when officers and paramedics arrived. First responders attempted to save him, but Brewster was pronounced dead, police said. An autopsy conducted by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner later det…

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by Zak Failla
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Rape Fugitive's 90 MPH Escape Killed Maryland Mom Waiting For Bus: Prosecutors Rape Fugitive's 90 MPH Escape Killed Maryland Mom Waiting For Bus: Prosecutors
Rape Fugitive's 90 MPH Escape Killed Maryland Mom Waiting For Bus: Prosecutors Leonard Warren was desperate to get away. That decision ended with a Maryland mother dead and, more than a year later, the District resident headed to prison. Warren, 25, was sentenced for the Feb. 28, 2025 crash in Prince George's County that killed 33-year-old Esmeralda Carolina Montoya-Perez as she waited for a bus. The deadly chain of events began when a Hyattsville Police officer spotted Warren, who was wanted on a second-degree rape warrant, behind the wheel and attempted a traffic stop. Warren initially pulled over. Then he took off. Despite not having a valid driver's licens…

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by Zak Failla
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Ex-Maryland Cop Convicted Of Attempted Murder Won't Spend A Day In Prison, Judge Rules Ex-Maryland Cop Convicted Of Attempted Murder Won't Spend A Day In Prison, Judge Rules
Ex-Maryland Cop Convicted Of Attempted Murder Won't Spend A Day In Prison, Judge Rules A former police officer convicted of attempted murder in Maryland won't spend a day of his sentence behind bars. Robert Warrington, 37, a former City of Bowie police officer, was sentenced on Friday, Sept. 11 in Prince George's County Circuit Court in connection with a September 2024 shooting along Collington Road in Bowie. The sentence: 30 years, with all but 18 months suspended. Those 18 months will be served on home detention. The punishment came nearly four months after the same judge found Warrington guilty following a two-day bench trial in May. Prosecutors had asked that Warringto…

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by Zak Failla
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ICE Refused To Tell Maryland Cops If Agents Had Warrant Before Clash: Chief ICE Refused To Tell Maryland Cops If Agents Had Warrant Before Clash: Chief
ICE Refused To Tell Maryland Cops If Agents Had Warrant Before Clash: Chief ICE agents had a blunt response when Maryland police asked whether they had a warrant during an operation that ended in a violent confrontation with protesters. “We’re not gonna discuss that with you.” That’s what Frederick Police Chief Kevin Meyer said federal agents told his officers during the Sept. 4 operation in the Taskers Chance neighborhood, according to Hagerstown Rapid Response, citing a Sept. 9 interview with WFMD. The exchange is the latest development following a nearly two-day ICE presence in Frederick that ended with agents using batons to remove protesters who had linked ar…

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by Zak Failla
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Six Kids Hurt After Vehicle Leaves Road, Strikes Group Near Maryland High School (DEVELOPING) Six Kids Hurt After Vehicle Leaves Road, Strikes Group Near Maryland High School (DEVELOPING)
Six Kids Hurt After Vehicle Leaves Road, Strikes Group Near Maryland High School (Developing) A group of kids wound up in the hospital after a vehicle veered off a Maryland roadway near a high school. At least six juveniles were struck near Dundalk High School in Baltimore County at approximately 2:45 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 11, according to Baltimore County Police. Investigators say the vehicle reportedly left the roadway in the area of Delvale and Holabird avenues before striking the pedestrians. All six were taken to area hospitals with non-life-threatening injuries, police said. The crash prompted a response from the department's Crash Team and caused delays in the area during t…

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by Zak Failla
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Virginia Teacher Spends Last Day Stepping Up For Students Before Immigration Delay Forces Exit Virginia Teacher Spends Last Day Stepping Up For Students Before Immigration Delay Forces Exit
Virginia Teacher Spends Last Day Stepping Up For Students Before Immigration Delay Forces Exit Darwin De La Cruz spent one of his last days as a Virginia teacher making sure his students would have instruments after he was gone. On Thursday, Sept. 3, the Herndon orchestra teacher drove to a warehouse in Springfield, loaded up 100 instruments for young musicians at Dranesville and Herndon elementary schools, hauled them back and prepared them for students, according to colleague Allison Devereux. Then he went to Back to School Night. By the next day, De La Cruz could no longer work for Fairfax County Public Schools. "He could have said I’m done, but he went. He always goes abov…

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by Zak Failla
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Mom Who Dumped Bloody Jacket After Daughter Said She 'Caught A Body' In Maryland Learns Fate Mom Who Dumped Bloody Jacket After Daughter Said She 'Caught A Body' In Maryland Learns Fate
Mom Who Dumped Bloody Jacket After Daughter Said She 'Caught A Body' In Maryland Learns Fate A mother's love knows no bounds. Yolanda Wilkes pleaded guilty to attempting to conceal an assault committed by her daughter and two others in Baltimore, though she avoided additional time behind bars, according to the State's Attorney's Office. The charges stem from an alleged aggravated assault involving three juveniles that unfolded in the 800 block of West Lombard Street on Feb. 15, an incident that escalated enough that a police officer ultimately fired his weapon. On February 15, 2026, at approximately 12:05 a.m., a Southwest District patrol officer was called to a home in th…

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by Zak Failla
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Rabid Beaver Was 'As Big As His Brother' When It Mauled Boy At Maryland Park, Family Says Rabid Beaver Was 'As Big As His Brother' When It Mauled Boy At Maryland Park, Family Says
Rabid Beaver Was 'As Big As His Brother' When It Mauled Boy At Maryland Park, Family Says High school got off to a rough start for a Maryland boy who was mauled by a massive beaver that left him hospitalized with critical injuries. “D” was swimming in the designated swimming area at Cunningham Falls State Park near Thurmont in July, when his family says a roughly 4-foot-long beaver came out of the deeper water and attacked him. His aunt, Leigh Cebula, said “D” had been swimming underwater looking for fish while his mother and 8-year-old brother watched from shore. It was a place the family knew well. Cebula said “D” had been swimming there since he was little, and that she had…

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by Zak Failla
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Lyft Driver's Discount Deal With 2 Maryland Women Takes Terrifying Turn In Virginia: Police Lyft Driver's Discount Deal With 2 Maryland Women Takes Terrifying Turn In Virginia: Police
Lyft Driver's Discount Deal With 2 Maryland Women Takes Terrifying Turn In Virginia: Police The Lyft driver who abducted two Maryland women in Virginia has been tracked down after a rideshare from hell. Falls Church resident Adar Bulut, 25, was arrested after two women returning from an event out of state found themselves trapped in his vehicle over a dispute about how much they owed him, according to the Prince William County Police Department on Friday, Sept. 11. The 32- and 25-year-old women had requested a ride through the Lyft app to take them home to Woodbridge early Sunday morning, Sept. 6, according to investigators. Police say their driver, later identified as Bulut, pic…

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by Zak Failla
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Teen Survives Days On Overturned Boat In Frigid Sea After Brother, Cousin Die Teen Survives Days On Overturned Boat In Frigid Sea After Brother, Cousin Die
Teen Survives Days On Overturned Boat In Frigid Sea After Brother, Cousin Die A teen boy was rescued from an overturned boat in the Bering Sea after surviving for days without food or water while his brother and cousin died, officials said. Derek Parker Aghnaanga was found sitting on top of a capsized skiff about four miles east of St. Lawrence Island, Alaska, on Monday, Sept. 7, the Coast Guard said in a news release. The 15-year-old had been fishing for halibut with his older brother and cousin when the small boat overturned. The three had left on Friday, Sept. 4, from Savoonga, a city on St. Lawrence Island, Alaska's News Source reported. …

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by Chris Spiker
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Maryland Parents Charged After 2-Month-Old Daughter Dies With Signs Of Trauma: Police Maryland Parents Charged After 2-Month-Old Daughter Dies With Signs Of Trauma: Police
Maryland Parents Charged After 2-Month-Old Daughter Dies With Signs Of Trauma: Police Two parents are facing multiple charges for their alleged roles in an infant's death in Maryland. Officers from the Baltimore Police Department were called shortly after 1 a.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 9, to Harbor Hospital to investigate a reported infant death. Upon arrival, officers learned that 2-month-old Aida Alvarado had recently been pronounced deceased by medical staff. Members of the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner responded and recovered the infant’s remains. Investigators say the preliminary findings indicate that the infant suffered trauma to the body. During the investigati…

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by Zak Failla