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Firetruck Rolls Over Onto SUV En Route To Assist Agency With Maryland House Fire: Sheriff Firetruck Rolls Over Onto SUV En Route To Assist Agency With Maryland House Fire: Sheriff
Firetruck Rolls Over Onto SUV En Route To Assist Agency With Maryland House Fire: Sheriff Authorities say that a Charles County Fire water tanker truck was involved in a crash, reportedly while on its way to assist another agency with a house fire on Wednesday afternoon. At approximately 5 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 16, the Charles County Sheriff's Office issued an alert advising that the agency was investigating a crash involving a firetruck and SUV. The truck was reportedly on its way to assist Prince George's County first responders, according to WJLA.   Officials said the incident happened on Route 210 near Hawthorne Road. There was one person in the truck and one person in …

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by Zak Failla
Police & Fire
UVA Shooting Suspect In Custody, Victims ID'd As Football Players: Officials UVA Shooting Suspect In Custody, Victims ID'd As Football Players: Officials
UVA Shooting Suspect In Custody, Victims ID'd As Football Players: Officials Authorities have arrested the suspect wanted in the University of Virginia shooting that left three people dead and two wounded on Sunday, Nov. 13. Christopher Darnell Jones Jr., a UVA student and former walk-on football player from the Petersburg area, was taken into custody just before 11 a.m., according to the UVA Police Department. The 22-year-old was captured on the 5700 block of Edgelawn Street, after an officer spotted the suspect's vehicle in the eastern part of Henrico County, local police said on Twitter. Good evening, On behalf of the Henrico County Sheriff’s Office, please …

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by Nicole Acosta & Cecilia Levine
Police & Fire
Oxon Hill Popeyes Killer Sentenced For Stabbing Man Who Cut In Line For Food Oxon Hill Popeyes Killer Sentenced For Stabbing Man Who Cut In Line For Food
Oxon Hill Popeyes Killer Sentenced For Stabbing Man Who Cut In Line For Food A man who stabbed a person to death outside of a Popeyes in Oxon Hill has been sentenced to over two decades in prison, reports WJLA. Ricoh McClain, 32, was convicted last April of killing Kevin Davis, 27, outside of the restaurant in the 6200 block of Livingston Road on Nov. 4, 2019 after Davis allegedly cut several people in line to order food, the outlet continues. McClain and Davis got into an argument about the incident before walking outside where McClain fatally stabbed Davis. McClain has been sentenced to serve 22 years in prison for the murder. To read the full story by WJLA, click…

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by Annie DeVoe
Police & Fire
Dating Profile Of VA 'Werewolf Killer' Has Prosecutors Worried For Single Women Dating Profile Of VA 'Werewolf Killer' Has Prosecutors Worried For Single Women
Dating Profile Of VA 'Werewolf Killer' Has Prosecutors Worried For Single Women Pankaj Bhasin's dating profile says he's an easygoing adventurer who just got back from two years of traveling.  What it doesn't say is that he's nicknamed the "Werewolf Killer" and that his vacation was actually a three-year stint in a Northern Virginia mental institution. Bhasin, 37 — who has ties to Blackwood and East Brunswick, NJ — was found not guilty by reason of insanity a year after he drove from his Central Jersey home to Alexandria, VA and fatally stabbed 65-year-old Bradford Jackson, a complete stranger to him.   Bhasin was released from the N…

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by AJ Goldbloom & Cecilia Levine
Police & Fire
Two Arrested After Driving Into Prince George's Police Officer, Several Police Cruisers Two Arrested After Driving Into Prince George's Police Officer, Several Police Cruisers
Two Arrested After Driving Into Prince George's Police Officer, Several Police Cruisers Two people were arrested after hitting a Prince George's County police officer and several police cruisers with a car, reports WJLA. Officers patrolling the 3300 block of Walters Lane when they noticed an illegally parked vehicle around 9:10 p.m., Wednesday, Sept. 8. When an officer got out to approach the vehicle, the vehicle sped off, hitting the officer and multiple police cruisers as it fled down Pennsylvania Avenue, the outlet continues. Police chased the vehicle for about three miles before stopping it in the 4300 block of Byers Street, where an unidentified man and woman were taken i…

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by Annie DeVoe
News
Fairfax County Students Invent Automated Walker In Aim To Treat Parkinson's Symptoms Fairfax County Students Invent Automated Walker In Aim To Treat Parkinson's Symptoms
Fairfax County Students Invent Automated Walker In Aim To Treat Parkinson's Symptoms Two young women from Fairfax County have worked together to create an ingenious device to treat symptoms of Parkinson's disease, WJLA said. Kaavya Karthikeyan and Akanksha Tibrewala, best friends and classmates at Chantilly High School, invented an automated walker to assist people with Parkinson's and those who struggle to walk, the website said. Two years ago, inspired by Tibrewala's great-grandmother who had Parkinson's disease, the two students began the project after notificing there were no automated walkers for people with disabilities, reports said. The two girls are both passionat…

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by AJ Goldbloom