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Search Enters Third Day For Missing Potomac River Swimmer Near Sandy Landing
More than two days after one swimmer made it safely to shore and another disappeared beneath the river's powerful current, Maryland rescue crews were back on the water Thursday morning, July 30, hoping to bring the search to an end. The latest operation resumed around daybreak on Thursday near Spotzbergen Rock, just south of Sandy Landing in Montgomery County, where an approximately 25-year-old man vanished around 1:30 p.m. on Tuesday, July 28. Montgomery County Fire and Rescue's Swift Water Rescue Team returned with boats equipped with sonar and search dogs after crews spent hours combing …
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Annandale Man Shot After Attempting To Disarm Officer During Search, Police Say
Nehemia Fuentes Banegas had already stabbed himself. Then he vanished into the woods. The bizarre chain of events ended Tuesday morning, July 28, when Fairfax County police say the 26-year-old Annandale man suddenly burst from thick brush, grabbed an officer's handgun and was shot during the struggle. It all began around 9:57 a.m. at a home in the 7000 block of Sutter Lane, where officers responded to a domestic dispute involving Fuentes Banegas. By the time officers arrived, investigators said Fuentes Banegas had armed himself with two knives, accidentally stabbed himself with one an…
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$20B Overhaul Planned At Dulles Airport: Here's What To Expect
Dulles International Airport is getting a makeover unlike anything in its history. Virginia's busiest international airport is set for a sweeping transformation under a new $20 billion-plus plan announced Wednesday, July 29, that promises new terminals, expanded flight capacity, faster security, improved baggage handling and the eventual retirement of some of the airport's oldest facilities. The Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority joined President Donald Trump, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy and United Airlines executives at the White House to unveil the partnership, which offic…
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Bomb Threat Shuts Down Main Street Area In Virginia Town (
Developing
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A bomb threat has brought a large police response to a Virginia downtown, forcing evacuations and closing off part of Main Street. The threat was reported just after 3 p.m. on Tuesday, July 29, when someone called the Fauquier County Emergency Communications Center to report a bomb threat targeting a business in Warrenton, according to the Fauquier County Sheriff's Office. Civilian evacuations have been completed, and law enforcement officers have begun clearing the area for any potential threats, authorities said. The area remains closed as of the sheriff's office's latest update, issued …
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: Bodycam Shows Final Moments Before Maryland Man Dies In Police Custody
The moments leading up to a Maryland man's death while in police custody are now public. The Maryland Attorney General's Office on Wednesday, July 29, released body-worn camera footage from Greenbelt police officers who responded after 40-year-old Michael MacDougall crashed off the Baltimore-Washington Parkway in Prince George's County earlier this month. The video, released by the Independent Investigations Division, captures officers arriving after US Park Police had already detained and handcuffed MacDougall following the crash. In the video, MacDougall can be seen lying in the grass no…
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Maryland Murder Fugitive's Run Ends Years After Cross-Country Escape To California
Raymond Garfield Campbell III made it all the way to California. He should have kept going. Nearly six years after a Hagerstown man was gunned down in broad daylight, the fugitive who fled across the country after the killing has been sentenced to spend the rest of his life behind bars. Raymond Garfield Campbell III received two consecutive life sentences plus another 35 years on Tuesday, July 28, after a judge sentenced him for the October 2020 murder of 40-year-old Daynard Johnson, the Washington County State's Attorney's Office announced Wednesday. Prosecutors said Campbell followed Joh…
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Young Mom Says She's 'Ready To
Fight
' After Life-Changing Cancer Diagnosis
The people who know Maegan Showalter all seem to tell the same story: she's the one who shows up. The Maryland wife, mother and friend has spent years celebrating others, lending a hand without being asked, and helping carry people through life's hardest moments. Now, after an aggressive breast cancer diagnosis turned her own life upside down, an entire community is trying to return the favor. Showalter received the news from her doctors in June. Since then, the Mechanicsville mother has begun weekly chemotherapy and immunotherapy, with multiple surgeries still ahead. The trea…
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Teen's Hair Slashed During Attack On Elementary School Basketball Court In Virginia: Police
A robbery is one thing. Having your hair slashed with a knife is another. A 17-year-old boy was cut on the hand and had his hair sliced during an early morning robbery on the basketball courts at an elementary school, according to Prince William County Police. The attack happened around 10:08 a.m. on Sunday, July 26, at King Elementary School in the Woodbridge area. Police said the teen was on the courts when three acquaintances approached him. What happened next was unexpected. Investigators said two of the group assaulted and robbed the victim. During the attack, one of the suspect…
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Maryland Drug Bust Reveals One Tiny Detail That Triggered Machine Gun Charges, Sheriff Says
One search warrant. Two handguns. More than $10,000 in cash. That's what deputies say they uncovered Wednesday morning during a drug investigation in Maryland that ended with a Lexington Park man facing a slate of felony charges. The St. Mary's County Sheriff's Office executed search warrants on July 29 at a home in the 21000 block of Mary Margaret Court in Lexington Park, where investigators say they found suspected cocaine, suspected crack cocaine, drug paraphernalia, two firearms and bundles of cash. The suspect, identified as 45-year-old Ofori Holmes, was arrested after deputies allege…
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Car Thieves Thwarted By Technology After Theft Spree Near VA Border, Police Say
Their biggest mistake wasn't stealing from unlocked cars. It was taking electronics detectives could trace. In Maryland, what began as a string of overnight thefts from unlocked vehicles in Bethesda ended inside a Gaithersburg Motel 6, where Montgomery County detectives say they found two suspects, stolen property and firearms tied to a separate case. The thefts happened during the early morning hours of July 14 in neighborhoods along Broad Brook Drive, Enfield Road, Page Avenue and Locust Hill Road. Surveillance cameras captured two men walking from vehicle to vehicle, pulling on door ha…
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Married DC National Guard Major From Virginia Built Double Life With Fake Divorce, Feds Say
One fake divorce. Two weddings to the same woman. And a stack of bogus government documents to keep the whole thing going. Collin L. Welch, a 40-year-old DC National Guard major from Arlington, pleaded guilty in federal court in Washington to an immigration fraud scheme that prosecutors say stretched from Mongolia to Virginia and was partly funded with $54,000 in stolen government money. Welch was already married when he began a relationship with a Mongolian woman in 2019 while posted to the US Embassy in Ulaanbaatar, according to court documents. So he created a divorce decree. The docum…
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Cup Tossed, Gun Drawn: Woman Wanted After Wild Virginia Bar Fight Escalates (
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Some people throw a drink. Others throw a punch. Police say one woman skipped straight to a gun. Prince William County police are searching for an Ashburn woman accused of turning what started as a run-of-the-mill bar fight into a felony after she was allegedly hit with a cup outside a Woodbridge nightclub. Officers were called to El Establo on Richmond Highway around 1:47 a.m. on Sunday, July 26, after reports of a gunshot in the parking lot. Investigators say 31-year-old Avisha Brianna Smith and an acquaintance had gotten into an altercation with an unknown man when things took a turn. …
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