A Southeast D.C. row‑home fire sent a firefighter to the hospital and displaced three adults, two children and a cat.

Shots were reported near the White House Saturday evening, sending press into the briefing room while the FBI and Secret Service responded and investigators secured nearby streets.

A former MPD and Arlington officer who worked at Rivermont Schools' Lorton campus was arrested May 21 after an undercover online investigation and faces solicitation charges.

Virginia forensics found human hairs and fragments on a reciprocating saw recovered from the Manassas home linked to the disappearance of Mamta Kafle Bhatt. Prosecutors say the traces add to a no‑body case against her husband.

A Sumerduck man was arrested after deputies say he tried to sell a captured juvenile fox; police say a firearm was seized and commercialization charges were filed.

A man indicted on multiple sexual‑offense counts involving a minor was arrested in Landover and is being held without bond.

Anthony Eugene Robinson was sentenced to life in prison for two 2021 Harrisonburg murders. Investigators still probe possible linked deaths in Fairfax County and D.C.

An 18-year-old was indicted on 69 counts after a Jan. 22 Metrobus dispute turned into gunfire at a Northwest D.C. bus stop that wounded five people.

A Glymont Middle School student was found with a knife after a bus driver reported a sliced seat. The student faces a juvenile weapon charge and school discipline while police investigate.

A United flight from Newark diverted to the Washington area after a passenger tried to open a door at 36,000 feet, the pilot told controllers. FBI agents met the jet at Dulles and investigators are reviewing the incident.

A Woodbridge man was arrested after police say he assaulted volunteers at a church food bank; one person was bitten and taken to the hospital.

The Supreme Court dismissed Alabama’s appeal on May 21, 2026, leaving in place lower‑court findings that Joseph Clifton Smith is intellectually disabled.

Federal prosecutors say two Florida men are accused of bribing a U.S. Army employee and padding contracts tied to a Honolulu innovation lab. The indictment names a Palm Beach Shores resident and a Tampa consultant.