Matt Delaney

Parked patrol car of slain D.C. officer becomes an impromptu memorial to his life

D.C. Metropolitan Police Department officers are remembering Wayne David this week by covering the slain officer's patrol car with mementos honoring his legacy as a crime fighter and as a man who cared about others.

September 3, 2024

Suspicious details in deaths of N.Y. family found in home fire spur homicide investigation

Police in upstate New York said Monday that the deaths of a family of four found in a weekend house fire are being investigated as homicides after authorities observed non-burn-related injuries on the victims.

September 2, 2024

Armed man shot dead by D.C. police after lunging for officer’s weapon

Two D.C. police officers shot and killed an armed man early Sunday in Southeast after authorities said the suspect tried to grab a gun out of an officer's hands.

September 2, 2024

Maryland officials select firm to rebuild collapse bridge in Baltimore

Maryland transportation officials on Thursday chose a Nebraska-based firm to begin rebuilding the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore.

August 29, 2024

D.C. police officer dies after suspect’s abandoned gun misfires in Northeast

A D.C. police officer died late Wednesday, hours after a suspect's discarded gun misfired and shot the officer while he was trying to retrieve it.

August 28, 2024

Loose gun misfires, hits D.C. police officer during retrieval on Northeast highway

D.C. police said an officer was wounded Wednesday evening after a loose gun discharged while the cop tried to fish it out of a highway storm drain in Northeast.

August 28, 2024

D.C. activists say write-in campaigns to replace Trayon White could benefit Republican challenger

Democrats in the District's Ward 8 warned Wednesday that the write-in campaigns being floated by council hopefuls looking to replace struggling incumbent Trayon White, who was arrested last week on federal bribery charges, could end up putting a Republican in office.

August 28, 2024

Couple convicted of causing 2022 Hamptons house fire that killed Maryland sisters

A New York couple pleaded guilty this week to causing the deaths of two Maryland sisters when the couple's ritzy Hamptons rental home went up in flames two years ago due to shoddy construction work.

August 28, 2024

Deadly crashes in District on track to match last year despite fleet of traffic cameras

Traffic deaths in the District are on pace to match last year's spike, despite a growing web of enforcement cameras at intersections and along busy roads.

August 27, 2024

Naresh Bhatt, husband of missing woman, ordered to remain in jail in Northern Virginia

A judge in Northern Virginia on Monday ordered the husband charged in the disappearance of his wife to remain behind bars as the case proceeds.

August 26, 2024

Brother kills siblings, niece in Long Island home dispute before taking own life

Police in New York said Monday that the live-in adult son of a recently deceased matriarch shot and killed his three siblings and his niece before turning the gun on himself outside the late mother's Long Island home.

August 26, 2024

Two elderly women from Arizona found shot dead in Mexican state of Sonora

The FBI said Saturday it is helping Mexican authorities investigate the fatal shooting of two Arizona women in the Mexican state of Sonora.

August 25, 2024

Arizona police search for ex-con who made threats on Trump’s life

A manhunt was underway in Arizona on Thursday for a convicted sex offender who authorities said threatened to kill Donald Trump during the former president's campaign stop at the southern border.

August 22, 2024

Husband charged in case of missing Virginia woman

Police arrested and charged the husband of a missing Virginia woman Thursday after the young mother vanished last month.

August 22, 2024

Teen pleads guilty in deadly beatdown of disabled D.C. man; four other girls to go to trial

A teen girl pleaded guilty Tuesday for her role in last year's fatal beating of a disabled man in Northwest, while the other teen girls charged in the case will head to trial next month.

August 21, 2024

White’s case latest black eye for D.C. City Hall; Mayor Barry’s drug raid tops all

The bribery case unfolding around D.C. Council member Trayon White is the latest in a long line of scandals featuring D.C. politicians accused of lying, stealing and flouting the law in a city they swore to serve.

August 21, 2024

Council staff to keep ‘serving the public’ despite boss’s felony bribery charge

The office for D.C. Council member Trayon White released a statement Monday saying the Ward 8 Democrat's staff will keep working even as the elected official deals with his bribery case in federal court.

August 20, 2024

D.C. Council member Trayon White charged with bribery in federal court

D.C. Council member Trayon White was charged Monday with bribery in federal court following his arrest in Southeast the day before.

August 19, 2024

Man disappears in California river while trying to save son

Police in Northern California said a father dove into a river Sunday to save his son, and then never resurfaced.

August 19, 2024

D.C. Council member arrested by FBI

Federal authorities on Sunday arrested D.C. Council member Trayon White in the Navy Yard neighborhood.

August 18, 2024