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(Potomac, MD)  —  Three people are under arrest in connection with a pair of February inside-job armed robberies at a CVS pharmacy in Potomac.  Montgomery County Police say 35-year-old Fenton Graham of Silver Spring worked as a supervisor at the store in the 79-hundred block of Tuckerman Lane and was on the job February 6th […]

(Alexandria, VA)  —  Two gang members from Northern Virginia are pleading guilty to charges of playing a role in a sex ring which preyed on high school girls.  In Alexandria federal court today, 21-year-old Michael Jeffries of Woodbridge and 23-year-old Christopher Sylvia of Springfield admitted they helped recruit girls by flattering them about their looks […]

(Lorton, VA)  —  A U.S. State Department employee faces multiple counts of possession of child pornography.  Fifty-four-year-old Carl Carey was arrested at his home in Lorton.  His arrest comes about a year-and-a-half afterFairfax County police executed a search warrant on his home in 2010.  The State Department suspended Carey without pay at that time.  Carey […]

(Prince George’s County, MD)  —  Prince George’s County police say a six-year-old boy was killed Monday in a shooting that appears to have been an accident.  Police say the boy was handling a gun that he found in a backpack, when it went off inside a home on Arbutus Lane.  County homicide detectives are considering […]

MEDIA ALERT Contact: Director of News/Community Affairs Sheila Stewart, 301-429-2639 WPRS-FM (Praise 104.1) Teaming Up Again With St. Jude In The Fight Against Childhood Cancer Lanham, MD– Radio One DC Station WPRS-FM Praise 104.1 will host The Annual St. Jude Radiothon onThursday, April 5th, 2012 from 6a-10pat their new facility located at 8515 Georgia AvenueSilver […]

(Washington, DC)  —  Maryland Senator Ben Cardin easily won his Democratic primary.  His closest competitor, Prince George’s County state Senator Anthony Muse, got 16-percent of the vote to Cardin’s 74.  Cardin will next face former Secret Service agent Dan Bongino who won the Republican primary.  In Maryland’s 6th District, Republican Roscoe Bartlett was the winner […]

(Washington, DC)  —  There’s a close primary race of an at-large seat on DC Council.  With all precincts reporting, Democratic Councilmember Vincent Orange led Sekou Biddle 40-percent to 39-percent.  It’s not official, with absentee ballots to be counted next week.  Orange defeated Biddle last year in a special election.  In other council races, Marion Barry, […]