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WOL-AM News and Community Affairs Director Sheila Stewart was recently the keynote speaker for the National FBI “Women’s History Month” program. Hundreds attended the event. Left to Right: Sheila Stewart and National FBI Director Robert Mueller

(Bethesda, MD)  —  Police say both women were raped and beaten in a brutal attack over the weekend inside the Lululemon Athletica yoga store on Bethesda Row.  It’s the first time that police have acknowledged that 30-year-old Jayna Murray of Arlington was in fact beaten to death.  The “Washington Post” reports police do have forensic evidence […]

(Fairfax, VA)  —  The Fairfax County urban search and rescue team is now in Japan.  Seventy-two people are being directed to hard-hit areas with about 75 tons of equipment as well as six search and rescue dogs.  The team also includes doctors, paramedics, and structural engineers.  They have special cameras and listening devices to find […]

More DC police officers face charges after a weekend burglary sting.  Officer Jennifer Green was arrested Monday and charged with receiving stolen goods.  According to published reports, at least three more officers from the Fourth District were arrested yesterday.  They’re accusing of buying hot items, including iPods and other electronics. Copyright © 2011 Metro Networks […]

Prince George’s County Police are releasing the names of the officers and the victim involved in Monday afternoon’s deadly police-involved shooting in Landover.  They say ten-year veteran Corporal Herbert Aiken, six-year veteran Corporal Dwayne Smith and one-year veteran Officer Timothy Hancock fired at 19-year-old Trayvon Dodson of District Heights, killing the suspect.  Dodson was said […]

This afternoon on the Bernie McCain Show, Dr. Phoenyx will be talking about “The State of Marriage.” Dr. Phoenyx is a physician, writer, and media personality. She’s a woman of many accomplishments and ambitions, but she is most simply a young woman living passionately and truthfully- hoping to empower, encourage, and inspire through her witty, […]

(Washington, DC)  –A Metro customer is suing the transit agency for a 2009 incident involving an elevator at the Forest Glen rail station  .  According to the “Examiner,” Juana Foster is seeking more than 500-thousand dollars from Metro after the elevator she was riding in “suddenly and without warning dropped down violently,” throwing her to […]

(Manassas, VA)  —   The suspected East Coast Rapist remains behind bars on a one-point-five-million-dollars bond. Police say Aaron Thomas raped more than a dozen women along the eastern seaboard over a 12-year period.  Now, police are analyzing Thomas’ DNA to see if he’s connected to more unsolved rape cases.  Police are asking potential victims to take […]