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Bomb Threat Shuts Down Main Street Area In Virginia Town (DEVELOPING) Bomb Threat Shuts Down Main Street Area In Virginia Town (DEVELOPING)
Bomb Threat Shuts Down Main Street Area In Virginia Town (Developing) 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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by Zak Failla
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WATCH: Bodycam Shows Final Moments Before Maryland Man Dies In Police Custody WATCH: Bodycam Shows Final Moments Before Maryland Man Dies In Police Custody
Watch: 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. Maryland OAG Independent Investigations Division I…

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Maryland Murder Fugitive's Run Ends Years After Cross-Country Escape To California Maryland Murder Fugitive's Run Ends Years After Cross-Country Escape To California
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 Young Mom Says She's 'Ready To FIGHT' After Life-Changing Cancer Diagnosis
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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by Zak Failla
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Teen's Hair Slashed During Attack On Elementary School Basketball Court In Virginia: Police Teen's Hair Slashed During Attack On Elementary School Basketball Court In Virginia: Police
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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by Zak Failla
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Maryland Drug Bust Reveals One Tiny Detail That Triggered Machine Gun Charges, Sheriff Says Maryland Drug Bust Reveals One Tiny Detail That Triggered Machine Gun Charges, Sheriff Says
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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Search Intensifies For American Woman Who Went Missing During Beach Trip In Caribbean: Update Search Intensifies For American Woman Who Went Missing During Beach Trip In Caribbean: Update
Search Intensifies For American Woman Who Went Missing During Beach Trip In Caribbean: Update A trip to one of the Caribbean’s most celebrated shorelines has turned into a mystery with a family desperate for answers. Elizabeth “Liz” Waddell, 44, of Cary, North Carolina, was last seen at Grand Anse Beach in St. George’s, Grenada, on Wednesday, July 22, according to the Royal Grenada Police Force. Police issued the missing-person alert on Thursday, July 23. The alert describes Waddell as 5 feet 5 inches tall, with a medium build and short blonde hair. It identifies her as a US citizen residing in the Grand Anse area during her stay. Authorities asked anyone who has seen Waddell or k…

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by Joe Lombardi
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Car Thieves Thwarted By Technology After Theft Spree Near VA Border, Police Say Car Thieves Thwarted By Technology After Theft Spree Near VA Border, Police Say
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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by Zak Failla
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66 Chickens, Including 60 Baby Chicks, Rescued After Household Kitchen Fire 66 Chickens, Including 60 Baby Chicks, Rescued After Household Kitchen Fire
66 Chickens, Including 60 Baby Chicks, Rescued After Household Kitchen Fire Sixty-six neglected chickens—including 60 baby chicks—were rescued after a house fire led first responders to a backyard where the birds were being kept in what rescuers described as torturous conditions, authorities and an animal rescue organization said. Officers responded to a kitchen fire at 67 Mist Lane in Westbury, New York, around 10 a.m. Tuesday, July 28, where they found an active fire inside the home, according to Nassau County police. The East Meadow Fire Department extinguished the flames, and no injuries were reported. While investigating the fire, officers discovered several …

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by Jillian Pikora
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911 Call, Doorbell Video Released After Eric Bieniemy's Son Shoots Mother In Virginia 911 Call, Doorbell Video Released After Eric Bieniemy's Son Shoots Mother In Virginia
911 Call, Doorbell Video Released After Eric Bieniemy's Son Shoots Mother In Virginia New details are emerging after the son of NFL coach Eric Bieniemy shot his mother in Northern Virginia. Mia Bieniemy, 57, was allegedly shot by their 27-year-old son, Elijah Zion Bieniemy, in the 20000 block of Northpark Drive in Ashburn during a weekend altercation, according to the Loudoun County Sheriff's Office. Mia Bieniemy was taken to an area hospital for treatment and evaluation of her injuries. Her son is now charged with malicious wounding and other weapons offenses. In the days following the shocking shooting, the dispatch call has been released by Good Morning Am…

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Married DC National Guard Major From Virginia Built Double Life With Fake Divorce, Feds Say Married DC National Guard Major From Virginia Built Double Life With Fake Divorce, Feds Say
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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by Zak Failla
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Cup Tossed, Gun Drawn: Woman Wanted After Wild Virginia Bar Fight Escalates (DEVELOPING) Cup Tossed, Gun Drawn: Woman Wanted After Wild Virginia Bar Fight Escalates (DEVELOPING)
Cup Tossed, Gun Drawn: Woman Wanted After Wild Virginia Bar Fight Escalates (Developing) 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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