Garden Hose Stops Porch Blaze From Spreading With Seven Inside Maryland Home: Fire Marshal Garden Hose Stops Porch Blaze From Spreading With Seven Inside Maryland Home: Fire Marshal
Garden Hose Stops Porch Blaze From Spreading With Seven Inside Maryland Home: Fire Marshal A garden hose may have kept an incendiary fire in Maryland from becoming something much worse. Shortly before midnight on Friday, Sept. 11, an occupant of a home on the 4900 block of Morraine Street in Waldorf spotted flames on the rear deck and extinguished the fire with a garden hose, according to the Office of the State Fire Marshal. Seven people were inside at the time. The fire wasn't reported until the following morning, when Deputy State Fire Marshals were called to investigate and determined it had been intentionally set. Damage was limited to approximately $1,500, and no injuries…
Cellphone Clue, License Plate Readers Led Virginia Detectives To Ex-CEO At Reagan Airport: PD Cellphone Clue, License Plate Readers Led Virginia Detectives To Ex-CEO At Reagan Airport: PD
Cellphone Clue, License Plate Readers Led Virginia Detectives To Ex-ceo At Reagan Airport: PD A cellphone and license plate readers helped Virginia detectives put a name to the man accused of secretly filming teen girls. Fairfax County Police revealed new details on Wednesday, Sept. 16, about how investigators tracked down Shawn Gremminger, 44, of Falls Church, before arresting him at Reagan National Airport on child pornography and unlawful filming charges. The investigation began on Aug. 16 and 17, when officers responded to reports that a man had unlawfully recorded three victims while they visited stores in the Tysons area. Two were 18-year-old women. The third was a 16-year-ol…
DC-Area Coach Mourned After Restaurant Confrontation Turns Deadly In Maryland DC-Area Coach Mourned After Restaurant Confrontation Turns Deadly In Maryland
Dc-area Coach Mourned After Restaurant Confrontation Turns Deadly In Maryland To his family, Nicholas Franklin Njuki was a beloved son and brother. To others, he was Coach Nick. The 33-year-old Gaithersburg man was shot and killed early Sunday, Sept. 13 following a confrontation that began inside Quincy’s on Seven Locks Road in Rockville, according to Montgomery County Police. Now, as detectives search for his killer, Njuki’s family and friends are making sure he is remembered for everything that came before that night. A son. A brother. A friend. A coach. A mentor. “Nicholas was a cherished son, brother, family member, friend, coach, and mentor whose life tou…
‘Snuff Film’ Mystery: 1M Images, 5 Women Who Appear Dead, Philly Police Say ‘Snuff Film’ Mystery: 1M Images, 5 Women Who Appear Dead, Philly Police Say
‘Snuff Film’ Mystery: 1M Images, 5 Women Who Appear Dead, Philly Police Say More than 1 million images are under review in a sprawling Philadelphia investigation involving possible snuff films and five women who appear to be dead, police announced on Wednesday, Sept. 16. Investigators have identified four of the five women depicted, but still cannot determine whether the recordings show actual homicides, pornography, or staged “art films” involving fake blood, according to police. No remains belonging to any of the women have been recovered. The investigation centers on 44-year-old Eugene Horsch and 417 West Chew Avenue in the city’s Olney section, where detective…
Fed Hikes Interest Rates For First Time Since 2023: Here's Why Fed Hikes Interest Rates For First Time Since 2023: Here's Why
Fed Hikes Interest Rates For First Time Since 2023: Here's Why The Federal Reserve raised its key interest rate for the first time in more than three years as inflation remains high and soaring energy prices put more pressure on Americans. The central bank's Federal Open Market Committee raised its benchmark rate by a quarter percentage point to a range of 3.75% to 4% on Wednesday, Sept. 16. The unanimous 12-0 vote marked the Fed's first rate hike since July 2023 and followed a period of unchanged rates throughout 2026. Rate hikes are intended to slow inflation by making borrowing more expensive. Higher rates can increase costs tied to mortgages, car l…
Patrick Clancy To Address Children’s Deaths, Ex-Wife’s Mistrial On ‘60 Minutes’ Patrick Clancy To Address Children’s Deaths, Ex-Wife’s Mistrial On ‘60 Minutes’
Patrick Clancy To Address Children’s Deaths, Ex-Wife’s Mistrial On ‘60 Minutes’ Patrick Clancy will speak publicly about the killing of his three young children and the online claims that linked him to their deaths. He will speak with  CBS Correspondent Ross Douthat on "60 Minutes" Sunday, Sept. 20, on “60 Minutes.“ Clancy was formerly married to Connecticut native Lindsay Clancy. Prosecutors accuse her of strangling their children inside their Duxbury, Massachusetts, home on Jan. 24, 2023. It's an accusation she hasn't denied, but her defense claims she was suffering from postpartum psychosis.  Cora was 5. Dawson was 3. Callan was 8 months ol…
Virginia Man Flushed Cocaine During Standoff, But Couldn't Hide Kilo Of Crystal Meth: Feds Virginia Man Flushed Cocaine During Standoff, But Couldn't Hide Kilo Of Crystal Meth: Feds
Virginia Man Flushed Cocaine During Standoff, But Couldn't Hide Kilo Of Crystal Meth: Feds Someone was breaking bad in Virginia. More than a kilogram of crystal methamphetamine, pounds of marijuana, cocaine, and multiple guns were among the haul investigators tied to Alonzo Lee Bonner Jr. during searches in Dinwiddie and Petersburg, federal prosecutors said. Nearly three years later, the 39-year-old Petersburg man is heading to federal prison for more than two decades. Bonner was sentenced on Tuesday, Sept. 15, to 21 years and 10 months behind bars for federal drug and firearms crimes, according to the US Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Virginia. The case dates ba…
Marine, Police Officer, Dad Of 2 Should Have Failed ICE Vetting Before Suicide: Report Marine, Police Officer, Dad Of 2 Should Have Failed ICE Vetting Before Suicide: Report
Marine, Police Officer, Dad Of 2 Should Have Failed ICE Vetting Before Suicide: Report Problems investigators found in a Marine reservist’s past should have kept ICE from hiring him, former officials told The Washington Post after his death outside the agency’s Philadelphia field office. Joseph “Joe” Thomas Moore, 38, a father of two, died outside the office on Friday, Aug. 28, after learning he would lose his job, the newspaper reported. Moore died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the neck, and his death was ruled a suicide, Philadelphia Department of Public Health spokesperson Jason Brooks told Daily Voice on behalf of the Medical Examiner’s Office. His family has di…
Case Against 3-Time Deportee Released In Virginia Gets Even More Disturbing: Feds Case Against 3-Time Deportee Released In Virginia Gets Even More Disturbing: Feds
Case Against 3-Time Deportee Released In Virginia Gets Even More Disturbing: Feds The case against Roni Mendez Escobar got uglier. The 33-year-old Guatemalan national was sentenced in Virginia on Wednesday, Sept. 16, to six years and five months in federal prison after investigators found 46 images and 65 videos of child sexual abuse material on his electronic devices. But prosecutors say Mendez Escobar wasn't just collecting it. He used WhatsApp to distribute child sexual abuse material, encourage others to consume it, and chat and video-call young girls, according to federal court documents. Some of the material depicted the sexual abuse and exploitation of prepubesc…
Caroll Spriggs II Makes History As Maryland's First African American State Fire Marshal Caroll Spriggs II Makes History As Maryland's First African American State Fire Marshal
Caroll Spriggs II Makes History As Maryland's First African American State Fire Marshal Maryland has its first African American State Fire Marshal in the department's 132-year history. Caroll H. Spriggs II, 53, was appointed to a six-year term leading the Office of the State Fire Marshal, Maryland State Police announced on Wednesday, Sept. 16. Spriggs takes over the nation's oldest state fire marshal's office after a career that has included leadership roles in Prince George's County and Annapolis, along with work involving federal explosives investigations. Before his appointment, Spriggs served as a deputy fire chief with the Prince George's County Fire and Emergency Medica…
Maryland Woman Killed After Driver Blows Through Stop Sign In Delaware: Police Maryland Woman Killed After Driver Blows Through Stop Sign In Delaware: Police
Maryland Woman Killed After Driver Blows Through Stop Sign In Delaware: Police A Maryland woman was killed after another driver failed to stop at a stop sign and crashed into her SUV in Delaware, police said. The 54-year-old Mardela Springs woman was driving south on Old Stage Road in Laurel at around 5:50 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 15, when the crash happened at Salt Barn Road, according to Delaware State Police. Investigators say a 32-year-old Laurel man driving a Ford Maverick was heading west on Salt Barn Road when he failed to stop at the stop sign. The Ford struck the driver's side of the woman's Honda HR-V, police said. She was taken to an area hospital, where sh…
Virginia Teen Wakes Up, Talks To Family After High School Altercation Lands Him In ICU Virginia Teen Wakes Up, Talks To Family After High School Altercation Lands Him In ICU
Virginia Teen Wakes Up, Talks To Family After High School Altercation Lands Him In ICU Irvin Rodriguez Gaitan is awake, but the Virginia high schooler is still facing a long battle after a violent fight, his family says. An altercation at Meadowbrook High School led to Rodriguez Gaitan being hospitalized with serious injuries in the ICU, leaving his loved ones "praying for his recovery."  "This situation has affected our family very badly," Rodriguez Gaitan's brother, Kevin Rodriguez, wrote this week. "We are doing everything we can to stay close to him and support him through this, while also trying to carry the weight of everything this emergency has brought into …