Matt Delaney

Juvenile crime in Baltimore lower than pre-pandemic levels: Study

Juvenile crime in Baltimore is well below where it was almost a decade ago, according to a report released this week, cutting against city leaders who say criminal youths are an urgent threat to public safety.

December 23, 2025

U.S. counterterrorism agents in Mexico help arrest cartel member wanted in Texas slaying

U.S. counterterrorism officials said they helped arrest a Jalisco New Generation Cartel affiliate in Mexico who had a hand in the syndicate's drug and human trafficking operations and is also accused of gunning down a Texas teenager.

December 22, 2025

Outgoing D.C. police Chief Pamela A. Smith: ‘F you to my haters’

Metropolitan Police Chief Pamela A. Smith said "F you" to her critics during her farewell address, as the District's top cop exits at the end of the month amid allegations she fudged crime statistics.

December 21, 2025

Maryland officials approve replacing Chesapeake Bay Bridge

The Maryland Transportation Authority Board on Thursday approved a plan to rebuild the Chesapeake Bay Bridge from the ground up.

December 18, 2025

D.C. Mayor Bowser names Chief Jeffery Carroll as interim leader of Metropolitan Police Department

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser named Executive Assistant Chief Jeffery Carroll on Wednesday as the interim leader of the Metropolitan Police Department, ahead of Chief Pamela A. Smith's resignation at the end of the month.

December 17, 2025

Commission to study reparations in Maryland approved in General Assembly’s veto override

Maryland's Democrat-led General Assembly has authorized a commission to study providing reparations for slavery, overriding Gov. Wes Moore's veto of the proposal during Tuesday's special session.

December 17, 2025

D.C. Mayor Bowser skewers House for alleging police chief pressured staff to alter crime data

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser is blasting the House Oversight Committee for its "biased" report accusing Metropolitan Police Chief Pamela A. Smith of pressuring subordinates to fudge the city's crime statistics.

December 16, 2025

Kenyan McDuffie to resign from D.C. Council, setting up potential bid for mayor

D.C. Council member Kenyan McDuffie announced Tuesday that he is resigning next month, fueling speculation he could be eyeing a run for mayor in 2026.

December 16, 2025

Federal agents disrupt bomb plot linked to pro-Palestinian radicals

Federal authorities on Monday said they foiled a planned New Year's Eve bombing in Los Angeles that was schemed up by members of a pro-Palestinian extremist group.

December 15, 2025

Manhunt resumes after Rhode Island police release person of interest in Brown University shooting

Authorities in Providence, Rhode Island, resumed their search on Monday for the gunman who carried out the deadly weekend shooting at Brown University after a person of interest in the case was released from police custody.

December 15, 2025

D.C. police chief bullied staff, threatened demotions in order to manipulate crime data, report says

House Republicans on Sunday released a report skewering Metropolitan Police Chief Pamela Smith for bullying her command staff and threatening them with demotions so they would manipulate crime data to make the District appear safer than it is.

December 14, 2025

Person of interest in custody after shooting at Brown University kills two and wounds nine others

Rhode Island authorities said Sunday that police had detained a person of interest in Saturday's mass shooting at Brown University that left two people dead and several others wounded.

December 14, 2025

New Jerseyan cheered for trying to save neighbor from fire now charged with her murder

A New Jersey man originally hailed as a hero for trying to pull his elderly neighbor from a house fire has been accused of starting the blaze that killed the woman.

December 11, 2025

Illegal immigrant pleads guilty to killing Maryland woman during Loudoun County carjacking

An illegal immigrant from El Salvador on Thursday pleaded guilty to murder in the 2024 carjacking of a woman in Loudoun County in which he ran over the victim with her own vehicle.

December 11, 2025

House bill would rename D.C.’s ‘Black Lives Matter Plaza’ after Charlie Kirk

Rep. Nancy Mace introduced a bill to rename the former "Black Lives Matter Plaza" just north of the White House after assassinated conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

December 11, 2025

Montgomery County judge rules Catherine Hoggle competent to stand trial in 2014 deaths of her kids

A Montgomery County judge ruled Wednesday that Catherine Hoggle is competent to stand trial for murder in the 2014 disappearance of her two children.

December 10, 2025

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore calls special session to elect new House speaker

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore has called for a special session next week to pick a replacement for outgoing House Speaker Adrienne Jones.

December 10, 2025

D.C. police Chief Pamela Smith stepping down, mayor says

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser said Monday that Chief Pamela A. Smith is resigning from the Metropolitan Police Department, more than two years after leading the force through a generational crime wave that terrorized residents and prompted scrutiny from Capitol Hill.

December 8, 2025

Illegal immigrant charged in Charlotte light rail stabbing had been deported twice, DHS says

Federal officials say an illegal immigrant accused of stabbing another man on the light rail system in Charlotte, North Carolina, had been deported twice before the attack.

December 7, 2025

Suspect arrested for gunning down man at MGM National Harbor

Prince George's County police on Thursday said they arrested and charged a man in the deadly shooting that erupted at the MGM National Harbor Resort & Casino a day earlier.

December 4, 2025