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Slow police response times could temporarily stop new development in southern Prince George’s County, Maryland, according to a memorandum from the county’s planning department.

Three brothers were sentenced Thursday in connection with the death of Prince George’s County police Detective Jacai Colson. Prince George’s County Bureau Chief Tracee Wilkins reports on the long and emotional hearing.

A man convicted in the attack on a Maryland police station in which an undercover narcotics detective was mistakenly shot and killed was sentenced to 195 years, but the slain detective’s family is lashing out, saying the officer who shot the detective should be in prison as well.

A 21-year-old man from Springfield, Virginia, is accused of soliciting sex from a minor after police say he offered to trade sexually explicit images of children.

Authorities are searching for a man they say exposed himself at a Popeyes in Clinton, Maryland, and then assaulted a woman on a Metro train.

A man who worked as a substitute teacher and teacher’s assistant at two Virginia elementary schools has been sentenced to more than 12 years in prison for trying to entice a child to engage in illegal sexual conduct

A man was struck and killed by a hit-and-run driver in Maryland about two hours after his release from jail Thursday evening.

A tow truck driver in Maryland was struck and killed Wednesday in a hit-and-run, police say.

Protesters gathered outside the Prince George’s County Police Department headquarters Saturday. They expressed outrage and demanded “accountability” after a 24-year-old Demonte Ward-Blake was partially paralyzed during an arrest.

A Prince George’s County police officer was sentenced to six months in jail Friday for repeatedly punching a man in the face as he was restrained in handcuffs and a seat belt last year.

The Prince George’s County chapter of the NAACP is calling for an independent investigation after a man was left partially paralyzed during a traffic stop. The NAACP is pushing back after viewing police dash-cam video that recorded part of the incident. News4’s Tracee Wilkins reports.

A Maryland man was sentenced to 17 years for invading an 80-year-old woman’s Potomac condo and robbing her at knifepoint.

A 12-year-old girl who accused three sixth-grade boys of pinning her down and cutting her dreadlocks has admitted to school officials she was not attacked and cut her own hair, her family’s attorney said.

Three sixth-grade boys at a Christian school in Northern Virginia pinned down a black classmate and cut off some of her dreadlocks while telling her her hair was “nappy” and “ugly,” she told News4.

Prince George’s County police say they are investigating an officer-involved shooting in Hyattsville.

A 16-year-old boy who has autism has been found after going missing in Chillum, Maryland.

A pedestrian was airlifted to a hospital Tuesday after he was hit by an off-duty Prince George’s County police officer at Indian Head Highway. News4’s Tracee Wilkins reports.

Prince George’s County police say a man was only wearing underwear and socks and was acting erratically when officers found him outside a house in Bowie, Maryland. He died a short time later in police custody.

Police shot and wounded a man in Woodbridge Thursday morning after he advanced toward officers with a knife, ignoring commands to stop, authorities say.