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A Maryland school resource officer was found dead after his vehicle ran off Indian Head Highway in Accokeek, Maryland, and another officer was struck and injured early Friday while at the scene.

Authorities say a 17-year-old male was found dead in an off-campus house at Penn State and a fraternity has been suspended.

A man was charged with murder after a woman was found dead inside a townhouse in Germantown, Maryland, Monday night, police say.

A man faces murder charges after a woman was found dead inside a townhouse in Germantown, Maryland. News4’s Darcy Spencer reports.

A 19-year-old Delaware day care worker is accused of suffocating a 4-month-old girl under her care because the child would not stop crying.

A 16-year-old boy found dead in an abandoned apartment in Southwest D.C. on Friday had been reported missing earlier this month, then found Wednesday.

A D.C. teen reported missing earlier this month and found on Wednesday was killed overnight. Shomari Stone reports.

Authorities found the body of a woman who fell into water after her kayak overturned off the coast of Annapolis, Maryland, Saturday afternoon.

An Arkansas woman was arrested in connection to the death of former state Sen. Linda Collins-Smith, who was found dead outside her home last week. Rebecca Lynn O’Donnell, 48, was taken into custody Friday, Arkansas State Police said. Criminal charges are pending, NBC News reports. Ken Yang, Collins-Smith’s former press secretary, told NBC News that O’Donnell and Collins-Smith were friends...

Police officers responding to a shooting report in Annapolis on Friday found a man dead in a crashed car.

Three young brothers from Maryland are being recognized for their entrepreneurial success with their candle company. Shomari Stone reports.

The Georgia Bureau of Investigations is investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of a 2-year-old girl found dead in Waycross over the weekend.

Prosecutors are expected to request that a man accused of killing a Virginia store manager undergo a new mental health evaluation following a mistrial.

A man was discovered dead Saturday in Burke, Virginia, after Fairfax County Police said he drowned in Lake Braddock while trying to save his dog.

Fairfax County Police say a man was found dead in Lake Braddock after drowning while trying to save a dog. News4’s Darcy Spencer reports.

A judge has declared a mistrial in the case of a man who claims he killed a Virginia store manager because he thought the victim was a werewolf.

Testimony is set to begin Tuesday in the murder trial of a man whose attorneys say killed a Virginia store manager last summer during a psychotic episode in which he believed the victim was a werewolf.

The defense attorneys for a man accused of stabbing and beating a store manager in Old Town Alexandria last summer say the defendant was in a psychotic state and thought the victim was a werewolf.

A convicted child abuser faces a murder charge in the death of a girl whose body was found in a duffel bag on a trail east of Los Angeles.

Authorities seized thousands of pounds of cocaine worth nearly $80 million in a monster bust at the Port of New York/Newark last month, the biggest such seizure at the port in the 21st century, customs officials said Monday.