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A person was killed in a crash that closed southbound Interstate 95 in Laurel, Maryland, Thursday afternoon, Howard County police said.

A former Prince George’s County corrections officer has pleaded guilty to attempted murder in a brutal attack on his wife.

Arlington County, Virginia, police officers shot and injured a driver who struck them during an attempted traffic stop, police say.

A corrections officer in Maryland has been arrested after police say he admitted to binding his wife in the basement of their home and torturing her for hours.

A man found shot along I-295 in Bladensburg, Maryland, has died, police say. News4’s Shomari Stone reports.

A man set a pregnant woman on fire inside the woman’s apartment in Capitol Heights, Maryland, police say. News4’s Shomari Stone reports.

Police in Prince George’s County say the extension of officers’ shifts to 12 hours is working. “Take 10 days and look at 10 days of 12-hour shifts. We can point to a 20 percent drop in violent crime. We can point to 90 guns being taken off the streets,” department spokeswoman Jennifer Donelan said. News4’s Tracee Wilkins reports.

Police in Bakersfield, Calif. arrested a black teenager after she was mistaken by officers for a 30-year-old black man they were looking for, according to police reports and the teen’s account. In a video posted to Facebook, Tatyana Hargrove says an officer punched and then pinned her down as a police dog bit her leg just moments after she insisted...

A man was found dead in his Fort Washington, Maryland, home with trauma to his body. Police do not think the incident was a random act and have arrested a relative in connection to the suspected murder.

A graduate student at UCLA shot and killed an engineering professor before taking his own life Wednesday in a murder-suicide that led to a lockdown and campus-wide search involving hundreds of officers, multiple law enforcement sources said.

Ruby Evans witnessed a van hit a police car in Jackson, Mississippi, on Monday, sending the cruiser careening into a utility pole and injuring the officer — but it’s Evans’ on-camera reaction to the crash that’s getting all the attention.