Crime and Courts

A loyal dog that refused to leave his dead owner’s side helped solve the case of her murder by allowing detectives to identify her body, prosecutors said.

D.C. police have found a 1-year-old girl more than a week after she went missing.

A man accused of murder after a 911 call about a fake bear attack in the mountains of Tennessee led authorities to a dead man in October has been found and arrested, police said Sunday, NBC News reported.

A domestic assault report led the St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office to discover a cache of weapons last week, and authorities continue searching for the suspect. Officers responded to the domestic assault report at 9:23 p.m. Thursday in the 2000 block of Goddard Road in Lexington Park. The suspect, 39-year-old Jerod Adam Taylor, left the scene before law enforcement...

A 73-year-old farmer was crossing a road in Fauquier County, Virginia, after going to his mailbox Friday night when he was fatally struck by two drivers. Now his family is pleading for information in the hit-and-run case. For four generations, Garland Heddings’ family has been farming land near Catlett. Heddings devoted his life to raising cattle and baling hay. Married…

Someone smashed the front windows of Char Bar on L Street NW with two large stones early Saturday morning, police said.

A man was killed when two cars hit while he crossed the road to check his mailbox. Northern Virginia Bureau Chief Julie Carey reports neither driver stayed at the scene.

The vandalism of a kosher restaurant in D.C. is not being investigated as a crime of hate or bias by the Metropolitan Police Department. News4’s Mauricio Casillas reports.

Thieves broke into and stole from four businesses, three of which are in the Palisades area of Northwest D.C. News4’s Jessica Albert spoke with a business owner who had to repair her store after the crime.

D.C. police are investigating four back-to-back burglaries that happened over the weekend in Southeast and Northwest. The two suspects moved quickly, getting away with cash, an ATM and a car early Sunday morning. Three of the break-ins happened in less than 10 minutes, the Metropolitan Police Department said. “You say to yourself, ‘What is going on in this world?’” a…

The jury, which has been requested for 26 days, deliberated for 19.5 hours, WTHR said. Allen is expected to be sentenced Dec. 20.

The jury in the trial of an Indiana man charged with murder in the 2017 killings of two teenage girls who vanished during an afternoon hike near their small hometown of Delphi has reached a verdict after days of deliberations.

A 37-year-old Irish man was arrested in connection with the murder of an American woman vacationing in Budapest, local police said.

Will JonBenét Ramsey’s killer finally be brought to justice 28 years after her murder? The upcoming Netflix docuseries “Cold Case: Who Killed JonBenét Ramsey” claims that authorities continue to mishandle the case of the death of the 6-year-old in 1996, including the not-so-subtle blame they placed on the family.

A woman shot to death in Southeast D.C. Thursday afternoon was taking her nephew home from school at the time, according to her mother. Olivia Graves, 24, and her 12-year-old nephew were getting a ride home with Graves’ friends when they made a stop in the area of Atlantic Street and 8th Street. “She was just getting a ride home,…

A woman shot to death in Southeast D.C. Thursday afternoon was taking her nephew home from school at the time, according to her mother. She spoke with News4’s Walter Morris.

Seven teenagers are in custody in Fairfax County, Virginia, suspected in a crime spree that included a gun store burglary. About 2:30 a.m. Sept. 18, a stolen Kia was used to smash into Dominion Defense in Lorton, police said. Teenagers ran into the store and stole 14 guns. “That was a brazen crime committed – tragically, sadly – by teenagers,” Fairfax…

Seven teenagers are in custody after a crime spree that followed a gun store burglary. Northern Virginia Bureau Chief Julie Carey has security camera video that helped police find the suspects.

D.C. police are investigating two shootings that left one man dead and two others injured in two busy Southeast neighborhoods. News4’s Paul Wagner reports a woman was also beaten, and police said investigators are looking into the possibility the shootings are connected.

Iran’s government directed three people to “target our citizens, including President-elect Trump, on U.S. soil and abroad,” the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York alleged.