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Charles Jones, co-founder of the award-winning Capital City Mambo Sauce with his wife Arsha passed away. According to Arsha Jones, Charles was with his high-school-aged son on a campus tour of Georgia State University when he had a heart attack. The Joneses started the Mambo Sauce business out of their Annapolis home in May 2011, selling […]
https://www.facebook.com/wjlatv/videos/1185423925178795/ According to reports, an officer was shot near a parking garage in Downtown Silver Spring, Maryland. Montgomery County Police say the shooting occurred in the area of Ellsworth Drive and Fenton Street. https://twitter.com/mcfrsPIO/status/1183735198279720960 The officer was airlifted to Shock Trauma in Baltimore https://twitter.com/mcfrsPIO/status/1183730299798245376 WOL will have more information as it comes
An Anne Arundel County man is behind bars after he allegedly broke into the hotel room of a sleeping man and sexually assaulted him. Olman Danilo Lopez-Lopez has been arrested and charged with offenses including second-degree rape. Police said they responded to the report of a sex assault at the La Quinta Inn in Glen […]
The District and surrounding areas have voted to replace Columbus Day for Indigenous People’s Day. Councilmember David Grosso (I-At Large) proposed the emergency legislation last Tuesday to rename the holiday. https://twitter.com/cmdgrosso/status/1181626208028647434 Prince George’s County and Alexandria have both made similar moves to replace the holiday which became a federal day in the 1930s. Columbus Day, […]
Apparently, Kanye West wasn’t cancelled enough to miss Howard Homecoming. Students were greeted with a Saturday morning (Oct. 12) edition of Yeezy’s Sunday Service at Howard University, and the reactions were mixed, to say the least. https://twitter.com/KatieKyros/status/1183060423345692672 One the one hand, you got diehard fans who feel Yeezy can do no wrong and were all […]
A 2-year-old boy was shot in the stomach after an early morning road rage incident in West Baltimore. According to WJZ, City Police responded to the 600 block of W. Franklin Street around for a Shot Spotter alert at 12:43 a.m. Saturday. When officers arrived they couldn’t find a victim or suspect. Officers were […]
The 14-year-old has remained unidentified.
Earlier this week, a Philadelphia jury awarded $8 billion in punitive damages against Johnson & Johnson and one if its subsidiaries over a drug the companies made that the plaintiff’s attorneys say is linked to the abnormal growth of female breast tissue in boys. Nicholas Murray, of Maryland, was prescribed Risperdal as a child. He said […]
Reality Star Kim Kardashian has worked again to help a prisoner get their release from jail. 30-Year-old Momolu Stewart was convicted of murder in 1999 after being tried as an adult at age 16. 23 years later with the help of Kardashian, he is a free man. In August, Kardashian wrote a letter to DC […]
Six people were hurt over the weekend at a Frederick County wedding after a possibly overloaded foot bridge collapsed, dropping pedestrians into a stream about eight feet below. Frederick County Fire Battalion Chief Dan Healy said the cable-and-wood bridge was on private property and appeared to have “too many people on it.” One person was hospitalized […]
The owners of Pimlico and city officials have reached an agreement to keep Preakness Stakes in Baltimore. Mayor Young announced the deal with The Stronach Group on Saturday. The agreement must be approved by the General Assembly during its next session. Under the plan, Stronach Group would build a new clubhouse at Pimlico Race Course […]
University of Maryland students and faculty say they are finding mold in their classrooms. A faculty member took photos showing splotches of green on furniture and spores growing on books in Woods Hall. Professors who teach in that building are blaming it on humidity issues. The university’s facilities management department issued a statement acknowledging the […]
