Maryland Basketball Standout Daniyah Ford, 17, Gunned Down In DC: 'Promising Future' Maryland Basketball Standout Daniyah Ford, 17, Gunned Down In DC: 'Promising Future' Maryland Basketball Standout Daniyah Ford, 17, Gunned Down In DC: 'Promising Future'
Maryland Basketball Standout Daniyah Ford, 17, Gunned Down In DC: 'Promising Future' Daniyah Ford was always ready to get in the game. The 17-year-old Hyattsville girl and Coolidge High School basketball player was remembered for her energy and toughness after she was gunned down in Northwest DC on Saturday, Oct. 3, leaving her Maryland family and basketball community mourning a teenager they say had a promising future. “Coach D, I’m ready today put me in ok,” Ford would tell her coach, according to a tribute shared by the DC Lady Colts basketball program after her death. It was the kind of line that captured the teenager teammates and coaches knew. “We will miss your …

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Neighbors Return The Favor As Beloved FedEx Driver Faces Stem Cell Transplant: 'Still Here' Neighbors Return The Favor As Beloved FedEx Driver Faces Stem Cell Transplant: 'Still Here' Neighbors Return The Favor As Beloved FedEx Driver Faces Stem Cell Transplant: 'Still Here'
Neighbors Return The Favor As Beloved FedEx Driver Faces Stem Cell Transplant: 'Still Here' For years, Joe Miles kept showing up at their doors. Now, his DC neighborhood is showing up for him. Miles, a longtime FedEx driver who became a familiar face around Kalorama over more than a decade, has been off his route since January while facing another battle with cancer, according to a fundraiser launched on his behalf. This time, it is multiple myeloma. Miles previously battled kidney and bladder cancer before being diagnosed with the blood cancer, organizer Kristen Lund said. His treatment has already been grueling. Miles is undergoing his fifth cycle of chemotherapy at …
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Cop Charged With DUI In Maryland Gets Probation For Assaulting Girlfriend In Pennsylvania A Harrisburg police officer who accepted legal responsibility for assaulting his girlfriend after dragging her off a couch and into a coffee table has been sentenced to two years of probation, court records show. Lee Richard Brown, 41, of Mount Wolf, was sentenced by York County Judge Clyde W. Vedder following his no-contest plea to second-degree misdemeanor simple assault, according to court documents obtained by Daily Voice on Monday, Oct. 5. Brown entered the plea on July 27, and his case is now listed as closed with a sentence imposed.  Brown, who remains on unpaid leave from the H…
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Montgomery County Native Kevin Saunders' Leukemia Returns After He Fought Back To Acting Kevin Saunders had fought his way back to the camera. The Montgomery County native and Maryland actor reached remission after a battle with leukemia that began last year, rebuilt his strength, and returned to the career he had spent more than a decade pursuing. Then, while filming a commercial, Saunders learned the cancer had returned. “With heavy hearts, we share that Kevin’s leukemia has returned,” his family wrote in a new fundraiser launched as he begins another round of treatment. Saunders is back in the hospital, where chemotherapy has begun and doctors are preparing him for a bone …
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'Fat Goat' Kidnapping Ended With 2 Dead, Mercedes In Flames In Maryland: Feds The night started with a birthday celebration. It ended with two men dead. A DC man known as “Fat Goat” was sentenced to five years in federal prison on Monday, Oct. 5, for his role in a kidnapping that spiraled from the District into Maryland before ending in a deadly shootout, federal prosecutors announced. Melvin Green, 27, served as a lookout and later took possession of a gun as his associates kidnapped two men on F Street SE in June 2023, according to court documents. Glock pistol recovered from search of Green’s residence.  US Attorney's Office Green, whose nickname is …

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Trump's Baltimore County Visit Could Snarl Tuesday Commute For Maryland Riders, MTA Warns Maryland commuters could face delays and detours on Tuesday as President Donald Trump heads to Baltimore County. The Maryland Transit Administration issued a service advisory on Monday, Oct. 5, warning riders on Commuter Bus Route 411T to prepare for increased security and traffic around Tradepoint Atlantic during Trump's visit. Customers could see delays and possible route diversions throughout Tuesday, Oct. 6, according to the agency. The 411T connects Tradepoint Atlantic in Sparrows Point with Essex, Golden Ring and White Marsh. MTA encouraged riders to allow extra travel time and chec…

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Three Amish Measles Victims ID’d; Here's Why They Weren’t Vaccinated Three Amish Lancaster County residents who died during Pennsylvania’s measles outbreak have been identified, and none was unvaccinated because of their religious beliefs. The victims — Ivan S. Miller, Mary S. Stoltzfus, and Katie L. Lapp — were two infants too young to receive the measles vaccine and a 20-year-old woman whose leukemia treatment left her unable to get it. Their obituaries were published by Shivery Family Funeral Homes. Lapp was the unvaccinated Lancaster County resident whose death was announced by the Pennsylvania Department of Health on Wednesday, Sept. 30, as the state’s…

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Headlights May Go Dark In Ford's Latest Recall: What To Know More than 41,000 Ford SUVs and trucks are being recalled because a headlight problem can cause several exterior lights to dim or stop working. Ford Motor Company issued the recall for 41,748 vehicles, according to a National Highway Traffic Safety Administration report filed on Tuesday, Sept. 22. The affected vehicles include certain 2025 through 2027 Expedition SUVs and F-Series Super Duty trucks. The headlight assemblies may contain LED chips that were contaminated at a supplier's manufacturing facility. Depending on the vehicle and headlight type, the problem can caus…

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Headlights May Go Dark In Ford's Latest Recall: What To Know Headlights May Go Dark In Ford's Latest Recall: What To Know Headlights May Go Dark In Ford's Latest Recall: What To Know
Headlights May Go Dark In Ford's Latest Recall: What To Know More than 41,000 Ford SUVs and trucks are being recalled because a headlight problem can cause several exterior lights to dim or stop working. Ford Motor Company issued the recall for 41,748 vehicles, according to a National Highway Traffic Safety Administration report filed on Tuesday, Sept. 22. The affected vehicles include certain 2025 through 2027 Expedition SUVs and F-Series Super Duty trucks. The headlight assemblies may contain LED chips that were contaminated at a supplier's manufacturing facility. Depending on the vehicle and headlight type, the problem can caus…

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IDs Released For 6 Presumed Dead After Plane Crash In Atlantic The desperate search for a missing medical flight has ended with a devastating update for six families. Authorities released the identities Monday, Oct. 5, of the six people presumed dead after a Gulfstream G100 air ambulance crashed in the Atlantic Ocean off Nantucket, Massachusetts. The US Coast Guard suspended its active search Sunday, Oct. 4, after crews searched for 66 hours across more than 4,400 square miles of water. The agency found a debris field confirmed to be from the aircraft and shifted to a recovery operation.  The people aboard were identified by the Coast Guard as Ca…