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By Scott McCabe | 06/04/13 03:30 PM
On this day, June 5, in 1968, presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy was shot in Los Angeles by Sirhan Sirhan. Kennedy died the next day. Kennedy was walking through the kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel after winning the California primary. Sirhan shot at Kennedy three times from close range...
By Scott McCabe | 06/04/13 02:30 PM
A cab driver was killed and two men were captured after a shooting and police chase in Adams Morgan. At about 3:15 a.m. Tuesday, according to D.C. police, officers on patrol heard a gunshot, and saw a taxicab crash around Kalorama and Ontario NW. Two men jumped out of the taxi and fled on...
By Scott McCabe | 06/04/13 12:50 PM
A 29-year-old D.C. man was sentenced to more than three years in prison for robbing a senior citizen in Northwest Washington. Reggie Gordon admitted to accosting a 69-year-old man on the afternoon of Feb. 8 in the area of 14th and Newton streets NW. Gordon pulled a knife and demanded, "Give me...
By Scott McCabe | 06/04/13 12:00 PM
Prince George's County police are searching for a man who they say sexually assaulted a woman in Forestville. Around 1:30 a.m. Friday, the woman was approached by the suspect as she walked inside an apartment building in the 2100 block of Brooks Drive. The suspect grabbed the woman and began...
By Scott McCabe | 06/04/13 10:50 AM
District police are looking for a man who tried to lure three girls into his vehicle. Around 8:15 a.m. Monday, a man driving an older model black Honda pulled up to two girls in the 4900 block of Blaine Street NE, offered them money, and asked them to get into his vehicle. The girls refused,...
By Scott McCabe | 06/03/13 08:55 PM
A divided U.S. Supreme Court on Monday ruled that police may collect DNA samples from people who have been arrested but not convicted of a crime, an opinion that overturns a ruling by Maryland's highest court. "Taking and analyzing a cheek swab of the arrestee DNA is, like fingerprinting and...
By Scott McCabe and Naomi Jagoda | 06/03/13 08:15 PM
Ex-P.G. jail guard sentenced in prisoner's death A former Prince George's County corrections officer was sentenced to two years behind bars for obstruction of justice in the investigation into the 2008 death of a detainee who had been accused of killing a county police officer. Anthony...
By Scott McCabe | 06/03/13 06:00 PM
Young is a site leader for the Remove Invasive Plants program at Long Branch Nature Center in Arlington. He has been managing invasives there for more than 20 years. How did you become a volunteer at Long Branch? I live very close to Long Branch Nature Center, and it is kind of my larger...
By Scott McCabe | 06/03/13 05:20 PM
A 29-year-old man has been accused of exposing himself to a teenage girl at a Silver Spring bus stop. At about 8 p.m. Sunday, a 15-year-old girl was sitting at the Metrobus stop at the corner of University Boulevard West and Colesville Road in the Four Corners area when she noticed a man...
By Scott McCabe | 06/03/13 04:30 PM
A contractor was sentenced to more than two years in prison and ordered to pay restitution to a 93-year-old District woman he tricked into paying more than $170,000 in home improvements that were not performed. James F. Butler, 52, pleaded guilty in November in D.C. Superior Court to a charge...
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By Michael Barone | 06/17/13
Today, speaking at the Brandenburg Gate, President Obama paid appropriate tribute to the brave East Germans who rebelled 60 years ago against Communist dictatorship:
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