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Crime, Maryland, Local
Prince George's police identify suspected car thief
Published: Sat, May 25, 2013
Prince George's County Police on Saturday have identified the second of two suspects in an armed carjacking that occured earlier this week. Police believe 20-year-old Christopher DeWayne Barnes,...
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Crime, Maryland, DC, Local
The Blotter: DC shooting, carjacking suspect identified,fatal motorcycle crash
Published: Sat, May 25, 2013
Police identify car thief Prince George's County Police on Saturday have identified the second of two suspects in an armed carjacking earlier this week. Police believe 20-year-old Christopher...
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Maryland, Local
Developer faces uphill battle luring FBI to Westphalia
Published: Sat, May 25, 2013
While many Prince George's County officials have thrown their weight behind Greenbelt as a landing place for the new FBI headquarters, a massive Canadian developer is looking to change their...
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Maryland, Local
Carroll County passes resolution opposing gun law, will use discretion in enforcement
Published: Sat, May 25, 2013
Carroll County officials have taken a stand against Maryland's tough new gun law, voting to support law enforcement officials who use discretion in choosing when to enforce it. The Board of...
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Maryland, Local
Montgomery County smoking ban goes into effect Monday
Published: Sat, May 25, 2013
Anyone looking to take a smoke break in any of Montgomery County's parks or bus hangers, or outside county courthouses, might want to think again, as the county's more widespread smoking ban goes...
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Montgomery County, Crime, Maryland
Man arrested in Gaithersburg hatchet slaying
Yesterday
A 20-year-old man was taken into custody after using a hatchet to kill another man in Gaithersburg, police said. Claude Alexander Allen III was charged with first-degree murder in the slaying of...
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Health Care, Virginia, Maryland, DC
D.C. teen birth rate drops 15 percent as U.S. hits record low
Updated: Thu, May 23, 2013
Teenage birth rates dropped in D.C. and nearly every other state from 2007 to 2011, with the country as a whole hitting a record low, according to a new study from the U.S. Centers for Disease...
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Terps, College, Maryland, Sports
Homegrown players fuel Maryland women's lacrosse championship hopes
Updated: Thu, May 23, 2013
Team's top five scorers all hail from Maryland The University of Maryland has long been a recruiting force in women's lacrosse, dominating its home state but also cherry-picking national talent...
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Crime, Maryland, Local
Prominent swim coach gets 7-year sentence
Updated: Thu, May 23, 2013
A former Northern Virginia swim coach whose club has produced six Olympians was sentenced Thursday to seven years in prison for sexually abusing a girl whom he coached in the 1980s. Rick Curl,...
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Montgomery County, Maryland
Montgomery County Council approves $4.8 billion budget
Updated: Thu, May 23, 2013
Montgomery County taxpayers will begin paying higher property taxes on July 1 as the County Council approved a $4.8 billion budget on Thursday that includes multimillion-dollar pay raises for...
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Prince Georges County, Education, Maryland
Audit: Prince George's County schools used stimulus funds for principals' watches, microwave ovens
Updated: Thu, May 23, 2013
A federal audit shows that Prince George's County schools misused nearly $167,000 in stimulus money on things like a microwave oven and minifridge for a school administrator, engraved watches for...
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Montgomery County, Maryland
One dead, one hurt after Montgomery Mall construction collapse
Updated: Thu, May 23, 2013
A 50,000-pound beam collapsed on the third deck of a mall parking garage, killing one man working on the second floor and trapping another for hours. As crews labored on a new parking garage at...
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Metro and Traffic, Maryland
Pedestrian killed by Metrobus in Olney
Updated: Thu, May 23, 2013
A 50-year-old Montgomery County pedestrian died after he was hit by a Metrobus late Wednesday in Olney, according to Montgomery County police. Ronald Maurice Johnson of Brookeville was hit as a...
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Montgomery County, Crime, Virginia, Maryland
Prominent swim coach faces sentencing for child sex abuse
Updated: Thu, May 23, 2013
Rick Curl, whose Northern Virginia swim club has produced several Olympians, is scheduled to be sentenced Thursday for sexually abusing a child he coached more than 25 years ago. Curl, 63, faces...
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Maryland, Local
Worker crushed to death after Montgomery Mall garage collapses
Updated: Thu, May 23, 2013
Updated, 4:05 p.m. One construction worker is dead and another severely injured after a 50,000-pound piece of concrete fell and crushed them at a Montgomery County mall. Montgomery County...
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Montgomery County, Crime, Maryland
Basketball-playing teen stabbed near Silver Spring park
Updated: Thu, May 23, 2013
Montgomery County police are investigating a stabbing of a teenager who had been playing basketball at Silver Spring park. Around 6:40 p.m. Monday, two men approached a 17-year-old at Stonegate...
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Prince Georges County, Maryland
Dead man found at Anne Arundel County marina
Published: Thu, May 23, 2013
A 70-year-old Hyattsville man was found dead at an Anne Arundel County marina, police said. About 9 p.m. Wednesday,William Eckert was found in the water near his boat at Holiday Hill Marina in...
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Montgomery County, Virginia, Maryland, DC
D.C.-area cities keep pace with Sun Belt growth
Published: Wed, May 22, 2013
The nation's fastest-growing cities may be in the Sun Belt, but the District and nearby Alexandria and Gaithersburg are gaining residents at a blistering pace, according to census data released...
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College, Maryland, Sports
Suburban Maryland's Stevenson University one win away from first Division III lacrosse title
Updated: Wed, May 22, 2013
Suburban Md. school in Division III title game It was interesting that Stevenson University junior Brent Hiken estimated his faceoff counterpart in the NCAA semifinals to be 6-foot-5 and 280...
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Montgomery County, Maryland
Maryland taxpayers could see refunds as attorney general weighs appeal
Published: Wed, May 22, 2013
Maryland Attorney General Doug Gansler is weighing an appeal of a decision by the state's highest court that would cost the state's counties and Baltimore City $128 million in taxes. Maryland's...
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