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By SCOTT MCCABE | 06/13/13 07:05 PM
Taste the Rainbow
A Kentucky man is accused of selling more than sweets out of his "Get It" candy store in Louisville.
Lorenzo Byrd is facing numerous drug charges, including trafficking in marijuana and trafficking a...
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By SCOTT MCCABE, NAOMI JAGODA | 06/13/13 06:20 PM
P.G. man faces 115 years for stalking ex-wife
A Hyattsville man was found guilty of stalking and harassing his ex-wife, including setting up fake online profiles seeking sex from men.
Michael Anthony Johnson was...
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By NAOMI JAGODA | 06/13/13 05:30 PM
Prosecutors are recommending that the ringleader in the stabbing of a gay teenage boy near the Howard Theatre last year be sentenced to about 11 years behind bars, court papers show.
Ali Jackson, 20, pleaded guilty...
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By NAOMI JAGODA | 06/13/13 05:15 PM
A 24-year-old woman accused of stealing a kitten from the Washington Humane Society pleaded not guilty in D.C. Superior Court on Thursday, court records show.
Porsha Nicole Evans, of Southeast D.C., has been charged...
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By SCOTT MCCABE | 06/13/13 04:00 PM
A Hyattsville man was found guilty of stalking and harassing his ex-wife, including setting up fake online profiles seeking sex from men.
Michael Anthony Johnson was convicted on 73 counts and is facing a maximum of 115...
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By NAOMI JAGODA | 06/13/13 11:15 AM
A juvenile died after a hit-and-run collision in Prince George's County, police said.
The crash occurred at about 9:45 p.m. Wednesday at Temple Hills Road and St. Barnabas Road in Temple Hills.
According to a police...
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By NAOMI JAGODA | 06/13/13 11:10 AM
Prince George's County police have identified the man who died Wednesday after a police car struck his vehicle and the county police officer who was driving the striking vehicle.
The deceased driver is 32-year-old James...
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By SCOTT MCCABE | 06/12/13 06:30 PM
Arrest in Taser sex-assault attempt
D.C. police have made an arrest of a Montgomery County man who they said used a Taser in a break-in and attempted sexual assault of a woman in Northwest Washington.
Fifty-year-old...
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By SCOTT MCCABE | 06/12/13 06:25 PM
A Silver Spring middle school teacher has been accused of sexually abusing three students on campus.
Montgomery County police began the investigation last month after administrators at the A. Mario Loiederman Middle...
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By SCOTT MCCABE | 06/12/13 06:25 PM
U.S. Marshals deputies are looking for a burglary suspect who was chased away by an unsuspecting University Park homeowner.
According to police, on the afternoon of May 14, the homeowner arrived at the residence on the...
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By NAOMI JAGODA | 06/12/13 04:50 PM
A 28-year-old man has been arrested in the 2011 strangulation and stabbing death of an Eastern Market vendor whose body was found near a creek in a Northeast D.C. park.
Mark Anthony Coates, of Northeast D.C., was...
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By SCOTT MCCABE | 06/12/13 04:10 PM
On this day, June 13, in 1863, opponents of conscription began the New York draft riots, regarded as one of most violent civil disorder events in U.S. history.
The rioters were largely poor, working-class Irish...
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By NAOMI JAGODA | 06/12/13 12:50 PM
One person is dead after his car was struck by a Prince George's County police car being driven by an on-duty officer, police said.
At 3:05 a.m. Wednesday, the officer was responding to an unrelated collision and was...
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By NAOMI JAGODA | 06/12/13 11:45 AM
A Southeast D.C. man has died after being shot in Northeast Washington, police said.
About 9:45 p.m. Tuesday, 45-year-old Lawrence David Phillips was shot multiple times in the 400 block of 18th Street NE, which is in...
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By NAOMI JAGODA | 06/12/13 11:40 AM
A 4-year-old boy died early Wednesday morning from injuries he sustained in a Charles County crash that also caused injuries to two siblings and the children's mother, officials said.
Darius Harsha, his 2-month-old...
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By NAOMI JAGODA | 06/12/13 11:35 AM
A 60-year-old Alexandria-area man was struck by a police car in Fairfax County, police said.
About 2 p.m. Tuesday, the man was crossing Richmond Highway/Route 1 outside of a crosswalk, a substantial distance away from...
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By NAOMI JAGODA | 06/12/13 10:10 AM
A 15-year-old Chevy Chase boy is dead after a tree fell and struck him near the Rock Creek Trail, police said.
Joshua Davis was reported missing by his parents Monday night when he didn't return from a bicycle ride....
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By SCOTT MCCABE | 06/11/13 07:00 PM
Two Northern Virginia friends are in hot water after one of them stole an FBI machine gun and later used the weapon to shoot at a tow truck, according to charging papers.
Jonathan Cowden, 26, a security guard and Nate...
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By SCOTT MCCABE, NAOMI JAGODA | 06/11/13 06:50 PM
Silver Spring man sentenced for child porn
A Silver Spring man was sentenced to nearly four years in prison on a charge of possession of child pornography.
Marc Gange, 35, pleaded guilty in February in federal court...
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By SCOTT MCCABE | 06/11/13 05:35 PM
On this day, June 12, in 1963, civil rights leader Medgar Evers was fatally shot outside his home in Mississippi by Ku Klux Klan member Byron De La Beckwith Jr.
Evers, 37, was instrumental in desegregating the...
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By NAOMI JAGODA | 06/11/13 04:35 PM
A Suitland man has been arrested for stealing about 2,500 pounds of copper wire worth roughly $10,000 from a Pepco facility, police said Tuesday.
Kevin Andrew Price, 50, was arrested on charges of theft and breaking and...
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By NAOMI JAGODA | 06/11/13 04:25 PM
Prince George's County police continue to investigate a 1996 parental abduction of a young Clinton boy.
In May 1996, Reuben Bennett Blackwell II was 3 1/2 years old when he was abducted by his father, Reuben Bennett...
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By SCOTT MCCABE | 06/11/13 02:50 PM
A Silver Spring man accused of secretly taking photos of interns at a D.C. office was sentenced to nearly four years in prison on a charge of possession of child pornography.
Marc Gange, 35, pleaded guilty in February...
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By NAOMI JAGODA | 06/11/13 11:55 AM
A Poolesville woman died after single-car crash in Montgomery County, and her 18-year-old daughter was injured, police said.
About 9:40 p.m. Monday, Frances Cooke D'Anna, 52, was driving a blue 2008 Hyundai Elantra...
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By NAOMI JAGODA | 06/11/13 10:50 AM
A D.C. police cruiser was involved in a crash with another vehicle Tuesday morning, officials said.
The accident occurred at 13th and U Streets NW. The officer driving the cruiser and the woman driving the other vehicle...
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By ANDY BROWNFIELD | 06/10/13 09:35 PM
A surge in gun sales in Maryland has led to a massive backlog in background checks, taking as much as 10 weeks instead of the required seven days.
In the first five months of 2013, the Maryland State Police received...
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By SCOTT MCCABE, NAOMI JAGODA | 06/10/13 06:00 PM
Arrest made in Logan Circle restaurant robbery
D.C. police have charged a man with robbing two people at gunpoint as they dined on the patio of a Logan Circle restaurant last month. Police, who posted a video of the...
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By SCOTT MCCABE | 06/10/13 05:25 PM
D.C. police have charged a man with robbing two people at gunpoint as they dined on the patio of a Logan Circle restaurant last month.
Police, who posted a video of the robbery on YouTube last week seeking the identity...
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By SCOTT MCCABE | 06/10/13 05:20 PM
A Virginia man was stopped at Washington Dulles International Airport for attempting to bring a loaded gun onto a plane.
According to Metropolitan Washington Airport Authority Police, Albert N. Henderson Jr., 52, of...
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By NAOMI JAGODA | 06/10/13 04:55 PM
Two Frederick County men were arrested after an off-duty Montgomery County police officer witnessed a bank robbery in Damascus, police said.
Officer William Morrison was operating his marked patrol vehicle on Thursday...
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By SCOTT MCCABE | 06/10/13 04:20 PM
A Montgomery County man convicted of killing his wife and fatally beating his 11-year-old stepson with a baseball bat was sentenced to two life sentences without the possibility of parole.
Curtis Lopez used a 30-pound...
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By SCOTT MCCABE | 06/10/13 03:55 PM
An Alexandria man was sentenced to 10 years in prison for selling an improvised explosive devise believing the bomb would be used to commit murder.
Vytlingum "Tony" Kandasawmi, 34, was accused of making and selling pipe...
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By SCOTT MCCABE | 06/10/13 01:25 PM
A 4-year-old girl and two adults are dead after a three-vehicle crash in Wheaton.
Killed were Elizabeth Lemus, 4, and Salvador Lemus Ramos, 39, and Felipe Pineda, 50.
The crash happened around 9:45 p.m. Sunday at...
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By NAOMI JAGODA | 06/09/13 10:20 PM
A former temporary employee at the Cesar Chavez Public Charter Schools for Public Policy in D.C. is expected to plead guilty to stealing more than $75,000 from the place where she once worked.
Darlene Ford, of Suitland,...
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By NAOMI JAGODA | 06/09/13 07:00 PM
Months after a Shih Tzu named Coco was stabbed multiple times in Southeast D.C., the dog is doing well with a new family.
Coco was stabbed with a kitchen knife on Sept. 21 on the 4300 block of Hillside Road in a case of...
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By SCOTT MCCABE | 06/09/13 06:45 PM
Christine Mirzayan had a promising future as a biochemist before she was bludgeoned to death in Georgetown, thelast known victim of a man known as the Potomac River Rapist.
The daughter of Iranian immigrants, Mirzayan...
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By ANDY BROWNFIELD | 06/09/13 06:45 PM
N.J. man charged in road rage killing
The Maryland State Police have charged a New Jersey man in a fatal shooting on I-97 in Anne Arundel County Saturday night that stemmed from what they are calling an incident of road...
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By SCOTT MCCABE | 06/09/13 06:40 PM
On this day, June 10, in 1977, the assassin of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. escaped from prison.
Using a jail-yard fight as a diversion, James Earl Ray and six other convicts used a ladder made of broken...
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By ANDY BROWNFIELD | 06/09/13 03:30 PM
The Maryland State Police have charged a New Jersey man in a fatal shooting on I-97 in Anne Arundel County Saturday night that stemmed from what they are calling an incident of road rage.
Joseph Walker, 40, was charged...
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By RACHEL BAYE | 06/07/13 11:54 AM
Violent crime has jumped 33 percent at the District's public elementary schools this school year, while the amount of those crimes occurring at middle and high schools fell.
Public elementary schools saw 57 incidents of...
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By NAOMI JAGODA | 06/07/13 11:20 AM
A juvenile has been taken into custody after a carjacking at a Georgetown gas station, and police said that they are looking for two others involved in the crime.
About 1:10 a.m. Friday, a Virginia woman was at the...
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By SCOTT MCCABE, NAOMI JAGODA | 06/06/13 06:20 PM
Fire officials investigate
cause of Frager's blaze
Two firefighters injured in the four-alarm fire that destroyed Frager's Hardware on Capitol Hill have been released.
D.C. Assistant Fire Chief Brian Lee said the...
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By SCOTT MCCABE | 06/06/13 05:35 PM
Rectum? It coulda killed him
Patrick Stapleton apparently is quite the kidder.
According to Anne Arundel County police, the 22-year-old Stapleton shot a sleeping friend in the buttocks with what he believed was a BB...
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By SCOTT MCCABE | 06/06/13 05:15 PM
On this day, June 7, in 1892, Homer Plessy was arrested for refusing to leave his seat in a "whites-only" railroad car in New Orleans.
Plessy was seven-eighths white and one-eighth black, which, by Louisiana law, meant...
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By NAOMI JAGODA | 06/06/13 04:10 PM
Wednesday night's fire at Frager's Hardware has saddened Capitol Hill residents who frequented the neighborhood business. One year ago, the area was rocked by another business-related tragedy when an H Street Northeast...
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By NAOMI JAGODA | 06/06/13 01:25 PM
Two men were killed in separate shootings during a violent night in the District, officials said.
One of the men -- 26-year-old Andre Wilson, of Northwest D.C. -- died after a double-shooting in the Sursum Corda area....
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By SCOTT MCCABE | 06/06/13 12:30 PM
Diners at a Logan Circle restaurant were robbed at gunpoint, and police are asking the public to help identify the suspect.
It happened around 9:30 p.m. May 17, while the couple was seated on the veranda of the...
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By SCOTT MCCABE, NAOMI JAGODA | 06/05/13 05:20 PM
Woman sexually assaulted during break-in
D.C. police are investigating an armed burglary and the sexual assault of a woman at her home in Northeast Washington.
At about 4 a.m. Wednesday, the two robbers entered a...
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By NAOMI JAGODA | 06/05/13 05:10 PM
The U.S. Department of the Treasury announced Wednesday that it is targeting six leaders of the MS-13 gang -- including one man who authorities say ordered two slayings in the Washington area -- in an effort to disrupt...
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By SCOTT MCCABE | 06/05/13 04:35 PM
Prince George's County fire officials performed an unusual rescue after a motorist thought he heard "meowing" from the hood of his car.
A driver of a Lexus sedan drove up to the Kentland fire station on Landover Road on...
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