Naomi Jagoda

Updated: 8 hr ago

A 22-year-old man is dead after being shot by an off-duty Arlington County deputy sheriff in Alexandria, police officials said. Family and friends identified the victim as Julian Dawkins, who worked for the "PBS NewsHour" program. The deputy sheriff, 44-year-old Craig Patterson, was questioned...

Scott McCabe

Published: Wed, May 22, 2013

U.S. Marshals are looking for a fugitive with a violent history who has disappeared after they say he violated his parole on a robbery charge. Kinshasa Reddock, 28, was serving out a sentence for beating up and robbing a customer outside a Chinese restaurantin the 1900 block of Third Street in...

Naomi Jagoda

Published: Wed, May 22, 2013

A federal appeals court in Richmond will allow prosecutors to pursue a capital murder case against a man whose conviction in Prince William County had previously been overturned, the Associated Press reported. Justin Wolfe had previously been sent to death row for the 2001 murder of his...

Scott McCabe

Updated: 11 hr ago

Rick Curl, whose Northern Virginia swim club has produced dozens of Olympians, is scheduled to be sentenced Thursday for sexually abusing a child he coached more than 25 years ago. Curl, 63, faces up to 15 years in prison and will have to register as a sex offender, according to the Montgomery...

Naomi Jagoda

Updated: 16 hr ago

A jogger was struck by a Montgomery County school bus in Rockville, police said.

Scott McCabe and Naomi Jagoda

Published: Tue, May 21, 2013

New evidence unveiled in Chandra Levy case Defense lawyers in the Chandra Levy murder case say they weren't made aware of evidence about a key witness that could help prove their client did not kill the former federal intern. In documents made public Tuesday, lawyers for Ingmar Guandique...

Naomi Jagoda

Updated: Tue, May 21, 2013

A District woman who had been drinking alcohol and smoking crack cocaine before she drove a car up onto a sidewalk and killed a pedestrian last month in Southwest D.C. has pleaded guilty. Maria N. Werts, 49, pleaded guilty Tuesday to charges of involuntary manslaughter and driving under the...

Scott McCabe

Published: Tue, May 21, 2013

A 29-year-old District man wanted in connection with two separate murders, including the killing of his girlfriend in front of their children, has been arrested in Pennsylvania. Reynard Cook was captured near State College over the weekend, nearly one year to the day that his girlfriend was...

Naomi Jagoda

Published: Tue, May 21, 2013

Tracie Lynn Mosley was 18 years old when she was last seen in Maryland nearly two decades ago. After visiting two nightclubs in Pikesville, Md., a friend dropped Mosley off in the early morning hours of April 17, 1995, at Highfalcon Road and Pittston Circle in Reisterstown, the Baltimore...

Scott McCabe

Published: Tue, May 21, 2013

On this day, May 22, in 1856, Rep. Preston Brooks of South Carolina beat Sen. Charles Sumner with a cane in the hall of the United States Senate for a speech Sumner had made attacking Southerner sympathizers of pro-slavery violence in Kansas. Sumner's "Crime Against Kansas" speech mocked the...