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Off-duty deputy sheriff fatally shoots man in Alexandria
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...
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'Armed and dangerous' fugitive eludes authorities
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...
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Appeals court allows retrial in Virginia capital murder case
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...
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Prominent swim coach Curl faces sentencing for child sex abuse
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...
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Jogger struck by school bus in Rockville
Naomi Jagoda
Updated: 16 hr ago
A jogger was struck by a Montgomery County school bus in Rockville, police said.
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The Blotter: New evidence unveiled in Chandra Levy case
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...
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D.C. woman pleads guilty to DUI crash that killed pedestrian
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...
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Suspect in D.C. killings captured in yearlong manhunt
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...
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Missing Person: Foul play suspected in 1995 disappearance of Maryland teen
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...
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Crime History: Southern congressman beats Northern senator with cane
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...
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