Kate Jacobson

Published: Sat, May 18, 2013

Police in Prince George's County have arrested three men in connection with more than 50 burglaries in the county since December 2012. Anthony Nyrekie Edwards, 40, David Benjamin Neal, 24, and Jamal Cooke, 21, all from Oxon Hill, have been charged with burglary. Police said the three men...

Naomi Jagoda

Published: Sat, May 18, 2013

Prince George's County police Cpl. Ben Conner started flying at a young age. He said he first began flying planes as a 16-year-old high school sophomore and then became a flight instructor during his senior year. On his 31st birthday, May 8, Conner became the youngest pilot-in-command in the...

Naomi Jagoda

Published: Sat, May 18, 2013

A District man convicted of the 2011 slaying of his ex-girlfriend's brother has been sentenced to nearly 40 years in prison, officials said. Brandon Andrews, 31, was sentenced to 39 1/2 years in prison in D.C. Superior Court. He was found guilty in February of second-degree murder for fatally...

Scott McCabe

Published: Sat, May 18, 2013

On this day, May 19, in 1987, an 11-year-old boy was killed by two polar bears after he and his friends sneaked into their enclosure at a Brooklyn zoo. Police found the bears, standing 8 feet tall and weighing 900 and 1,400 pounds, tugging at the body of the dead boy, Juan Perez. It took 20...

Scott McCabe

Published: Thu, May 16, 2013

Losing weight A Georgia woman is facing charges after police said she dropped weights, plates and beer mugs from an 18th-story balcony at people down below. Witnesses said they heard a woman, later identified as Chloe Chalavoutis, screaming from a balcony above, go back into her apartment...

Naomi Jagoda

Published: Thu, May 16, 2013

Three men injured in D.C. shootings Two separate shootings in the District overnight left a total of three men injured, police said. The first shooting took place shortly before midnight on the 800 block of Buchanan St. NW. A man told police that he was walking when the assailant emerged...

Scott McCabe

Published: Thu, May 16, 2013

On this day, May 17, in 1965, after a nearly two-year investigation, the FBI Laboratory declared the lyrics of "Louie Louie" to be unintelligible. The Kingsmen's 1963 cover about a Jamaican sailor who missed his girlfriend had caused a countrywide panic. Rumors spread that the incoherent...

Naomi Jagoda

Published: Thu, May 16, 2013

A Montgomery County man was arrested in Prince George's County after he shot a childhood friend, took off his clothes, climbed onto a firetruck while naked and was shot with a Taser by police, authorities said. Mohamed S. Bah, 24, was charged with attempted murder, assault and other offenses....

Naomi Jagoda

Updated: Thu, May 16, 2013

A 47-year-old man shot in his estranged wife and then took his own life in Prince George's County, police said. According to a preliminary investigation, Jason Taffe, of Silver Spring, went to the home of his 41-year-old estranged wife, Denise Taffe, in the 7700 block of Pinewood Drive in...

Naomi Jagoda

Published: Thu, May 16, 2013

Two separate shootings in the District overnight left a total of three men injured, police said. The first shooting took place shortly before midnight in the 800 block of Buchanan Street NW, which is near Sherman Circle. A man told police that he was walking when the assailant emerged from...