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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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Victim takes gun from robber in Laurel

    Scott McCabe

    Published: Tue, May 21, 2013

    A would-be robber in Laurel was foiled when he lost his gun to his victim. It happened around 1:45 a.m. Tuesday in the 3400 block of Laurel Fort Meade Road just off the Baltimore-Washington Parkway. A man approached a group of people in the rear parking lot near a Walmart, pointed a handgun...

  • Montgomery County police investigate report of shooting

    Naomi Jagoda

    Published: Tue, May 21, 2013

    Montgomery County police are investigating whether a man being treated for a gunshot wound was shot Monday afternoon near an elementary school in the Montgomery Village area. Police received an anonymous report from someone who said they witnessed a shooting near Stedwick Elementary School at...

  • Suspects indicted in Alexandria cop shooting, eldery man's slaying

    Naomi Jagoda

    Published: Tue, May 21, 2013

    An Alexandria grand jury has indicted a man in the shooting of a police officer and a woman in the slaying of a 94-year-old man, officials said. Kashif Bashir, 27, was indicted for shooting Alexandria Police Officer Peter Laboy during a Feb. 27 traffic stop. Bashir is charged with attempted...