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  • Fairfax standardized tests rescheduled after Internet outage

    Rachel Baye

    Published: Fri, May 24, 2013

    More than 6,600 Fairfax County students had their statewide Standards of Learning standardized tests rescheduled after an Internet outage on Thursday. The outage affected roughly 42,000 exams, according to Fairfax County Public Schools spokesman John Torre. About a third -- 59 -- of the...

  • Man arrested in Gaithersburg hatchet slaying

    Naomi Jagoda

    Updated: 22 hr ago

    A 20-year-old man was taken into custody after using a hatchet to kill another man in Gaithersburg, police said. Claude Alexander Allen III was charged with first-degree murder in the slaying of 25-year-old Michael Phillip Harvey, court records show. Shortly after midnight, Allen called 911...

  • WMATA worker charged with stealing agency defibrillators

    Kytja Weir

    Published: Fri, May 24, 2013

    A Metro maintenance worker has been arrested and charged with stealing defibrillators from rail stations, the transit agency said Friday afternoon. Derrick Davis, 40, of Laurel was arrested Wednesday in an undercover sting after allegedly posting an ad on eBay to sell an automatic external...

  • Jonetta Rose Barras: CFO surprise? Not really

    Jonetta Rose Barras

    Yesterday

    Anyone who has followed the declining career of D.C. Chief Financial Officer Natwar Gandhi isn't surprised by the inspector general's recent report indicating his office failed to collect nearly $7 million in tax penalties from businesses who failed to file electronically. There is a trail of...

  • D.C. teen birth rate drops 15 percent as U.S. hits record low

    Matt Connolly

    Updated: Thu, May 23, 2013

    Teenage birth rates dropped in D.C. and nearly every other state from 2007 to 2011, with the country as a whole hitting a record low, according to a new study from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. There were 42.8 births per 1,000 teenagers ages 15 to 19 in the District in...

  • Prominent swim coach gets 7-year sentence

    Naomi Jagoda

    Updated: Thu, May 23, 2013

    A former Northern Virginia swim coach whose club has produced six Olympians was sentenced Thursday to seven years in prison for sexually abusing a girl whom he coached in the 1980s. Rick Curl, 63, pleaded guilty in February and was sentenced in Montgomery County Circuit Court. The conviction...

  • Talking Points: Bowling shoes, free fries, Alabama illnesses

    Bob Kemper

    Published: Thu, May 23, 2013

    Can you wear bowling shoes anywhere? Not in New York, if state lawmakers have their way. The state assembly is considering legislation that would require bowling alley owners to post signs warning patrons to take off their shoes before going outside. "Bowling shoes are specialized footwear for...

  • Montgomery County Council approves $4.8 billion budget

    Kate Jacobson

    Updated: Thu, May 23, 2013

    Montgomery County taxpayers will begin paying higher property taxes on July 1 as the County Council approved a $4.8 billion budget on Thursday that includes multimillion-dollar pay raises for members of three county labor unions. The county will spend about $34 million for pay increases...