Rachel Baye

Published: Sun, May 19, 2013

A controversial computer-based learning model is competing with eight other proposals to be one of the next charter schools approved for the District. The proposed Nexus Academy of DC, run by a subsidiary of publishing giant Pearson, would offer grades 9 through 12 in Ward 2, eventually...

Naomi Jagoda

Published: Sun, May 19, 2013

A new law in Maryland aims to increase the likelihood that people's lives will be saved by smoke alarms during a fire, officials said. Legislation approved by Gov. Martin O'Malley on Thursday requires that battery-operated smoke alarms in homes have sealed-in batteries designed to last 10...

Naomi Jagoda

Published: Sun, May 19, 2013

Man dies after Northeast D.C. shooting A 21-year-old man who was shot early Saturday morning in Eckington area has died, police said. About 3:20 a.m. Saturday, police went to the unit block of S Street NE and found Dontel Price, of Northeast D.C., suffering from gunshot wounds. Price was...

Steve Contorno

Published: Sun, May 19, 2013

Nash is an associate professor of photography at Lesley University's Art Institute of Boston and director of "16 Photographs at Ohrdruf," a documentary about the first Nazi concentration camp liberated by U.S. troops. The film won the Founder's Choice Award at last weekend's GI Film Festival in...

Naomi Jagoda

Published: Sun, May 19, 2013

Prince William County police are looking for a man who drove his vehicle at police. Christopher Blakeney, 29, is wanted for charges including attempted malicious wounding of a law enforcement officer and attempted assault and battery of a law enforcement officer. On Friday morning, Prince...

Naomi Jagoda

Published: Sun, May 19, 2013

A man was shot in Southeast D.C. early Sunday morning, police said, in an incident that took place at about 3 a.m. on the 2300 block of Pitts Place SE. The man was walking when he was approached by three males wearing hoods who demanded money. The victim then started to run, and he heard...

Naomi Jagoda

Published: Sun, May 19, 2013

What unlikely activity are honeybees being trained to do in Croatia? The insects are being taught by Croatian researchers to find unexploded land mines. The bees have a good sense of smell, and they are being trained to connect the food that they eat with the scent of TNT. During the Balkan...

Scott McCabe

Published: Sun, May 19, 2013

The disappearance of a Johns Hopkins University graduate student once gripped the region and became known as the "Route 29 Stalker" investigation, but 17 years later her case remains unsolved. On March 2, 1996, the 25-year-old Alicia Showalter Reynolds was driving along Route 29 to...

Scott McCabe

Published: Sun, May 19, 2013

A violent fugitive who had been on the run for seven months has been captured thanks to a tip from a reader of The Washington Examiner. Jericho Missouri was featured in the newspaper on Thursday, and was in handcuffs by Friday, according to U.S. Marshals Service. Authorities frisked Missouri,...

Eric P. Newcomer

Published: Sun, May 19, 2013

When it comes to planning a national memorial, the descendants of past presidents often have a role to play both in guiding the vision for the memorial and in helping to raise private funds for the monument. In the case of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial, family members have turned against...