Naomi Jagoda

Published: Thu, May 9, 2013

A 17-year-old boy has been killed in a single-car crash in Prince George's County, police said. The teen was driving in the 11900 block of Brandywine Road in Clinton at about 3 p.m. Wednesday when he lost control of his Acura, left the roadway and struck a tree. The teen was pronounced dead at...

Naomi Jagoda

Published: Wed, May 8, 2013

A District Heights man who was a pimp for two prostitutes working at a Hilton hotel in Rockville was sentenced Wednesday to 10 1/2 years in prison. Nahshon Kornegay, 31, was sentenced in Montgomery County Circuit Court. He had been found guilty of human-trafficking, prostitution and drug...

Scott McCabe

Published: Wed, May 8, 2013

Kyle Catterton, a Virginia State University offensive tackle, was named to a all-conference football team in the fall. Now he's a Washington Examiner "Most Wanted" fugitive. The 21-year-old senior from Waldorf disappeared in January as law enforcement officials raided his home in Colonial...

Scott McCabe

Published: Wed, May 8, 2013

On this day, May 9, in 1988, a Seattle woman was found guilty of killing her husband and another person by lacing Excedrin capsules with cyanide. Stella Nickell, 44, had plotted to kill her husband Bruce Nickell for years, checking out library books about poison and talking about hiring a hit...

Scott McCabe

Published: Wed, May 8, 2013

A Sterling man was indicted Wednesday on a charge of sexual abuse of a fellow passenger on a flight to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. Saurabh Agarwal, 40, faces a maximum sentence of two years imprisonment, if convicted. According to court documents filed in Alexandria's federal...

Naomi Jagoda

Published: Wed, May 8, 2013

A 17-year-old District boy was arrested after he drove a stolen car and fled from police in Vienna, police said. About 5 p.m. Tuesday., D.C. police asked Virginia State Police to help them find the boy, who was driving a Chrysler Cirrus that had been reported stolen out of Roanoke. A state...

Naomi Jagoda

Published: Wed, May 8, 2013

The D.C. police officer who was struck in a hit-and-run in March and then waited more than 15 minutes for an ambulance left the hospital on Tuesday, NBC Washington reported. Sean Hickman was on-duty when he was injured on March 5, and he had multiple surgeries. He was taken to a hospital by an...

Scott McCabe and Naomi Jagoda

Updated: Tue, May 7, 2013

D.C. cop accused of money laundering for drug dealer A District of Columbia police officer has been charged in a federal money laundering investigation in Pennsylvania. Jared Weinberg was arrested Monday at the Fourth District station on Georgia Avenue in upper Northwest D.C., where he...

Scott McCabe

Published: Tue, May 7, 2013

A District of Columbia teenager was sentenced to seven years in prison for beating an 81-year-old woman during a break-in of her Chevy Chase home in Northwest Washington. Eighteen-year-old Tyran McElrath, of Southeast D.C., pleaded guilty in D.C. Superior Court to one count of first-degree...

Scott McCabe

Published: Tue, May 7, 2013

On this day, May 8, in 1856, U.S. Rep. Philemon T. Herbert shot and killed a headwaiter who refused to serve him breakfast at the Willard Hotel in downtown Washington. Herbert arrived at D.C.'s most fashionable hotel after breakfast had closed, but he demanded that he be served anyway....