Scott McCabe

Published: Wed, May 15, 2013

Prince George's County police have a photo of a suspect in a burglary of a home in University Park, and they are asking the public to help identify him. On Tuesday, police officers responded to the 6500 block of 43rd Avenue in University Park for a breaking-and-entering call, in which several...

Eric P. Newcomer

Published: Wed, May 15, 2013

Bond is the head of Living Classrooms, a nonprofit that helps educate children and adults in D.C. and Baltimore. How did Living Classrooms get started? This is our 28th year of operation providing hands-on education and job training programs with a special emphasis on disadvantaged youth. We...

Liz Essley

Published: Wed, May 15, 2013

Commuters going home on the Virginia Railway Express or MARC trains Wednesday evening will face delays as the trains go slower to avoid running into heat kinks in the tracks. VRE officials said Wednesday's forecasted temperature of 88 degrees varied so widely from Tuesday's high of 67 degrees...

Scott McCabe

Published: Wed, May 15, 2013

A Prince George's County jury has awarded $8.6 million to the family of a man who was fatally stabbed at a club in Forestville, but the verdict may be merely symbolic. The jury found that the CFE Event Center failed to provide adequate security the night George Cooper, 25, was stabbed inside...

Naomi Jagoda

Published: Wed, May 15, 2013

A man was found slain inside a Seat Pleasant home, police said. About 10:15 p.m. Tuesday, police responded to the report of a shooting in the 600 block of Cabin Branch Drive and found a man suffering from trauma to the upper body. The man was pronounced dead at the scene, Seat Pleasant police...

Liz Essley

Updated: Tue, May 14, 2013

A Metro railcar at Silver Spring caught fire during Tuesday evening's rush hour, snarling Red Line commuters on their way home from work. Metro said no one was injured. Just before 6 p.m. the train offloaded its passengers one station before, at Takoma, but Metro spokesman Dan Stessel said he...

Liz Essley

Updated: Tue, May 14, 2013

The University of Maryland will hold its commencement ceremony on Sunday, but those attending won't be able to take Metrorail there. The College Park-University of Maryland station will be closed for the weekend, with two other Green Line stations, as Metro crews update tracks and help build a...

Scott McCabe

Published: Tue, May 14, 2013

A 21-year-old Montgomery County man has pleaded guilty to hunting down two brothers and running them down with a car, killing one of them. Fernando J. Valenzuela, of Damascus, pleaded guilty Tuesday to second-degree depraved heart murder in the death of Billie Jay Genies and first-degree...

Kate Jacobson

Published: Tue, May 14, 2013

The Montgomery County Council voted Tuesday to adopt more uniform policies regarding sick leave and overtime use after a report showed employee abuse of the payouts. County Executive Ike Leggett said he is already working to stomp out overtime abuse, as his staff determines how a uniformed...

Rachel Baye

Published: Tue, May 14, 2013

Students at Quince Orchard High School in Gaithersburg will get to keep their Advance Placement psychology exam scores, despite one student shooting a cellphone video at the testing site just before the exam started, officials said Tuesday. The video, which was posted to Twitter on May 6,...