A Florida man who pleaded guilty to landing a gyrocopter on a lawn outside the U.S. Capitol as a political protest says he now wants to land a spot inside the building, as a member of Congress. Douglas Hughes, a Democrat from Ruskin, Florida, declined to say Wednesday in a telephone interview which of Florida’s […]
Jurors said they were deadlocked Tuesday as they weighed manslaughter and other charges against a police officer in the death of Freddie Gray. The judge told them to keep deliberating and they went home for the night without reaching a verdict. The jury reported its difficulty in a note to Baltimore Circuit Judge Barry Williams […]
WASHINGTON — A lot more police officers will soon wear body cameras in the District. The amendment allows Metropolitan Police Department officers to see their body camera footage before they write their reports about what occurred. Under a measure approved by the D.C. Council Tuesday, the number of officer body cameras will go from around […]
The vast complexities of a dangerous world were cast in too-simple terms in the latest Republican presidential debate. In addition, Chris Christie pledged to make common cause with a Jordanian king who’s actually dead and Rand Paul wrongly stated that all terrorist attacks in the U.S. since 2001 have come from the hands of legal […]
A month and a half after a D.C. man died in the custody of two special police officers, the Medical Examiner has ruled his death a homicide. The exact cause of 27-year-old Alonzo Smith’s death is “sudden cardiac death complicating acute cocaine toxicity while restrained” with a contributing factor of “compression of torso.” We have […]
FAIRFAX, Va. – Police say a homeless man was arrested after he was found living in a manmade cave at a park in Fairfax. Fairfax City Police have charged 25-year-old Yosue Joel Rios with destruction of property after a person reported seeing a covered tunnel had been dug at Van Dyck Park on Old Lee […]
Kirk Cousins and the Washington Home Team figured they had to get a road win somewhere to have a chance of winning their division. They found what they were looking for in Chicago. And they can thank another late field goal miss by Robbie Gould. Cousins threw for 300 yards and a touchdown Sunday, and […]
President Barack Obama signed an executive order Dec. 11 permitting federal employees to take off the last half of the scheduled workday on Christmas Eve. “The heads of executive branch departments and agencies may determine that certain offices and installations of their organizations, or parts thereof, must remain open and that certain employees must remain on duty […]
A jury found former Oklahoma City police officer Daniel Holtzclaw guilty Thursday of some of the most serious charges against him, including sexual battery, forcible oral sodomy and rape. Holtzclaw faced 36 counts. He was found guilty on 18. The former officer cried openly in the courtroom and rocked in his chair as the verdict […]
A train filled with passengers that left a station south of Boston Thursday morning without an operator was being investigated as a case of operator error, officials said. The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority said the runaway Red Line train took off from Braintree Station without its driver at approximately 6 a.m. Thursday morning. The train […]