It started at a holiday party — perhaps with a slight or a testy exchange, something that prompted Syed Rizwan Farook to storm off angrily. It ended in a bloodbath with 14 people dead and 17 more wounded — the deadliest mass shooting in the United States since Sandy Hook. At its center, a couple, […]
After years of safety and customer service concerns, and promises of improvements, Metro’s new general manager has his work cut out for him, on his first official day at the helm of agency. Paul Wiedefeld tells WTOP he’s determined to instill a culture of safety at the agency. “It starts with me,” said Wiedefeld, “making […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — A gun has been found in a student’s backpack at a District of Columbia high school. Wilson High School principal Kimberly Martin says in a statement that the gun was found Tuesday afternoon. She says the gun was turned over to police, and the student is in custody. D.C. police are investigating. […]
WASHINGTON — School bus cameras routinely catch drivers passing illegally. In Arlington County, Virginia, a law needs to be changed before officers can fine motorists. Though automated stop-arm cameras document the violations, Virginia state law says citations must be handed to drivers, not mailed. That means, for the moment, aggressive motorists get away without punishment. […]
WASHINGTON — A car crashed through the doors of a Howard University dormitory late Thursday night, NBC Washington reports. The crashed happened just before midnight; no injuries were reported. Police tell NBC Washington that alcohol may have been a factor. The driver, a Howard student, has been arrested. The dorm, the Bethune Annex, is located at Bethune Avenue on 4th Street Northwest. The female […]
WASHINGTON — Bryce Harper was named the 2015 National League Most Valuable Player by the Baseball Writers’ Association of America Thursday evening, receiving all 30 first-place votes. It was the first such award for the 23-year-old outfielder, who beat out fellow finalists Arizona Diamondbacks first baseman Paul Goldschmidt and Cincinnati Reds first baseman Joey Votto. […]
Former Subway spokesman Jared Fogle is due in federal court Thursday to learn how much time he’ll spend in prison on child porn and sex crime charges. U.S. District Judge Tanya Walton Pratt was scheduled to sentence Fogle after formally accepting his plea to one count each of travelling to engage in illicit sexual conduct […]
The suspected ringleader in last week’s bloody terrorist attacks in Paris was killed in a pre-dawn raid Wednesday on an apartment building north of the French capital, the Paris prosecutor’s office confirmed Thursday. Authorities zeroed in on a building in the northern Paris suburb of Saint-Denis after picking up phone conversations indicating that a relative […]
COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) — Besides getting a heck of a scare and barely avoiding a painful defeat at home, No. 3 Maryland greatly benefited from the renewal of its series with neighborhood rival Georgetown. The Terrapins were pressed to the limit before Rasheed Sulaimon hit a 3-pointer with 1:18 left to break a tie, […]
A violent, hours-long operation in a Paris suburb ended Wednesday with two suspected terrorists dead, seven detained, new attacks potentially thwarted and further proof, according to French President Francois Hollande, that his country is “at war” with ISIS. The Saint-Denis raid targeted the purported ringleader of last week’s bloody Paris attacks and came as the […]