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VIA THE WASHINGTON POST: One of the five men arrested in connection with a series of fatal shootings last month that left five people dead –including a mass drive-by shooting — pleaded guilty Thursday to five counts of second-degree murder while armed and is cooperating with police investigators in one of the deadliest outbreaks of […]
VIA THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER: Metro had a strong month in March, running 20.3 million trips on its rail system — a million more than a year earlier. But the transit agency still fell below its projections for how many riders it would carry, according to figures the agency provided to the Washington Examiner. That continuing […]
VIA THE EXAMINER: Today, ANC 8E in Ward 8 will be hosting its first mayoral candidate forum of the year with almost all of the mayoral candidates but the current mayor Adrian Fenty expected to be in the house. As of press time, DC mayoral candidates Vincent Gray, Ernest Johnson, Leo Alexander, Sulamon Brown, Dennis […]
VIA THE WASHINGTON POST: Reports of Benjamin Brown’s demise, it turns out, were greatly exaggerated. He’s alive and well — or maybe not so well, considering he’s behind bars. Brown, 36, of Forestville, pleaded guilty Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Washington to what sounds like a fairly dull crime: obstruction of an official proceeding. […]
VIA WTOP: Inmates in Montgomery County could help the county save two jobs. How? Higher charges for phone calls. Right now, when an inmate in Montgomery County phones home from the Montgomery County Correctional Facility, there’s a 65 cent charge to that inmate’s family. The county is considering an additional surcharge of 35 cents. The […]
VIA THE WASHINGTON POST: A jewelry store owner in his mid-70s staved off an armed robbery in Montgomery County on Tuesday by firing his gun, possibly hitting one or both robbers, county police said. The two men remained at large Tuesday evening, police said. Authorities said the incident occurred about 2 p.m. at Sandro Jewelry […]
VIA THE WASHINGTON POST: Legislation introduced in Congress on Tuesday would weaken the District’s gun-control laws and restrict the D.C. Council from regulating firearms. The effort comes a week after congressional officials, responding to similar pro-gun language in a D.C. voting rights bill, dropped the legislation, which would have secured a voting seat in the […]
VIA THE WASHINGTON POST: A D.C. Superior Court judge on Tuesday ordered the fifth and final suspect in a deadly drive-by shooting last month to be held without bond in D.C. jail. Prosecutors charged Jeffrey D. Best, 21, with four counts of first-degree murder and one felony murder count in the attacks. His lawyer, Michael […]
VIA THE WASHINGTON POST: Metro riders on the Green, Yellow and Blue lines should expect delays Wednesday because of problems on the tracks. Trains on the Blue and Yellow lines between National Airport and Crystal City stations are moving more slowly than usual following two derailments of a piece of track equipment. The machine, called […]
VIA THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER: Montgomery County residents looking to get their hands on the hard stuff no longer would have to head for the county line on Sundays under a proposal from one County Councilmember. Councilman Mike Knapp, D-Germantown, said the county can make an additional $1.5 million to $2 million a year by opening […]