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The U.S. Secret Service is working on plans to build a new, taller White House fence to stop the frequent problem of people climbing it and jumping over onto the White House grounds. The agency says it wants to raise the height of the fence from 6 feet to more than 11 feet, according to a presentation […]
By taking TCU wide receiver Josh Doctson with the 22nd overall pick in the NFL draft, the Washington Home Team added a red-zone target for quarterback Kirk Cousins while finding someone who eventually could help replace DeSean Jackson and Pierre Garcon. “I wasn’t expecting it at all,” Doctson said Thursday night. “I met with them […]
A 22-year-old woman says the prominent bishop of a Baptist church in Prince George’s County repeatedly stalked, harassed and made unwarranted sexual advances toward her at the church. Bishop Michael C. Turner Sr., the senior pastor at The Miracle Center of Faith Missionary Baptist Church in Capitol Heights, Maryland, has been charged with second-degree assault, […]
Here’s a surefire way to get busted for robbery: leave the scene of the crime and hop over the White House fence. The White House was locked down briefly Tuesday after a man jumped the fence alongside the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, a White House facility where presidential staffers work. Secret Service spokesman Robert Hoback […]
Voters headed to the polls Tuesday to choose their nominees to replace retiring Sen. Barbara Mikulski and to fill the congressional seats left open by two contenders hoping to succeed her on Capitol Hill. Additionally, voters chose candidates for several board of education races in Prince George’s and Montgomery counties. Baltimore primary voters made their picks for […]
Reinstatement of Tom Brady’s four-game “Deflategate” suspension affirmed NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell’s power — a major point of contention for the NFL players’ union. The league and the NFLPA have disagreed for years over Goodell’s authority to punish players who violate the personal conduct policy. The union wants a neutral arbiter to issue discipline. The […]
When he was alive, Prince made hundreds of millions of dollars — for record companies, concert venues and others. That much is certain. What’s less clear is how much he left behind and who’ll come forward to claim it. Less than a week after the pop star died and an outpouring of grief and nostalgia […]
A medical examiner confirmed that the body discovered in Shenandoah National Park Thursday afternoon was missing Fairfax County firefighter Nicole Clardy Mittendorff, and she died of suicide. Mittendorff’s remains were found more than a mile from the Whiteoak Canyon Trail parking area, where her car had been located last Saturday. After her body was recovered, […]
Billy Paul, the Philadelphia based singer has died at the age of 81, his website and manager confirmed. Paul, born Paul Williams, is best known for the Philadelphia International hit “Me and Mrs. Jones,” written by the legendary Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff. Paul had been diagnosed with cancer and was hospitalized last week, according […]
A Florida man who landed a one-person gyrocopter on the lawn of the U.S. Capitol in Washington in 2015 as a stunt to protest the influence of money in politics was sentenced Thursday to spend four months in jail. In sentencing 62-year-old Douglas Hughes, Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly said he displayed a total lack of concern […]