Winston Chaney
Former “The Cosby Show” actor Joseph C. Phillips, who played Denise Huxtable’s husband Lt. Martin Kendall on the NBC sitcom, has pointed a finger at his former TV father-in-law in a column on his website titled, “Of Course Bill Cosby Is Guilty!” In the lengthy blog post, Phillips recalls that, during his “Cosby Show” tenure, […]
HAMPTON, Va. — A Virginia woman whose son’s remains were found in her car more than 10 years after he was last seen alive has been charged with murder in his death. Court documents indicate Tonya Slaton of Richmond was indicted Feb. 1 in Hampton Circuit Court on a charge of second-degree murder in […]
A Baltimore drug kingpin who inspired characters on HBO’s “The Wire” has died while serving a term in federal prison in North Carolina. Baltimore Health Department spokesman Sean Naron confirmed on Tuesday that 54-year-old Nathan Barksdale died in a medical prison in Butner. Naron did not know exactly when Barksdale died, or how. The death […]
The three big prizes at the 58th Annual Grammy Awards went three different ways Monday night, with Taylor Swift’s “1989” album winning the biggest of them all: album of the year. “As the first woman to win album of the year at the Grammys twice, I want to say to all the young women out […]
The case started with confusion over where a civil servant in southern Spain worked. Now a court has ruled he must pay back nearly 27,000 euros ($30,500) in wages because for years he actually didn’t work at all. The employee of a water utility owned by the Spanish city of Cadiz didn’t appear at its […]
Denise Matthews, who as Vanity fronted the group Vanity 6 but was best known for her collaboration with Prince, has died at a hospital in Fremont, California. Her death was confirmed by Gisela Hernandez, spokeswoman for Washington Hospital Health Care System. Hernandez did not say when Matthews died or under what circumstances. She was 57 […]
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia died of natural causes and no autopsy was necessary, a judge has told The Associated Press. Chris Lujan, a manager for Sunset Funeral Homes in Texas, said the 79-year-old jurist’s body was taken from the El Paso facility late Sunday afternoon and was to be flown to Virginia, although […]
As many as 16 children were victimized by a former Prince George’s County school volunteer who faces child sex abuse and child pornography charges, police said Saturday. Police said Saturday they believe 22-year-old Deonte Carraway, of Lanham, Maryland, victimized 16 children, including one at Zion Praise Tabernacle Lutheran Church in Bowie, Maryland. Police did not describe in what […]
*A WINTER STORM WARNING for Frederick County, Maryland, and western Loudoun and northern Fauquier counties in Virginia from 1 a.m. until 10 a.m. Tuesday* *A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY for the entire listening area from 1 a.m. until 10 a.m. Tuesday* Monday’s weather is looking like a “layer-cake wintry mess,” says Storm Team 4 meteorologist Tom Kierein, as a second wave […]
Metro Transit Police will give officers high-visibility vests and make other changes to help riders feel safer following a recent string of high-profile assaults. “People again are saying, ‘I’m afraid to ride Metro; I don’t want to go down into these dark stations because I’m scared,’” Metro Board Chairman Jack Evans said. General Manager Paul Wiedefeld […]