VIA WASHINGTON POST: BALTIMORE, Aug. 13 — With the focus again on their struggling offensive line, the Washington Washington Football Team began the preseason Thursday night against the Baltimore Ravens hoping for positive signs from the unit. The injuries and pass-protection problems of training camp could continue to stir concern, but the first-team offensive line […]
Via New York Times: Les Paul, the virtuoso guitarist and inventor whose solid-body electric guitar and recording studio innovations changed the course of 20th-century popular music, died Thursday in White Plains, N.Y. . He was 94. The cause was complications of pneumonia, the Gibson Guitar Corporation and his family announced. . Mr. Paul was a […]
VIA CNN: The Philadelphia Eagles welcomed Michael Vick back into the National Football League on Friday after the quarterback spent almost two years in federal prison on a felony dogfighting conviction. Vick, formerly with the Atlanta Falcons, has signed a two-year deal with the Eagles. “I think everybody deserves a second chance,” Vick said at […]
(Baltimore, MD) — The new dean of the University of Maryland School of Law is proof of just how far the school has come. Fifty-eight-year-old Phoebe Haddon, who is African-American, was hired last month, 79 years after the university denied admission to Thurgood Marshall. Marshall sued the school on behalf of another African-American student and […]
(Mexico City) — Authorities in Mexico say they’ve foiled an apparent plot to kill President Felipe Calderon. A mid-level member of the Sinaloa drug cartel has reportedly been arrested along with four suspected drug traffickers in connection with the plot. President Calderon has angered drug cartels in his country with his ongoing effort to wipe […]
(New York, NY) — Two air traffic controllers on duty during last Saturday’s mid-air collision over the Hudson River in New York have been suspended by the FAA. The agency says the controller in charge of the plane that hit a helicopter was on the phone when the collision occurred. The FAA is also suspending […]
(Washington, DC) — President Obama is taking his campaign for health care reform on the road again. He has town halls scheduled in Montana today and Colorado on Saturday. White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said the President will continue efforts to “address misperceptions and misconceptions” about health care reform. Citing one example, Gibbs cited well-circulated […]
(Washington, DC) — Pack your patience if you plan to take Metro’s Red or Orange lines this weekend. The Fort Totten station will be closed all weekend as workers replace track circuitry near the site of the worst accident in Metro’s history. Shuttle bus will be provided, but be prepared for delays. Over on the […]
(Annapolis Junction, MD) — A man working for a landscaping company in Howard County is dead after police say he lost control of a riding lawn mower, fell down a ten-foot embankment and the lawn mower fell on him. The victim is identified as 26-year-old Cerelino Valtazar of Columbia. He was working for Premier Lawn […]
