VIA THE GAZETTE: Missing Bowie State University student Katrice Hall of Lanham and her cousin, Shawnta Hall have been located unharmed, according to an e-mail sent to the campus community Friday afternoon. Bowie State campus police did not have the address of the cousin. Katrice’s mother, whose name has not been released, reported the cousins […]
Churches around the country will observe Internet Evangelism Day on Sunday by focusing on digital outreach. The initiative is an opportunity for any church to explore opportunities for sharing God’s love online. Internet Evangelism Day was launched in 2005 and over this period digital media has developed dramatically with the advent of YouTube, Facebook and […]
VIA WJLA: Metro has fired a bus driver arrested early this month for allegedly displaying a knife during a dispute with another motorist in Southeast Washington. Dwayne Adamson had been a Metrobus driver for three years. Metro spokeswoman Lisa Farbstein says the driver had been on paid administrative leave since the April 2 incident and […]
A Catholic priest, who has served in the Washington, DC Archdiocese for the past six years has been removed from ministry and ordered home to Germany to face allegations that he sexually abused teenage girls there some two decades ago. Church officials say the German Bishops’ Conference informed the Archdiocese about the allegations involving Reverend […]
VIA CNN: Fifteen years ago, a bomb ripped through a federal building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, in the worst homegrown terrorist attack on U.S. soil. The April 19, 1995, attack killed 168 people, shattering the notion that America was largely immune to domestic terrorism. On Monday, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano traveled to to Oklahoma […]
VIA WTOP: WASHINGTON – Three schools on the grounds of the National Cathedral were briefly locked down Wednesday morning after reports of a man with a gun on campus. No one was injured. Police received a 911 call reporting a man with a weapon on the cathedral’s campus around 8 a.m. Wednesday, D.C. Assistant Police […]
(Washington, DC) — DC police have taken three people into custody for questioning following shootings last night that left four people dead and six others wounded along South Capitol Street in Southeast. Police say the gunfire broke out near South Capitol and Atlantic streets as a group was standing outside an apartment building. They had […]
VIA THE WASHINGTON POST: A new D.C. law means the Rev. Mary Kay Totty can now marry same-sex couples. But in the United Methodist Church, the denomination that ordained Totty two decades ago, the act could get her defrocked. Totty, 46, said she’s willing to take the risk. “The institutional church has for so many […]
VIA THE WASHINGTON POST: In its first direct vote on the issue, the U.S. Senate has rejected an amendment to the health care reconciliation bill that would have stopped same-sex marriage in the District until a referendum could be held. Sen. Bob Bennett (R-Utah) had introduced that amendment; the full Senate rejected it early this […]
(Baltimore, MD) — There are jobs available for U.S. Census Bureau enumerators to go door to door. Seema Iyer is directing the Baltimore City Complete Count Campaign. The door to door counting will start late April through the middle of July. For job information go to baltimorecity.gov/2010census or contact the Census Bureau. Hiring will go […]