VIA MSNBC: NEW YORK – Employers expect to hire more new workers in 2010 than they did in 2009, a sign the recession may be easing its grip, research showed on Tuesday. One-fifth of employers plan to add full-time, permanent employees next year, up from 14 percent in 2009, according to CareerBuilder.com, an online jobs […]
VIA MYFOXDC: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Police say a D.C. fire engine lost a piece of equipment near the 11th Street Bridge ramp on northbound Interstate 295 Monday night, and about a dozen cars ran over it. The debris caused a number of flat tires, and in some cases accident. According to police, a hose and […]
VIA WJLA: A former Prince George’s County police officer and another man have been indicted for conspiracy to commit bank larceny and attempted robbery. A federal grand jury indicted 41-year-old, former Prince George’s County police officer Eddie Lee Smith, Jr. of Fort Washington, Maryland, and 53-year-old Earl Blake of Capitol Heights, Maryland. According to court […]
VIA MYFOXDC: WASHINGTON, D.C. – This past summer, Metropolitan Police Officer Michael Jones received a call for a “disorderly” on Blaine Street, NE. “I said, ‘Dispatcher, this seems like a domestic,’” which under protocol would require a second unit Jones says. He says he told the dispatcher, “’You need to start me another unit that […]
VIA WASHINGTON POST: John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo’s killing spree in October 2002 happened just long enough ago that the saga now belongs in the collective millennial-age, post-9/11 scrapbook of Washington area anxiety and paranoia. Remember? The squatting while pumping gas, the jumping around, the zigzagging through strip-mall parking lots? And as Virginia […]
VIA MYFOXDC: WASHINGTON, D.C. – D.C. Police have doubled the reward for information in the murder of Kenyetta Nicholson-Stanley, a high school senior gunned down on October 8 by masked men aiming for someone else. The 17-year-old girl was sitting on a playground in the 500 block of Edgewood Street Northeast when police say two […]
VIA WJLA: Metro says it’s much closer to improving safety measures on the rails months after the deadliest crash in the system’s history. The issue in the spotlight is the electronic system designed to detect the location of trains on the track. Metro says it is about to test new safety system,after federal investigators discovered […]
VIA CNN: ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) — An all-male college in Atlanta, Georgia, has banned the wearing of women’s clothes, makeup, high heels and purses as part of a new crackdown on what the institution calls inappropriate attire. No dress-wearing is part of a larger dress code launched this week that Morehouse College is calling its […]
VIA MYFOXDC: WASHINGTON – A D.C. woman convicted of killing her four daughters and living with their decomposing bodies for months returns to court Friday for a hearing on her refusal to use an insanity defense. Banita Jacks was found guilty in July of the four murders. She faces life in prison and had been […]
OSLO — Members of the Norwegian committee that gave Barack Obama the Nobel Peace Prize are strongly defending their choice against a storm of criticism that the award was premature and a potential liability for the U.S. president. Asked to comment on the uproar following Friday’s announcement, four members of the five-seat panel told The […]