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(Washington, DC) — Police have identified the man killed when someone opened fire Saturday near DC’s Caribbean Festival Parade. Forty-three-year-old Robert Foster, of the District, died at the hospital. Three others were being treated for gunshot wounds. Police are not confirming reports the violence may have been gang-related, but investigators also believe it had nothing to do […]
(Washington, DC) — A criminal investigation is underway after boxes of burial records from Arlington National Cemetery were found in an abandoned storage unit in Northern Virginia. The records were discovered June 10th and news of their recovery was made public during a U.S. House hearing yesterday. The 69 boxes contained copies of grave cards given to a contractor to help create a […]
(Falls Church, VA) — The husband of a Falls Church Council member is facing charges for alleged sexual contact with underaged girls. Charges against Michael Gardner include felony sexual battery for incidents that allegedly occurred in his home last weekend with three girls under the age of 13. Gardner’s wife is Robin Gardner, the former Falls Church mayor and current council member. […]
(Undated) — President Obama appears to be facing an uphill battle to win voter confidence ahead of next year’s election. A new Bloomberg National Poll shows only 30-percent of Americans say they’ll definitely vote to re-elect Obama in 2012. Thirty-six-percent say they definitely will not vote for Obama. Most Americans polled say the President will […]
(Washington, DC) — A federal appeals court has upheld a ban on using chalk to write messages on the sidewalk outside of the White House. On Tuesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals ruled that the District’s defacement statute banning the defacing or defiling of public or private property is constitutional. The law was challenged by […]
(Montgomery County, MD) — Three people are under arrest in connection with the armed robbery of an Olney Dunkin’ Donuts. Montgomery County Police say that 19-year-old Jose Ramirez, 18-year-old Augusto Silva and 19-year-old Guillermo Mata-Henriquez of Silver Spring are all facing charges in the robbery. According to police, Dunkin’ Donuts employee Mata-Henriquez staged the robbery […]
Ninth grade students from KIPP DC College Preparatory joined together with IBM executives, from the Washington, D.C. metro area as well as leaders from the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture to celebrate the 100th anniversary of IBM’s founding on Wednesday. KIPP DC College Preparatory students teamed together with IBMers to develop […]
(Olympia, WA) — A Washington state woman is in trouble with the law for allegedly trying to use Facebook to sell food stamps. The Washington Department of Social and Health Services says it was tipped off about a Marysville woman attempting to unload a couple of hundred dollars worth of the stamps for half price. A sting was set-up […]
(Washington,DC) — Baltimore Congressman Elijah Cummings says his nephew, 20-year-old Christopher Cummings, was “an amazing young man” who was loved and admired by many. He was an “exceptional” student with a three-point-five grade point average at Old Dominion University. Police in Norfolk say, at this point, they have no suspects nor motive in Cummings’ shooting death Friday at […]
A film by Washington, DC resident Regina Griffin, “Brown Babies: The Mischlingskinder Story”, has been selected as one of four documentaries to be screened at the Black American Film Festival in Miami, FL, July 6-9. Her documentary directorial debut is a powerful story of the painful plight of biracial, bicultural, and illegitimate children born to white German women and black American soldiers during postwar occupation Germany. For more information […]