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(Waldorf, MD) — Nearly two dozen Calvert Elementary School students were treated at the hospital for symptoms of heat exhaustion after attending a minor league baseball game in 100-degree heat yesterday. The students were on an end-of-the-school-year trip to Regency Furniture Stadium in Waldorf to see a Southern Maryland Blue Crabs game when they became […]
(Gaithersburg, MD) — Gaithersburg residents are being urged to be aware of their surroundings outdoors after the discovery of a Copperhead snake this week. The city’s Animal Control says the reptile turned up early Monday evening on Swanton Lane in the Orchard Park community. Officials say the Copperhead and the Timber Rattlesnake are the only two venomous […]
The DC area will be under a heat advisory again today. The National Weather Service says the advisory will be in effect from noon until 8 p.m. The high temperature is expected to be in the mid to upper 90s with heat index values between 100 and 105. Meanwhile, the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments […]
(Washington, DC) — DC Mayor Vincent Gray says he is not a crook. Former mayoral candidate Sulaimon Brown testified this week that Gray offered him money and a job to attack rival Adrian Fenty during the 2010 campaign. The Mayor flatly denies the accusation. “My reputation, which I have built over the past 40 years, as you might imagine, is exceedingly […]
Washington, DC- Due to an “out-pouring” of community support, the funeral of a 20 year old woman and her eleven-month-old-daughter will now be held at Temple of Praise Deliverance Church Friday, June 10th, 2011 starting at 10:00am.Forty-one-year-old DC Cop Richmond Phillips is accused of killing Wynetta Wright and then allegedly leaving her daughter Jaylin in […]
(Prince George’s County, MD) — The DC cop facing a murder charge for the death of a 20-year-old woman, now faces a manslaughter charge in the death of her eleven-month-old child. Forty-one-year-old Richmond Phillips was charged yesterday in death of Wynetta Wright’s daughter Jaylin. Phillips is accused of killing Wynetta Wright then allegedly leaving her […]
(Washington, DC) — Nine people were taken to area hospitals yesterday after two Metrobuses collided in Southeast, DC. The accident happened at the intersection of Martin Luther King Junior Avenue and “W” Street. None of the injuries appeared to be serious and the cause of the crash remains under investigation. Source: Metro Networks Inc.
(Washington, DC) — Hundreds of nurses are expected to descend on Capitol Hill today to rally against proposed cuts to Medicare and Medicaid. Nearly one-thousand nurses from 31 states are set to participate in the demonstrations outside the White House, Congress and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce headquarters. National Nurses United will propose a new […]
(Rockville, MD) — Rockville police now have pictures of two men wanted for a stun gun robbery of a woman who was entering her home along Monroe Street two weeks ago. She was treated for burns. The “Examiner” says investigators got a break when the attackers used her credit cards to buy things in Clinton […]
(Oxon Hill, MD) — Prince George’s County police say a drunk driver caused a car crash that killed three people yesterday morning on Indian Head Highway in Oxon Hill. They say an SUV failed to brake and rear-ended a car which crashed into a tree after it was forced off the road. Three passengers in […]