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(Lawrence, KS) — An advertisement offering a baby for sale on Craigslist is being called a hoax. Police in Lawrence, Kansas received a phone call Friday from a concerned citizen saying they’d spotted the ad offering a baby for 300 dollars. Detectives discovered there was indeed an ad then found the people who they believe […]
(Cottage City, MD) — A Prince George’s County Police Officer opened fire on a man while on the hunt for a suspect in another shooting. It happened around 5 o’clock last night on Cottage Terrace, in the Cottage City area of the county. The officer was investigating a shooting in the Brentwood area when he […]
Do we pay too much attention to terrorism? The United States Department of Defense defines terrorism as “the calculated use of unlawful violence or threat of unlawful violence to inculcate fear; intended to coerce or to intimidate governments or societies in the pursuit of goals that are generally political, religious, or ideological.” Within this definition, […]
We would like to extend a congratulations to Radio One founder/ chairwoman Cathy Hughes, 93.9 WKYS program director Neke Howse, Majic 102.3 and Praise 104.1 program director Jamillah Muhammad and the rest of our Radio One family who made Radio Fact’s Top 30 Black Women in Media list. Click here to see entire list
(Prince William County, VA) — A Woodbridge man will spend 13 days in jail for shooting at a dump truck driver on I-95 in a road rage incident. Twenty-six-year-old Gabriel Poventud must also pay five-thousand dollars in fines for the March 2010 incident. Earlier this year, a jury found Poventud guilty of unlawfully shooting at […]
(Washington, DC) — The average price for a gallon of a gas for the entire DC area now tops four-dollars. Triple-A Mid-Atlantic says the four-dollar-one-cent average is 31-cents higher than a month ago and a dollar-nine higher than a year ago. The region is now just nine-cents below the all-time high of four-dollars-ten-cents a gallon, […]
(Montgomery County, MD) — Montgomery County says with several months still left in the fiscal year, overtime budgets for several agencies are nearly exhausted. Some critics say the problem has been caused in part because of a decision by County Executive Ike Leggett to give some nine-thousand county public service workers 48-hours of extra paid […]
(Riverdale, MD) — U.S. Park Police are on the scene of a double shooting along the Baltimore-Washington Parkway. The Northbound lanes of the Parkway will be shutdown for several hours between the exit for Route 410 and the beltway, after two men were shot around 2:15 this morning not too far south of the exit […]
(Rockville, MD) — The Montgomery County Council will consider a grant that would allow for the purchase of computer software and hardware to track the locations of patients transported to area hospitals from the scene of an accident. Using hand-held technology, the system would be used to distribute patients to the most available hospitals in […]
(Washington, DC) — Police have recaptured a District teenager who allegedly beat a guard and escaped from the New Beginnings secure youth detention facility in Laurel two weeks ago. The Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services says 18-year-old Treyvon Carey was taken into custody Monday on a DC Superior Court arrest warrant. Copyright © 2011 Metro […]