VIA PAMELA ON POLITICS: The job numbers weren’t good news for the Obama administration Friday as the unemployment rate climbed and Republicans blamed the president’s policies for lagging improvement. Who’s right about what can spur job growth? President Obama told folks in his weekly internet address that one of his policies that will help create […]

VIA THE GAZETTE: A New Jersey man who fatally shot his estranged wife in the parking lot of a Silver Spring church earlier this year was sentenced to life in prison without parole in a Montgomery County courtroom today. Kevin Kelly, 53, was convicted by a county jury in September of first-degree murder and use […]

VIA WJLA: More than 100 teachers, along with parents and students, protested Monday morning after the District’s budget problems forced the firing of over 300 DCPS employees. “Education not termination,” the crowd chanted. Around 8:45 a.m., protesters rallied outside of McKinley Tech High School, one of the schools most affected by the cutbacks. “This is […]

VIA WASHINGTON POST: A District police officer traded gunfire with would-be carjackers in Prince George’s County Sunday in the second such incident in the county in less than a week, Prince George’s police said. The off-duty police officer involved in Sunday’s incident in Capitol Heights was not hurt. It was not clear whether he wounded […]