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(Washington, DC) Â — Â A District man faces jail time for allegedly beating his roommate’s dog to death. Â Twenty-three-year-old Ishmaaiyl Mulheron was arrested April 8th one one count of felony animal cruelty. Â Humane Society Law Enforcement found the body of a six-year-old Yorkie inside Mulheron’s apartment. Â Necropsy reports show the dog died of blunt trauma and […]
(Washington, DC) — There’s a close primary race of an at-large seat on DC Council. With all precincts reporting, Democratic Councilmember Vincent Orange led Sekou Biddle 40-percent to 39-percent. It’s not official, with absentee ballots to be counted next week. Orange defeated Biddle last year in a special election. In other council races, Marion Barry, […]
(Washington, DC) — DC Police Chief Cathy Lanier plans to hold a community meeting this week to address the recent uptick in street robberies. There have been more than a dozen holdups in various parts of Northwest just in the last week. Many of the robberies have come at gunpoint, which has more and more […]
Radio One is excited to share the dream. A memorial celebrating the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. will be erected on the National Mall on August 28th. President Barack Obama will give an address at the Aug. 28 Memorial Dedication. Below are a full listing of public events: Wednesday, August 24 Honoring Global […]
(Metro Networks) Â Hundreds gathered in front of the White House, chanting USA-USA in celebration of the news that Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is dead. President Obama’s announcement just after 11:30 last night, led to a jubilant crowd spontaneously coming together at Lafayette Park across from 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, and they were joined by a […]
There’s no getting around it. Washington, DC and its surrounding area was built on the back of the Federal government so the looming government shutdown will surely have a debilitating effect on the region’s workers. If no budget gets passed in Congress in time the federal government will be forced into furlough on Friday at […]
Are you happy? Hopefully you are because the Nation’s Capitol was named the nation’s happiest city, according to a new poll. The DC Metro areas not tops the list but is also the only East Coast city in the top 5. The cities that round out the top five are Austin, Texas, San Jose, Calif., Seattle and San […]
(Washington, DC) — DC Council members trail only their counterparts in Los Angeles when it comes to annual salary. According to a just released survey by the Pew Charitable Trust, the average DC Council member earns nearly 126-thousand-dollars a year with DC Council Chairman Kwame Brown making 190-thousand. That averages out to nearly 131-thousand-dollars a […]
The leader of the free world and the basketball’s world champions paid a special visit to children volunteers at the Boys and Girls Club at THEARC yesterday. President Obama, Coach Phil Jackson, Kobe Bryant and the rest of the Los Angeles Lakers, who were also in town to play against the Washington Wizards, took part in a […]
A group of teenage girls harass people on the Metro and one gets physical. It took Metro Police 30 minutes to get there. One of the victims is Elizabeth Jia, a multimedia journalist at 9 NEWS NOW. Jia was on her way to Union Station when she says five teenage girls got on. Jia used […]