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No pay raise for Washington governor this year
OLYMPIA, Wash. — Washington Gov. Jay Inslee and most statewide elected officials and lawmakers won't get a pay raise this year, but judges will see a salary hike. The Washington Citizen's Commission on Salaries for Elected Officials adopted a salary schedule Wednesday. A spokeswoman for Inslee, Jaime Smith, told The Olympian ( http://bit.ly/10U0Dwa) a freeze is appropriate as ...
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Bill would enable DOD to continue IT employee exchange program
A bill proposed Wednesday would continue the Information Technology Exchange Pilot program that enables the Defense Department to send IT employees to private sector organizations and vice versa, Nextgov reports. Reps. Derek Kilmer, D-Wash., and Jim Bridenstine, R-Okla., introduced the legislation, which gives the military access to the most up-to-date private sector talent and technology. The ...
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Katherine Archuleta nominated as next OPM director
John Berry's successor as director of the Office of Personnel Management will be nominated by President Obama on Thursday, Federal News Radio reports. Archuleta served as chief of staff for the Labor Department until 2011, when she left to be the national political director for the Obama re-election campaign. She also worked as a senior policy adviser for the mayor of ...
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GSA announces governmentwide purchase agreement to consolidate wireless service
The General Services Administration has signed a blanket purchase agreement with four telecommunications companies to consolidate its wireless service plans and centralize management, FedScoop reports. AT&T Inc., Sprint Nextel Corp., T-Mobile USA Inc. and Verizon Communications Inc. are part of the agreement, which could bring approximately $300 million in savings over the next five years, ...
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Suitland Man Charged With Assaulting Toddler
Clifton Edward Bernard, 26, admitted to assaulting his girlfriend's 2-year-old son Wednesday morning. The child was taken to an area hospital, where he is listed in critical condition. Police say the child suffered several injuries, including trauma to the ...
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D.C. Police Seek Additional Suspect in March Drive-by
D.C. police released pictures of two persons of interest and a vehicle they are trying to locate in connection with Monday morning's drive-by shooting that injured 13 people in northwest D.C. News4's Shomari Stone ...
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White House Fourth American killed in overseas drone strikes
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama is set to at least partially lift the veil of secrecy surrounding U.S.-directed drone strikes around the world, a key component of counterterrorism strategy, as he outlines the contours of the continuing threat to American ...
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Link between Washington County bomb threats bank heist probed
At 9:30 a.m., Bentworth School District officials notified police that they had received a bomb threat at the high school. Public safety officials were conducting a car-crash safety drill, Hartman ...
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Federal agencies seek a leaner real estate footprint
General Services Administration Public Buildings Service Commissioner Dorothy Robyn, Health and Human Services Assistant Secretary for Administration E.J. Holland Jr., Department of Homeland Security Chief Readiness Support Officer Jeffrey Orner, and Nuclear Regulatory Commission Executive Director of Operations William Borchardt testified on their real estate plans during a Congressional ...
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NII Holdings splits chairman CEO roles
Chief Executive Steven Shindler will continue to serve as a member of the board under the changes. Reston-based NII Holdings Inc., which sells a Nextel-branded wireless service in Mexico and Latin America, has separated the roles of chairman and chief executive. NII's board approved the change at the company's annual shareholder meeting this week. Chief Executive Steven Shindler will ...
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Washington ranks high for backyard BBQs
Washington ranks high on a list for backyard barbecues. If Washington makes a Top 10 list, well write about it. Especially if it involves a good cookout. Real estate tracking firm Redfins list of Best Cities for Backyard Barbecues ranks Washington No. 6. Redfin looked at the percentage of single-family homes for sale with large back yards 0.25 acres to 4 acres how many houses have decks and ...
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Carole King Honored With Gershwin Prize at White House Ceremony
Carole King was was presented with the Gershwin Prize for Popular Song at the White House last night by President Obama, who called the singer-songwriter a "living ...
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Obama Meets With Illegal Aliens in White House
(CNSNews.com) - President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden met with three young people at the White House Tuesday who are in the country illegally but received "deferred action" status under the executive action taken by the administration last June. In all, Obama and Biden met with eight people advocating for comprehensive immigration reform on Tuesday, according to White ...
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Marylanders Are Highest Earners in U.S.
The annual list has typically put Maryland behind Connecticut or New Jersey. However, this year Marylanders' incomes increased more than $3,000 on ...
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3 Prince William Co. Schools on Lockdown After Nearby Robbery
Nearby Lake Ridge Middle School, Woodbridge High School and Old Bridge Elementary School were placed on lockdown due to the police activity. Everyone is safe, but entry is ...
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Old Guard Honors Fallen With 200K Flags
The Old Guard was established in 1784 and is the oldest infantry regiment in the country. Its main duties are to lead memorial affairs for fallen soliders and, according ...
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Carjacked Mercedes hits D.C. school bus
About 7:30 a.m. Thursday, police received a call about a carjacking in the 2200 block of Seton Way in District Heights. Two men wearing ski masks demanded the victim's gray Mercedes 350 CLK, and the victim complied. At least one of the carjackers had a handgun, Prince George's County police spokeswoman Officer Nicole Hubbard ...
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Surveys Many Bikeshare riders wouldnt have driven
Capital Bikeshare is saving cash and time for its riders, making them healthier while also taking cars off the roads and spurring economic development, according to two new surveys of ...
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Armed and dangerous fugitive eludes authorities
"Reddock is unpredictable and should be considered armed and dangerous," said Inspector James Werking of the Capital Area Regional Fugitive Task Force. "We need to take him off the ...
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FBI arrests suspect in Washington state ricin case
SPOKANE, Wash.-The FBI has arrested a suspect in a case involving the discovery of a pair of letters containing the deadly poison ricin and says investigators are working "around the clock" to address any remaining risks. Matthew Ryan Buquet, 37, appeared in federal court in Spokane after the FBI said agents arrested him Wednesday afternoon. He pleaded not guilty to mailing a ...
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Coburn Typical Washington BS
Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn on Thursday whacked Washington for politicizing questions about aid for his state, which suffered a devastating tornado this week."This is all a game, and it’s a crass political game because I was being asked these questions [about offsets] before we even pulled the dead people out of the rubble," Coburn (R-Okla.) said on MSNBC’s "Morning ...
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Washington man guilty of sodomizing child
A Washington man will be sentenced July 23 after a jury found him guilty of sodomizing a child. The jury deliberated for just over three hours before finding Ronny Adamse guilty of stautory sodomy by having deviate sexual intercourse with a child under the age of 12 on September 23, 2011. Adamse faces between 10 years to life in prison. The defendant must serve 85-percent of his sentence ...
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How White House is showing sheer incompetence with messaging
tornado can be while it rips apart homes and literally forces them to fly into the air like twisted tiny pieces of degree ev -- debris that are huge and bill karins showing that ten-ton ...
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IRS scandal turns into an even bigger public relations mess for the White House
Lois Lerner, the IRS official who first disclosed that the agency had targeted conservative groups, surprised a House committee Wednesday by delivering an opening statement, and then taking the fifth. The Daily Rundown guest host Peter Alexander reports and NBC's Mark Murray joins the ...
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Toth Due in Federal Court in Child Porn Case
In 2008, Toth was escorted from the campus of Beauvoir, an elementary school on the grounds of the National Cathedral, after another school employee reported finding images of child pornography on a school camera in Toth's possession. He fled before he could be ...
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