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Bicyclist Struck On MLK Jr Ave NE
WASHINGTON (WUSA9) -- A bicyclist was struck at Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue and V Street SE on Wednesday morning, say police. The crash happened shortly before 7 a.m., according to police. Police say the bicyclist was transported to the hospital with serious injuries. There is no word on the vehicle and whether it remained at the ...
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Man Stabbed In Stomach In Northeast DC
WASHINGTON (WUSA9) -- Police are looking for a man who stabbed another man early Wednesday morning in the 200 block of 33rd Street NE in DC. According to police, a 20-year-old man was approached by a black male between 16 and 25 years old and 5'4" tall, wearing all dark clothing at 2:38 a.m. Wednesday. The man then stabbed the 20-year-old man in the stomach. Police say the victim was ...
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Obama schedule for Wednesday May 22
Michelle Obama , a concert in the East Room honoring singer-songwriter Carole King, who will be awarded the 2013 Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song. The concert is part of the "In Performance at the White House" series. Vice ...
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Labor College nears sale of 47-acre White Oak campus
National Labor College President Paula Peinovich said Tuesday that the college has signed a tentative agreement to sell its 47-acre White Oak campus to a partnership between Reid Temple African Methodist Episcopal Church and the Housing Opportunities Commission of Montgomery County, The Washington Post ...
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White House plotted with Treasury on how to reveal IRS misdeeds
Treasury Department official about how to break the news of the agency’s improper targeting of conservative groups.Despite the preliminary strategy sessions between ...
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The Pentagon Admits The “War On Terror” Will Never End
It is hard to resist the conclusion that this war has no purpose other than its own eternal perpetuation. This war is not a means to any end but rather is the end in itself. Not only is it the end itself, but it is also its own fuel: it is precisely this endless war - justified in the name of stopping the threat of terrorism - that is the single greatest cause of that ...
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Phil Mendelson seeks shift in collection of D.C. fuel taxes
D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson on Wednesday will ask the council the repeal the District's 23.5 cent-per-gallon gas tax and replace it with an 8.3 percent tax on wholesale and diesel purchases, The Washington Post reported. The proposed shift, included in Mayor Vincent Gray's 2014 budget proposal, would shift the onus of paying fuel taxes from ...
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Pentagon faces another sex scandal
WASHINGTON - The Army suspended the commander of its main basic training camp Tuesday for alleged adultery, the latest in a string of military officers accused of sexual misconduct. Brig. Gen. Bryan T. Roberts, a 29-year Army veteran, was suspended from his post at Fort Jackson, S.C., while the military investigates allegations of "adultery and a physical altercation," officials ...
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Todd English returning to D.C. with new restaurant concept
Todd English Aziz Safi took over the former Galileo III space in downtown D.C. at 600 14th St. NW last year and at the time was mum about his intentions for the space, other than to say the replacement restaurant would be Mexican in flavor. Now, Safi says he's partnering with Todd English, the New York-based personality with a PBS show and a dozen different concepts in his global restaurant ...
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Washington’s love affair with Myanmar It’s the resources stupid
Politics The ramshackle streets of Myanmar's capital Yangon, with its ancient Buddhist pagodas and dilapidated colonial-era buildings, are one of the last places in the world where you'd expect to find Colonel Sanders. If the democratic reforms recently undertaken by Myanmar, a once dysfunctional and paranoid socialist state turned hardcore military pariah, could be attributed to a ...
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D.C. Council Chair Wants to End Gas Tax
According to The Washington Post, Mendelson wants to replace the 23.5 cent tax with an 8.3 percent tax on wholesale gas and diesel. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty ...
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Notebook Remembering Those Who Served
Memorial Day, coming up this weekend, is for remembering those who have died fighting for our country. Veterans Day in November honors all who have ...
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Plan to make Smartrip card obsolete moves closer
Metro General Manager Richard Sarles said Tuesday at a transportation forum at George Washington University that he is pushing for a plan that would phase out the Smartrip card, WTOP reported. "The key thing is you would no longer have to stop at a far vending machine," Sarles says. "You would have the convenience of just using whatever is in your pocket to pay your fare." Under ...
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Isiah Leggett talks Montgomery County nightlife woes
Montgomery County Executive Isiah Leggett Montgomery County Executive Isiah Leggett addressed the 20-plus-member Nighttime Economy Task Force on Monday at its first-ever meeting in Silver Spring, BethesdaNow.com reported. The task force has six months to come up with solutions to problems that could require major changes in the county's suburban culture to fix, and Leggett said there are ...
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Raytheon Lockheed Martin battling it out to build $3B space fence
The U.S. Air Force is expected to pick a winner this summer to build an advanced radar system capable of tracking an estimated half a million pieces of manmade space junk, floating in orbit, before it can threaten satellites used for navigation, weather and communication, The Boston Globe reported. Raytheon Co. and Bethesda-based Lockheed Martin Corp. have competing proposals for the project. ...
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Russia Security Council secretary meets pentagon chief
WASHINGTON, May 22 (Itar-Tass) - Missile defence issues, the situation in Syria and ways to expand the US-Russian military cooperation was discussed on Tuesday by Pentagon’s head Chuck Hagel with Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev, spokesman for the US Department of Defence George Little said on ...
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Gio looks to continue string of solid starts
Giants left-hander Madison Bumgarner experienced a few firsts in his last start against the Rockies. However, they were ones he'd rather forget. Bumgarner surrendered nine runs to Colorado, exceeding his previous career high of eight on June 21, 2011, against the Twins. He also allowed his first Major League grand slam. That major mistake with two outs in the fifth inning chased Bumgarner ...
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Pentagon wants $450m to maintain Guantanamo
The Pentagon is asking for nearly $450m to maintain and upgrade the Guantanamo Bay prison that President Barack Obama wants to close.New details on the administration's budget request have underscored the contradiction of the president waging a political fight to shut the US jail in Cuba while the military calculates the financial needs to keep the installation operating.The budget request ...
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Nats cant preserve Strasburgs great start
WSH@SF: Strasburg dominates over seven strong innings SAN FRANCISCO -- Stephen Strasburg was supposed to get the win and the Nationals were supposed to have ended their three-game slide. A late Giants rally squashed all of that. San Francisco scored one run in the ninth and two more in the 10th to claim a 4-2 walk-off win, sending the Nationals (23-23) to their fourth straight defeat and ...
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GOP lawmakers Oklahoma tornado aid must be offset
As Moore, Okla., residents came to terms with the tornado tragedy, Washington Republicans said extra storm aid would have to be offset by budget cuts elsewhere. Gov. Mary Fallin said she was left speechless after taking an aerial tour of the violent tornado's path and inspecting the damage by car and on foot. "There's just sticks and bricks, basically," she said in the ...
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Lucas Costanzo lead ballot in Washington County
According to unofficial Washington County election results, the Democrat ballot totals are: Lucas, 7,839; Costanzo, 7,788; Alan Benyak, 3,953; Blane A. Black, 3,408; Charles E. Kurowski, 2,777; Lane Turturice, 2,056; Peter V. Marcoline III, 1,570; and Tom Fallert, ...
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U.S. Myanmar sign trade framework agreement
Thein Sein . The agreement will create "a platform for ongoing dialogue and cooperation on trade and investment issues between the two governments," the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative said on its website. It was signed Tuesday in Washington by acting U.S. Trade Representative Demetrios Marantis and Myanmar's Deputy Commerce Minister Pwint San. The agreement calls for ...
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Board hires new Washington County health exec
MARIETTA - The Washington County Board of Health has appointed Court Witschey as full-time administrator at the county health department. Witschey, who has served as the Creating Healthy Communities Grant administrator at the health department for nearly a decade, said he'll officially take the post on June 1. "The board went into executive session and offered me the position at the ...
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Is Catholic Church taking over health care in Washington
Lord knows our schools have problems. But suppose we tried to solve them by doing something radical - say, turning the schools over to the Catholic Church. On the plus side, the Catholics have a good record of running quality schools. The minus side - besides the whole plan being unconstitutional - is that vast majorities of people around here don’t necessarily share Catholic religious ...
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Matt Cowell opens 3-shot lead in Washington Open Invitational golf | Northwest
Matt Cowell of Lake Padden Golf Club in Bellingham shot a 4-under 68 Tuesday to take a three-shot lead in the Washington Open Invitational at Meridian Valley Country Club in Kent. Cowell is at 7-under 137. Four players are three shots back, including first-round leader Chris Griffin, Casey McCoy and two four-time champions, Jeff Coston and Todd Erwin. Michael Haack is the low amateur at ...
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