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White House on hot seat Part I
Wait, none of those accomplishments has even come remotely close to happening? No matter. If I have a terrible day, where I mess up everything I touch, my dog will still be wagging her tail and waiting to be petted when I get home. The liberal press serves the same function for Mr. Obama. He'll be just ...
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DC Bike To Work Day Hits Record Attendance
WASHINGTON (WUSA9) -- It is bike to work day in DC and the thousands who took part couldn't have asked for better weather. More than 14,000 people signed up to ditch their four wheels on Friday in favor of two. The annual event is coordinated by Commuter Connections and the Washington Area Bicyclists Association. It includes more than 70 pit stops for cyclists in DC, Maryland and ...
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Republicans Expand I.R.S. Inquiry With Eye on White House
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Md. Man Commutes By Rowing Along Anacostia River
WASHINGTON (WUSA9) -- Gabe Horchler has worked at the Library of Congress for 40 years and for the last 14 of them his daily commute has been more like an urban adventure. The 68-year-old leaves Capitol Hill and bikes about 2-miles to the Anacostia Community boathouse. It's here that Gabe keeps his second mode of transportation - a shell which he will row six-miles up the Anacostia ...
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Suspect Charged After Shooting Climbing Firetruck Naked
A shooting suspect took off his clothes and climbed on a fire truck in Prince George's County Thursday. Police used a Taser to subdue him, News4's Pat Collins ...
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Pentagon chief vows to fix militarys sexual assault problem
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel ordered top military chiefs on Friday to redouble their effort to address the problem of sexual assault, saying the frequency and perceived tolerance of the crime was eroding the military's ability conduct its ...
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Washington Park man charged in Belleville carjacking
A Washington Park man faces charges in a Wednesday carjacking that led police on a high-speed chase. Timothy L. Allen, 31, of the 1200 block of North 49th Street, has been charged with one count of aggravated vehicular hijacking and aggravated fleeing and eluding. He's in jail with bail set at $750,000.The incident started around 11:30 p.m. Wednesday in a Belleville Circle K parking lot at ...
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Pentagon asks to shift $9.6 billion
The Defense Department began forwarding documents to Congress late Friday seeking to shift as much as $9.6 billion within accounts to cope with what it said were large shortfalls in overseas contingency funds related to Afghanistan.The massive reprogramming exceeds the $7.5 billion cap set by Congress for annual transfers between accounts, and to bridge the gap DOD is tapping into other ...
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Elderly Man Sentenced To 60 Years For Carjacking Kidnapping
WASHINGTON (WUSA9) -- A Landover man was sentenced to 60 years in prison on Friday after being convicted on carjacking and kidnapping charges. This is surveillance video of 51-year-old Henry Sanders going on a carjacking spree Montgomery County the week after Thanksgiving of 2011. Sanders abducted three elderly men from the parking lot of the Westfield Wheaton Mall, leaving the victims beaten ...
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Washingtons Wilcox undergoes foot surgery
Washington guard C.J. Wilcox has undergone surgery on his left foot to stabilize a stress fracture that bothered him for much of his junior ...
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Congressman Pushes Ban on U.S. Abortions After 20 Weeks
Republican Rep. Trent Franks had introduced a bill that would ban such procedures only in the District of Columbia. But following the Kermit Gosnell case, he plans to amend it so it would apply nationwide. Gosnell is a Philadelphia abortion doctor who was convicted of killing three babies after they were born ...
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Food trucks from Baltimore and Washington to square off
Get ready to roll. Baltimore and Washington’s fleets of food trucks are squaring off again. Some 40 trucks, 20 from each city, are expected to attend the second Taste of Two Cities event on June 1, which is relocating from Westport Waterfront to Rash Field. Food trucks from Baltimore and Washington will compete in several categories. An overall winner will be presented the Mayor’s ...
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Attorney generals office to prosecute alleged killer of Washington Co. deputy
o The Missouri Attorney General's Office will prosecute Gary Sancegrow, who is charged with murdering a Washington County deputy, because the county's prosecuting attorney once represented Sancegrow and has "privileged and confidential information" about his mental-health history, court documents say.Deputy Christopher Parsons, 31, was helping load Sancegrow's mother ...
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Washington Gets Explicit Its War On Terror Is Permanent
unveiled to the Washington Post their newly minted "disposition matrix," a complex computer system that will be used to determine how a terrorist suspect will be "disposed of": indefinite detention, prosecution in a real court, assassination-by-CIA-drones, etc. Their rationale for why this was needed now, a full 12 years after the 9/11 ...
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4 Students Sent To Hospital After DC High School Fight
WASHINGTON (WUSA9) -- Four student were transported to a local hospital with non life-threatening injures after a fight broke out at a Southeast high school, police say. According to DC Police, someone sprayed mace when several students got into a fight at Ballou High School, located at 3401 4th St., at about 12:55 p.m. on Friday. Two of the students were having difficulties breathing. It is ...
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Washington Man Pleads Guilty to Trafficking in Counterfeit Airbags
A 25-year-old Vancouver, Washington man pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Tacoma to conspiracy to traffic in counterfeit goods, announced U.S. Attorney Jenny A. Durkan. VITALIY YAREMKIV was arrested April 2, 2013 after being indicted by a grand jury in Seattle. In his plea agreement, YAREMKIV admits that between June 2011 and June 2012, he sold more than 900 counterfeit vehicle ...
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Tim Cooks pitch for a corporate tax holiday suits Washington just fine | Heidi Moore
Apple , is a perfect example. It's easy to imagine that Cook wouldn't have a free moment, and that he'd be busy at home in Cupertino, California, with a litany of troubles: the fears that Apple's glory is over; that innovation isn't on schedule; that major shareholders are selling out; and the persistent downward misery of the company's stock price, which ...
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Army general who served in Afghanistan is Pentagon pick to command US troops in South Korea
WASHINGTON - An Army general who served as a top official on U.S. joint military staffs in Afghanistan and at the Pentagon is the choice to command U.S. troops in South Korea. Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel announced the promotion of Lt. Gen. Curtis "Mike" Scaparrotti at a Pentagon news conference Friday. The moves comes at a tense time on the Korean Peninsula. The North has stepped ...
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Venezuelas Maduro still waiting on Washingtons recognition
More than a month since Maduro was elected Venezuelan president by less than 2 percent of the vote, the US has not recognized his victory. A partial recount of the ballot is currently ...
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Pentagon Establishes Process For Transgender Veterans To Change Gender Records
Autumn Sandeen protesting Don't Ask, Don't Tell. Despite the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, the military still does not allow people who are transgender to serve. Still, many people only transition after they’ve completed their service, creating complications for their continued receipt of benefits. Now, the Pentagon ...
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Two Sent to Hospitals After Fight at Ballou
Reports about the fight differ, reports Mark Segraves. However, the D.C. Fire and Emergency Services department reported at least two students had been transported to the ...
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At $105000-plus Maryland households the nations top earners
Maryland households are the nations top earners. The Department of Health and Human Services this week released its annual list of the estimated state median income for four-person families, and Maryland, for the first time, comes out on top with $105,348. The Free State traditionally comes in second or third, behind New Jersey or Connecticut. But Maryland incomes, per the list, were bumped up ...
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Man Sentenced For Killing Exs Brother Shooting Father
WASHINGTON (WUSA9) - A man who killed his ex-girlfriend's brother and shot her father in 2011 was sentenced to more than 39 years in prison on Friday. Thirty-one-year-old Brandon Andrews of Washington, D.C., was sentenced to 39 years, says U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. Andrews was found guilty in February 2013 in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia of second-degree ...
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Woman Wins $1 Million From DC Scratcher Ticket
WASHINGTON (WUSA9) -- Congratulations to Jacqueline Hull of Washington. She won $1 million playing the DC Black II instant scratcher ticket, say DC Lottery officials. Officials say Hull bought her winning ticket from Dave Brown's Liquors at 4721 Sheriff Road, NE. Hull, the mother of two teenagers, says now that she has won, "I can take the kids to Disney World and I'm going to ...
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Friday tech newsloaf LivingSocials guns Grotechs funds
D.C. Tech this week, as much as any other, was a national story, either because it drew the attention of national press or because its actors are traipsing around the country, or both: Grotech bucked the sad, sad national VC fundraising trends by raising a $225 million fund. Meanwhile, General Partner Don Rainey is moving to Charlotte, with plans to spend two weeks a month up here. LivingSocial ...
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