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I-5 bridge collapses into Skagit River in Washington three people sent to hospital
Three people were sent to hospital after a bridge carrying the Interstate 5 collapsed into Washington’s Skagit River around 7 p.m. Thursday, plunging cars and people into the rushing water ...
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National Briefing | Washington Cartel Chief Admits Deadly Ambush
immigration agents. The plea involved a February 2011 episode when two hit squads from the cartel Los Zetas forced an armored American government vehicle off a highway near Mexico City. The Zetas commander, Julian Zapata Espinoza, ordered the agents, Jaime Zapata and Victor Avila, out of the car. When they refused, gunmen fired, killing Mr. Zapata and wounding Mr. Avila. Mr. Espinoza, who was ...
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Major bridge collapses in Washington
The Skagit County Sherrif Department has confirmed that three people have been rescued from the water after both the north and southbound lanes of the Interstate 5 Skagit River Bridge collapsed Thursday evening (local time).The collapse happened south of Burlington and north of Mount Vernon just after 7pm local time.Associated Press reported a rescue boat and crews were looking for people in the ...
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Live Cicada Cam Shows 17 Year Dormant Insects Invading Washington D.C.
The last time cicadas came above ground in the mid-atlantic region, gas was $1.15/gal, Ask Jeeves was released, Jerry Maguire & Independence day were the blockbuster movies of the summer. The insect oddity will be invading towns up and down the east coast as the summer wears on. With millions expected to come above ground to mate, die, then the send their off spring back below ground to ...
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Sewage and Fresh Rat Droppings In This Weeks Food Alert
WASHINGTON, DC (WUSA9) - In Fairfax Station, Virginia, health inspectors shut down the Smoothie Bar at Gold's Gym on Ox Road. Officials cited the gym because it had no one trained in food safety and it didn't track employee diseases that could be transmitted through food. Inspectors also cited the Rite Aid on Washington Boulevard in Arlington because none of its workers were ...
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Bridge collapse on Washington interstate drops cars into water
The Washington State Patrol says the Interstate 5 bridge over the Skagit River at Mount Vernon has collapsed, dumping vehicles and people into the water. Trooper Mark Francis said the four-lane bridge collapsed about 7 p.m. PT, closing all northbound and southbound lanes between Burlington and Mount ...
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Boehner Committee Can Decide Whether to Subpoena Communications Between IRS and White House
- Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-Ohio) said he will let the House Ways and Means Committee determine whether to subpoena crucial documents from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the White House that would reveal what the administration knew about the agency's targeting of conservative groups. The ...
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Zimmerman hosts MS fundraiser at Nationals Park
Ryan Zimmerman's mother (second from right) was diagnosed with MS in 1995. (MLB.com) WASHINGTON -- The Nationals didn't arrive back home from a grueling 10-game West Coast trip until around 4 a.m. ET on Thursday, but several players still turned out to Nationals Park to support Ryan Zimmerman's fourth annual "A Night at the Park" fundraiser. The event, hosted by ...
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Tribute for Slain Honors Student at Central High Graduation
A tribute was held Thursday for a local high school student at the graduation he never got to attend. Markell Ross was shot and killed while walking to school back in September. News4's Prince George's County Bureau Chief Tracee Wilkins was at the graduation as Ross' mother accepted his ...
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Jonetta Rose Barras CFO surprise Not really
Gandhi reportedly failed to collect as much as $100 million in recordation taxes from certain refinanced commercial properties; he claimed there was some misinterpretation of the law. The council ultimately made clear in the fiscal year 2013 budget it expects the CFO to levy and collect that ...
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UPDATE 1-Pentagon sees doubled cost for rocket launch program
Thu May 23, 2013 9:27pm EDT By Andrea Shalal-Esa WASHINGTON May 23 (Reuters) - The Pentagon on Thursday told Congress that a recent restructuring of its heavy rocket launch program to add 60 more launches and extend the schedule for a decade would more than double the program's projected cost to $70.7 billion. The Defense Department's annual report to Congress on major arms programs ...
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Two Arrested One Wanted in Deadly Home Invasion
Michael Brown, 23, was found dead inside of his home in the 600 block of Cabin Branch Drive May 14. Investigators said three suspects entered Brown's home earlier that evening and demanded money at ...
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John McCain Schools Mike Lee On Washington D.C. Politics
took time on the Senate floor Thursday to educate new Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) on Washington politics. "Maybe the senator from Utah ought to learn a little bit more about how business has been done in the Congress of the United States," McCain said. The exchange started with Lee objecting to the lack of debate over the debt limit on the Senate floor and claimed that the American people ...
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West Point video allegations add to Pentagon plague of sexual misconduct cases
An Army sergeant who served two tours in Iraq has been accused of secretly videotaping female students as they showered at West Point, the latest in a string of sexual misconduct cases in the ...
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Local High School Shares Special Connection With Tornado Victims
Some students at Briar Woods High School in Loudoun County saw the damage from the tornado in Oklahoma, particularly that at Briarwood Elementary School, and knew they had to do something. Northern Virginia Bureau Chief Julie Carey reports on the bond they feel with the school and how they hope to make a ...
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Officials Rule Alexandria Mans Death Homicide
Julian Dawkins was shot just before 1 a.m. Wednesday on the corner of Lynnhaven Drive and Evans Lane in Alexandria just after getting into a dispute with an off-duty Arlington County Sheriff's ...
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Former Washington County judge charged with theft drug possession
State prosecutors on Thursday charged former Washington County Judge Paul Pozonsky with stealing drug evidence including cocaine from cases over which he ...
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The act of the unconditional capitulation of Germany was signed in a suburb of Berlin on May 8 1945. The Second World War ended. Most Europeans had very little idea of what the post-war world will look like. Washington was preparing to take on a le
The act of the unconditional capitulation of Germany was signed in a suburb of Berlin on May 8, 1945. The Second World War ended. The Third Reich collapsed under the onslaught of the Soviet Army and Anglo-American troops that were advancing from both the East and the West. Italians, French, Germans, Poles and Belgians were celebrating the victory over fascism. Most Europeans had very little ...
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Mocs National Championship Hopes Upset by Western Washington
The top-seeded Mocs were eliminated from the national tournament by No. 8-seed Western Washington in the quarterfinals of match play after a cumulative scorecard tiebreaker. They tied Western Washington ...
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Inane Hangover Part III a dull ache Washington Times
It's been said that you can't go wrong underestimating your audience. "The Hangover Part III" plays like an extended attempt to test the limits of that idea. Grating and unfunny, cynical and stupid, it's a movie that expects exactly nothing of its viewers, and offers them the same in return. "Part III" is predicated on a fundamental error: that being irritating ...
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Mayor Vincent Gray approves $24 million for D.C. worker pay raises
D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray, in a nod toward key segments of his political base as he weighs a re-election bid, on Thursday signed into law pay increases for about 23,000 District government employees and a significant expansion of affordable housing ...
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Senator Questions White Houses Handling Of Drone Program
Robert Siegel speaks with Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon about the Obama administration's shift on drone policy. Wyden was part of a group of senators who demanded that the administration turn over secret documents related to the operation against Amwar al-Awlaki, a US citizen killed in Yemen in a drone ...
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RTP180 draws Triangle’s marketing wizards
Wednesday's #RTP180, about the dos and don'ts of marketing, had a few surprises, such as a proposal that could mean big exposure to one lucky marketing team. But before I get to that, let me offer some marketing advice, straight from the mouths of the Triangle marketing stars. I'll start with Maletea ...
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Man Dies After Being Hit by Metro Bus
MONTGOMERY COUNTY (WUSA9) -- A Metro Bus hit and killed a pedestrian on Georgia Avenue on Wednesday night. The accident occurred at approximately 11:08 p.m., when a male pedestrian fell under the bus as the bus was pulling away from a bus stop. Ronald Maurice Johnson, 50, of Brookeville was transported to Suburban Hospital with non-life threatening injuries at the time but he died after his ...
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Washington works — and plays — at Northwest Folklife Festival
The Northwest Folklife Festival offers the usual round of world music, bluegrass, fiddlers, folk dance, ethnic dance and "indie folk" this year, with the added attraction of a cultural focus on jobs and labor, "Washington Works." A highlight is a "Rosie the ...
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