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Victims Mother Spends 20 Years Fighting Police Brutality
Dorothy Elliott's son was shot 14 times while sitting in a police cruiser while handcuffed during a suspected DUI stop. His mother has been fighting for victims of police brutality ever since. News4's Darcy Spencer has the ...
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Metro Bus Has Oil Leak Emits Cloud Of Smoke
WASHINGTON (WUSA9) -- Metro officials say a bus had an oil leak which caused a huge cloud of smoke to be emitted, and it was all caught on video. The Route 31 bus was on Wisconsin Ave., headed downtown to Potomac Park at about 8:26 p.m. when the incident occurred, Metro officials said. There were no reports of fire or injures on the bus that was carrying eight passengers at the time, ...
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One Juvenile Injured Falling Off School Roof
Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department's Twitter page , a young man was "hanging from conduit approximately 8-10 feet off the ...
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Two Additional Arrests Made in NE Murder
Just two weeks after police arrested a suspect on murder charges in connection with the death of 31-year-old Akinwole Olu Williams, two more arrests have been ...
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Huge Plumes of Smoke Funnel Out of Metrobus
The Route 31 bus to Potomac Park was leaking oil, causing a large plume of smoke at approximately 8 p.m. The bus did not catch on fire, but there was a mechanical ...
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Fairfax County Votes to Expand Home Day Care
A townhall addressing the change will be hosted July 20 by Fairfax County, followed by workshops to "assist providers" with necessary paperwork, according to county chairman Sharon Bulova's ...
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Josh Duggar snags Family Research Council job in Washington D.C.
Michelle and Jim Bob's 19 children , is following in the footsteps of his politically conscious father, who once served in the Arkansas House of Representatives but failed to win the Republican primary for U.S. Senate. Th 25-year-old reality star, who now has a wife and three children of his own, will serve as the executive director of the Family Research Council's conservative ...
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Guest Boeing’s exodus from Washington state
WE recently learned Boeing will be moving some engineers and technical professionals to other parts of the country. The news comes at a time when the world’s focus is on aerospace, with this week’s Paris Air Show and last Friday’s inaugural flight of the Airbus A350 - the rival to Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner. Moving jobs is a continuation of the company’s steady ...
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Davey Nats have a lot of season ahead
PHILADELPHIA -- After losing to the Phillies on Monday, Nationals shortstop Ian Desmond went to manager Davey Johnson and said the team wasn't playing as loose as it did last year. A year ago, the Nationals were 41-28 after 69 games before they went on to win their first division title. Entering Tuesday's action, the Nationals were 34-35, 7 1/2 games behind the Braves in the National ...
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Lannan has no ill will toward Nationals
Email PHILADELPHIA -- A day after having a strong performance against the Nationals, Phillies left-hander John Lannan expressed no ill feeling toward his former team. Lannan acknowledged it was weird facing the Nationals, the team that drafted him in 2005 and non-tendered him after last season. "I knew I had to go out there and face them like any other opponent, and I did," Lannan ...
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Measles Alert for Dulles Airport Travelers
Measles is very contagious and is spread through coughing, sneezing and contact with secretions from the nose, mouth and throat of someone who's ...
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Fairfax County Firefighter Uniforms Get Inexpensive Facelift
Northern Virginia Bureau Chief Julie Carey reports on uniform changes being made by new Fairfax County Fire Chief Richard Bowers. Among the changes, T-shirts will include a company number and firefighters will be permitted to wear ...
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Wanted Man Runs Through Streets of D.C. Without Shoe
News4's Pat Collins explains how a wanted man was discovered and led officers on a wild chase that included a Metrobus in a failed effort to get ...
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A la carte Brusters adds seasonal flavors Washington County Fair cooking contests
Bruster's Real Ice Cream has added three seasonal flavors to its line-up of made-on-site premium frozen treats. Through July, Bruster's will be scooping Black Raspberry and Black Raspberry Chocolate Chunk ice cream made with real fruit. Peach, with its fresh, off-the-tree taste, will complete the limited-time ...
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Pentagon to Allow Women in Key Combat Roles by 2016
PENTAGON -- The U.S. military says that within the next three years, it will put women in key combat roles from which they were previously excluded. American women have been serving in combat roles and hundreds have been killed on the front lines for years, but they have been excluded from key positions in areas including Special Operations and infantry. In January, then-Defense Secretary ...
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DC Council Passes Food Truck Bill
WASHINGTON (WUSA9) -- The District's rapidly growing food truck industry will finally get the regulations that all sides had been clamoring for. The DC Council approved emergency legislation on Tuesday afternoon. The food trucks were first spotted about three years ago in the District's center city near the Squares and metro stops. Foods of all kinds can be found here that are ...
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High-Pitched Buzzing Noise Keeps Some Shoppers Away
There's an unusual noise at a local Harris Teeter grocery store, and only certain people can hear it. News4's northern Virginia reporter David Culver has the ...
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Roy Oswalt to make Rockies debut Thursday vs. Washington
Roy Oswalt. (Michael Wyke, Tulsa World) TORONTO - Veteran pitcher Roy Oswalt will start for the Rockies on Thursday in Washington, manager Walt Weiss said, as Colorado looks to provide a boost to its rotation and ease the burden on the bullpen."He's a nice piece to add at this point," Weiss said Tuesday. "He always competes."By choice, Oswalt, 35, made five starts for ...
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Sinkhole Opens Up In NW DC
DC Firefighters Union L36 tweeted. The incident happened on Tuesday at about 5:30 p.m. in the rear of 128 M Street NW. No injures were reported, officials said. We will have more information when it becomes available. WUSA9 reporter Debra Alfarone is on the ...
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Dept. of Labor Investigates Capital Bikeshare Unfair Wages
The Department of Labor has opened up an investigation into unfair wages by Capital Bikeshare, a company one former worker says grossly underpaid ...
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Two Arrested in Robbery of Bicyclist
Jacob Gilbertson, 23, of 8809 Vernon View Drive, and Benjamin Yeannakis, 23, of 2902 Mosby Street in Alexandria, were charged with robbery and use of a firearm in the commission of a ...
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Fedex UPS Bogus Email Scams
It seems like new email scams are popping up almost every week: this time, scammers are impersonating UPS and FedEx. The companies are warning customers of fraudulent emails that are NOT from the companies ...
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Washington Post writer Mitt Romney lost because hes Superman modern voters prefer Batman
In this June 8, 2012, photo, Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney smiles has he talks with his staff while riding on his bus after a campaign stop in Council Bluffs, ...
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Wine of the Week
Cordial Fine Wine and Beer opened in Union Market last month. The store features wines from Europe, South Africa, Chile, New Zealand and the United States. (Alex ...
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Google wants to make public PRISM information
Google asked a special court in Washington Tuesday to let it make public information it's being forced to give to the government. Google is one of nine companies named in NSA documents as providing information to the top-secret PRISM program. The company is asking that U.S. officials give it more authority to describe the government's demands as it and other companies seek to reassure ...
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