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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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Sanitary sewer line project to protect Washington County waterway
A $2.6 million, 20-year loan from PennVest, the state's Infrastructure Investment Authority, will enable the Burgettstown-Smith Joint Sewer Authority to lay sanitary sewer lines to protect a Washington County waterway from sewage ...
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Obama to nominate Archuleta for Office of Personnel Management
Barack Obama announced his intent Thursday to nominate Katherine Archuleta as director of the Office of Personnel Management, a statement said. If confirmed, Archuleta will be the first Latina to head the agency, the White House statement noted. Archuleta served as national political director of Obama for America in 2011-12 and was chief of staff at the U.S. Labor Department from ...
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UPDATE 1-Pentagon sees slight drop in F-35 acquisition costs -sources
Thu May 23, 2013 3:19pm EDT WASHINGTON May 23 (Reuters) - The Pentagon's annual report to Congress shows a decline of $4.5 billion, or just over 1 percent, in the projected development and acquisition cost of the Lockheed Martin Corp F-35 fighter jet program, sources familiar with the data said on Thursday. The U.S. Defense Department now projects the cost of developing and building the new ...
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White House Fact Sheet on Counterterrorism Policy
Fact Sheet: U.S. Policy Standards and Procedures for the Use of Force in Counterterrorism Operations Outside the United States and Areas of Active Hostilities Since his first day in office, President Obama has been clear that the United States will use all available tools of national power to protect the American people from the terrorist threat posed by al-Qa’ida and its associated ...
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Video Washington man arrested following ricin letter scare
A 37-year-old Washington state man was arrested Wednesday in a case involving the discovery of a pair of letters containing the deadly poison ricin. Authorities say one of the letters was sent to a federal ...
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Freak snow cancels school in small Washington town
BICKLETON, Wash. — A freak snowstorm in May gave students a surprise day off on Wednesday in the Cascades town of Bickleton. Ten to 12 inches fell overnight within a 5- or 6-mile radius in the Klickitat County community at an elevation of about 3,000 feet. "You go down the hill and get out of it," schools Superintendent Ric Palmer said of the snow. The heavy snow brought down ...
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Coded goal RG3 still aiming for Redskins opener
Robert Griffin III says he cried after his knee surgery and changed his cellphone passcode to the date of the Washington Redskins season opener as he began his rehabilitation ...
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Boehner House wont be stampeded on immigration by White House
House Speaker John Boehner says that while good work has been done in the Senate on an immigration plan, the House will not be rushed into approving ...
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Woman cut from car after Washington Township wreck
Emergency personnel evaluate the scene after extricating the victim of a car accident at the intersection of Wilma Drive and Route 380 in Washington Township on Thursday, May 23, ...
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One Pinned in Garage Collapse
Officials say at least one construction worker was pinned inside a garage at the Westfield Montgomery Mall in Bethesda that collapsed Thursday ...
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Oklahoma tornado victims allowed to return to their damaged homes
A tent is pitched on a property as rescue workers search through debris in Moore, Oklahoma on May 22, 2013. A destructive tornado tore through the city on May 20. UPI/J.P. ...
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Fixing D.C.s tax code the subject of upcoming hearing
Maybe you have an idea or 50 about how to improve D.C.s tax policy. Now is the time to write those up. The D.C. Tax Revision Commission will hold a public hearing next month to receive public testimony on how to make the Districts tax code more fair and more competitive. The commission, led by former Mayor Anthony Williams, is looking for ideas on how to modernize and simplify the code, provide ...
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D.C. home values tripled in two decades
When stacked against states, no state comes close to long-term appreciation of home values in the District, where prices have nearly tripled in the last 22 years. Data from the Federal Housing Finance Agency says median home prices in D.C. are up 293.4 percent since 1991. That's more than three times the national average. Every state shows healthy gains over that same period, with Ohio at ...
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Michael Chasen finally explains how SocialRadar works
SocialRadar founder Michael Chasen At long last, Michael Chasen former Blackboard CEO and current chief of SocialRadar very publicly explains what his new startup does. Here's Chasen, being interviewed this week at the CTIA 2013 expo in Las Vegas. First, the why: Today there's over 1 billion smartphones in the world, and a smartphone for all intents and purposes is a location beacon ...
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Coded Goal RG3 Still Aiming for Redskins Opener
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