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Wells Kicks Off DC Mayoral Campaign
Wells spoke at his campaign kickoff event Saturday about bringing the transformation of his home ward citywide. He also says he wants to restore integrity to city government, which has been beset by ...
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Haren hopes to close series strong against Padres
Since moving to the starting rotation at the end of April, Padres right-hander Andrew Cashner has been on quite a roll. In five starts this season, Cashner is 2-2 with a 2.51 ERA, allowing four runs or less in four of the starts. He'll try for that same kind of success in Sunday's series finale against the Nationals at Petco Park. While the right-hander didn't factor into the ...
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Nats offense unable to lift Zimmermanns strong start
WSH@SD: Zimmermann turns in strong outing vs. Padres SAN DIEGO -- Right-hander Jordan Zimmermann and left-hander Eric Stults found themselves in a pitcher's duel on Saturday evening at Petco Park. When it was over, Stults and the Padres won the battle, 2-1. The game was tied at 1 when the Padres went ahead in the bottom of the eighth inning on a single by Everth Cabrera. Alexi Amarista ...
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Bitcoiners rally to enlighten Washington
IDG News Service (San Francisco Bureau) - Washington's biggest problem when it comes to Bitcoin may just be that policymakers on the Hill don't know enough about it, yet. That was the general consensus of a panel of legal experts speaking Saturday at a Silicon Valley conference devoted to the nascent digital currency. "Congress is the wild card here," said Jerry Brito , ...
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Metropolitan Washington Airport Authority Police shot to death www.privateofficer.com
Police have identified the man shot and killed in his Sterling home Friday night as Steven Spradling, 52, an officer of the Metropolitan Washington Airport Authority Police Department. Rosangela Spradling, 42, has been charged with first degree murder is being held at the county jail without bond. A neighbor identified the pair as husband and wife. Two children were in the home, in the 21700 ...
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UPI Sports Calendar for Sunday May 19
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Joe Soucheray Hey Washington is anyone in charge out there
Joe Soucheray (John Doman, Pioneer Press) Maybe it is just me, a small player after all, out here in what used to be called flyover land, but I wonder if we haven't reached the point of this country, certainly this government, becoming unglued. I have been reading stories all week that used to inspire college kids to at least light candles, play Neil Young records and bang on drums. My ...
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Kaitlin Inglesbys gem helps Washington softball team past Hawaii 2-0 in NCAA regionals
In a matchup of top-flight pitchers, Washington's Kaitlin Inglesby was at her stratospheric best in a 2-0 win over Hawaii on Saturday in a second-round NCAA regional game at Husky Softball Stadium. Facing Australian Kaia Parnaby, who began the day tied for the Division I lead in victories with 38, Inglesby (22-7) tossed a two-hitter while striking out a season-high nine batters. She walked ...
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Dozens injured at Appalachian Trail Days parade in Damascus Va.
Dozens of people were injured Saturday when a car in the Appalachian Trail Days parade in Damascus, Va., plowed into the crowd. The car's driver, who was participating in the parade, apparently suffered a medical emergency, Damascus police chief William H. Nunley said. Nine people were transported to hospitals, but none had life-threatening injuries, The Washington Post reported. The car ...
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Harper gets day off with sore left knee
Email SAN DIEGO -- Nationals outfielder Bryce Harper was out of Saturday's lineup against the Padres because of soreness in his left knee. Harper hurt the knee after he banged into the wall Monday against the Dodgers. Besides the knee injury, Harper jammed his left shoulder, suffered a sore abdomen and nausea. He had an MRI on Friday to check on the abdomen and the results came back ...
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Duke to get the spot start on Monday vs. Giants
Email SAN DIEGO -- Nationals manager Davey Johnson has decided that left-hander Zach Duke will start Monday night against the Giants at AT&T Park. Johnson picked Duke over right-hander Craig Stammen because Johnson didn't want to break Stammen's routine as a reliever. Stammen is having another great season in the bullpen. In 11 games, he has a 2.25 ERA. Johnson hasn't been ...
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Todays MLB starting lineups May 18
Below are starting lineups that have been made public by the clubs. A lineup is not official until it is handed to the umpire. Additional lineups will be added as they become available: Arizona Diamondbacks: 1. ...
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Biker killed on U Street identified
Andre Brands, 50, was riding south on 11th Street near the U Street intersection, police said, when he was struck by a car. Brand was not wearing a ...
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Councilman Tommy Wells returns focus to D.C. fire department
A day before Ward 6 Councilman Tommy Wells officially announced he was running for mayor, he undertook what has become a reoccurring role: holding D.C. Fire Chief Kenneth Ellerbe's feet to the ...
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Mitt Romney condemns breach of trust in Washington as controversy reigns
As controversies continue to fester over the IRS, Benghazi and the Justice Department's seizure of reporters' phone records, 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney condemned the government for a "breach of trust" during an interview on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" broadcast Friday night. In each of the three controversies currently gripping Washington, ...
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Southeast student maces others in fight
Police said a group of at least 10 students got into a fight at the school -- located at 34014th Street SE -- then one student pulled out mace and began ...
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Report Obama Trims Afghan War Budget Request
The Reuters news agency quotes an unidentified White House aide as saying the president has decreased his request for funding the war in Afghanistan by 10 percent for the 2014 fiscal year budget. The report says the president reduced his original request from $88.5 billion to $79.4 billion. The White House issued a statement Friday saying the change was made to account for the drawdown of ...
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Man Fatally Shot Inside SE DC Apartment
WASHINGTON (AP) - D.C. police say a 28-year-old man was shot and killed in an apartment blocks away from the Anacostia Metro station in southeast Washington. The shooting occurred Thursday afternoon in the 1200 block of Talbert Street, Southeast. Police say the victim, Charles Garris, was pronounced dead at the scene. He was taken to the medical examiner's office for an autopsy. ...
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Emphasizing Ethics Wells Announces Mayoral Run
The race to be elected Mayor of the District of Columbia in 2014 now has two official participants after Ward 6 Councilmember Tommy Wells officially announced his candidacy Saturday afternoon in Northeast ...
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Smithsonian Asks Public To Help Fund Yoga Exhibit
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Smithsonian is asking for the public to help fund an exhibit about the history of yoga. The first-ever exhibition on the visual history of yoga is scheduled to debut this fall at the Sackler Gallery. Local media reports that on May 29, the Smithsonian will launch an online fundraising campaign that's the first of its time for the institution. The goal is to raise ...
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Washington Signals Dollar Deep Concerns
Over the past month there has been a statistically improbable concurrence of events that can only be explained as a conspiracy to protect the dollar from the Federal Reserve's policy of Quantitative Easing (QE). Quantitative Easing is the term given to the Federal Reserve's policy of printing 1,000 billion new dollars annually in order to finance the US budget deficit by purchasing US ...
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Pentagon approves iPhone Apple products for military use
This picture taken 26 December 2011 shows the Pentagon building in Washington, DC. It is the world's largest office building by floor area. Approximately 23,000 military and civilian employees and about 3,000 non-defense support personnel work in the Pentagon. (AFP/AFP/Getty ...
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Bicyclist Fatally Struck By Car In DC Identified
WASHINGTON (WUSA9) -- The bicyclist who was fatally struck on Thursday by a car has been identified, police say. Andre Brands, 50, was struck by a Nissan Altima on on Thursday as he was traveling south on 11th Street, near the U Street intersection, DC police said. Brand, who was not wearing a helmet, was transported to a local hospital where he died due to his injuries, police said. The ...
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DCTC Yanks Licenses From 2 More Cabbies
Two taxicab drivers have had their licenses suspended indefinitely after they were arrested and charged with simple assault following an altercation earlier this ...
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Slave Cabin to Get Museum Home in Washington
Junior Meggett, 80, in the onetime antebellum slave cabin on Edisto Island, S.C., in which his aunt and uncle lived in the 1940s. He lived in a different but identical ...
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