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Washington man convicted in Juneau womans death
Jacob Andrew Mommer, 20, returns to court May 31 for the hearing on the January 2012 slaying of Ashton Ericka-Marie Reyes, the Juneau Empire reported ...
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Man Guilty in DUI Crash That Killed Three
A man who survived a drunk driving crash in which three of his family members were killed spoke out in court Monday. Chris Gordon ...
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Harry Jaffe Vincent Gray weighs a second term as D.C. mayor
In the parallel universe, Mayor Vincent Gray decides one term is not enough, and he decides to run for a second four-year stint. If Gray runs, all the advantages of the incumbent are at his disposal. And despite the federal investigation hanging over his head, he immediately becomes hard to ...
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Salesforce.com launches suite of mobile services for government
Salesforce.com is launching a suite of new mobile services to help federal agencies connect with citizens and employees, FedScoop reports. The new mobile offerings include Rapid Response 311, Mobile Communities for Government, Government Social Command Center and Platform Mobile Services for Government that will help the government connect on any device and any channel, said Dan Burton, the ...
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DISA cancels $45M data contract with Alliance Technology Group
A $45 million sole source contract awarded in April to Alliance Technology Group by the Defense Information Systems Agency has been canceled, according to Nextgov. Under the contract, the Hanover, Md.-based company would store hundreds of billions of satellite and drone imagery files, each packing terabytes of data. However, after the contract was awarded, other vendors responded and based upon ...
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Boeing awarded $61M in defense contracts
Boeing's F/A-18E/F Super Hornet The U.S. Department of Defense awarded Boeing two major contracts valued at $60.6 million, the St. Louis Business Journal reports. One of the Boeing contracts is a $52.9 million modification to a previously awarded contract for the procurement of aircraft armament equipment for F/A-18E/F and EA-18G aircraft. Boeing also won a $7.7 million addition to a ...
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DOD turns to commercial alternative for VAs VistA
Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel has decided the best choice for his department when its comes to electronic health records is the commercial marketplace, rather than adopting the Veterans Affairs Department's own system, VistA, according to Federal News Radio. "A competitive process will allow DOD to consider commercial alternatives that may offer reduced cost, reduced schedule and ...
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Dan Tangherlini moved to permanent role within GSA
Dan Tangherlini is to be picked for the permanent head of the General Services Administration. After having served as the acting administrator for the General Services Administration for just over a year, President Obama may now pick Dan Tangherlini to serve in the role permanently, Federal Computer Week reports. The president announced his intention Wednesday to nominate Tangherlini for the ...
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Half of D.C. houses sell in less than two weeks
The pace of housing sales in the Washington area continues to accelerate, and technology may be part of the reason. Real estate data company Redfin Corp. says 50 percent of listings in the region last month went under contract within two weeks, and 37 percent were under contract within a week. Last month, 210 new listings in Washington area were under contract within 24 hours. The local ...
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Maryland TEDCO honors three Prince Georges County tech companies
Three Prince George's County companies took home honors from the Maryland Technology Development Corp. Three Prince Georges County technology companies took top honors in a Maryland Technology Development Corp. business contest. Remedium Technologies Inc. in College Park, TRX Systems Inc. in Greenbelt and Genesis Engineering Solutions in Lanham were recognized for their innovation, corporate ...
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Washington license plate fee to help pay for wolf kills
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) -- Legislation signed Tuesday by Washington Gov. Jay Inslee adds $10 to the cost of a personalized Washington license plate with the money going to help compensate livestock owners for wolf kills.The legislation was requested by the state Fish and Wildlife Department to reimburse farmers and ranchers who lose animals to the recovering wolf population.State wildlife managers ...
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Coaches best-paid state employees in Washington
OLYMPIA, Wash. — Football and basketball coaches are the top-paid state employees in Washington. University of Washington coach Steve Sarkisian earned $2.7 million last year, followed by Washington State University coach Mike Leach at $2.3 million. The Office of Financial Management recently released the state employee salary list. Third on the list is UW basketball coach Lorenzo Romar ...
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White House visits under microscope as former IRS chief testifies
Rep. Jim Jordan presses former IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman over meetings Shulman attended at the White House during the time that political targeting was said to be taking ...
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2 Washington County high schools get bomb threats
"It was a statement basically that someone may bring a bomb to our building," Jackson said. "We evacuated to the field, and now the high school students have been sent home. We don't deem the threat to be credible. However, as a precautionary reason we did have our buildings swept by the Washington County Bomb Unit. Currently the building is all ...
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NBC4 Holds Telethon Thurs. for Tornado Victims
"We got a lot of requests and questions from viewers asking how they can help," said NBC4 Assistant News Director Matthew Glassman. "This is a true community ...
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Southwest adds Reagan National-Houston nonstop
Southwest Airlines will start a daily nonstop flight from Reagan National Airport to Houston Hobby Airport. Southwest Airlines will start a daily nonstop flight from Reagan National Airport to Houston Hobby Airport, taking over slots given up by Spirit Airlines when it moved its Washington-area flights to BWI/Marshall Airport last year. While it will be one of the longer nonstop flights out of ...
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CEB breaks world record for sandwich making
More than 500 local employees with The Corporate Executive Board made 1,000 turkey-and-cheese sandwiches in less than five minutes, a Guinness record for largest group simultaneously making sandwiches. Arlington-based The Corporate Executive Board Co. is now in the Guinness Book of World Records. Not for corporate consulting or research, but for sandwich making. As part of its companywide ...
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Washington alienated by Tokyo rightists
South Korean President Park Geun-hye's rhetoric proved to have an impressive reach on a recent visit to the US. A series of speeches in Washington caused a panic in Japan, far across the Pacific.The panic stemmed from a declaration at a banquet where Park expressed her willingness to address the North Korea issue in concerted efforts with China and the US after the North suspends its ...
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Amazon Web Services to expand in Fairfax County add 500 IT-focused jobs
FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va. -- (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Governor Bob McDonnell announced today that Amazon Web Services, Inc., (AWS), an Amazon.com company, will expand in Fairfax County and add 500 new jobs to the county economy. Launched in 2006, AWS (@awscloud) designs and offers IT infrastructure services to businesses and government customers in the form of cloud computing, including web ...
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Rockville CPA firm Thompson Associates merging into Santos Postal
Accounting firm Thompson & Associates PC has agreed to merge into Santos, Postal & Co. PC. Both firms are based in Rockville. The deal is expected to close Aug. 1. Terms were not disclosed. Santos, Postal now has a staff of 26, including 16 certified public accountants. Thompson has 10 employees, including six accountants, all of whom will be joining Santos, Postal. Thompson's Rockville ...
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Capital Teas coming to Mosaic
Today brings another retail announcement for Mosaic District in Merrifield: Capital Teas, the Annapolis, Md.-based tea shop with several locations throughout the Washington area, will open in Mosaic this fall, according to Mosaic's Facebook page. Capital Teas has existing locations in Bethesda Row, the Wildwood Shopping Center in Bethesda, Dupont Circle, Georgetown, National Harbor and ...
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Victim IDd in Alexandria Shooting Deputy on Leave
Deputy Craig Patterson, a 17-year veteran with the sheriff's office, got into some sort of dispute with 22-year-old Julian Dawkins on the corner of Lynnhaven Drive and Evans Lane around 12:45 a.m. Wednesday, Alexandria police ...
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D.C. sues feds over $20 million wage ruling
The District is moving a long-running regulatory clash with the U.S. Department of Labor to a courtroom after a series of rulings that threaten to add $20 million in underpaid wages to the cost of a major mixed-use ...
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Suspect in D.C. killings captured in yearlong manhunt
Reynard Cook was captured near State College over the weekend, nearly one year to the day that his girlfriend was slain, May 20, 2012, authorities say. He is awaiting extradition to ...
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The 3-Minute Interview Robert Gebbia organizer of all-night walk for suicide awareness
Robert Gebbia is executive director of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. The organization is holding its Out of the Darkness Overnight Walk in D.C. from the evening of June 1 to the morning of June ...
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