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In Phylicia Barnes murder case, prosecutors say sex video includes victim, alleged killer Dec 29th 2012, 23:58 City prosecutors have filed notice that they intend to play at trial a video that depicts teenage slaying victim Phylicia Barnes "intoxicated and engaging in sexual relations" with her accused killer, his younger brother and her older half sister, court records show. Read full article >> Natwar Gandhi has weathered controversies as D.C. chief financial officer Dec 29th 2012, 23:16 District Chief Financial Officer Natwar M. Gandhi has been called many things in the 12 years he has presided over the city's finances — "Dr. No" and "Chief Fictional Officer," among them. In all, the monikers underscore the array of passions stirred by the widowed grandfather of five as he guided the District from the fiscal abyss of the 1990s to today's more stable footing. Read full article >> Teen dies after being hit by car on New York Avenue Dec 29th 2012, 23:02 A 16-year-old girl from Northwest Washington who was hit while crossing New York Avenue Friday night has died, and police said they are searching for the driver. The accident occurred a few minutes after 6 p.m. at New York Avenue and First Street Northwest. Read full article >> Prince George's County has a shortage of school nurses Dec 29th 2012, 22:19 Caleb Spruill, an honor roll student who suffers from asthma and an autoimmune deficiency, didn't go to school for a week in December. It wasn't because the second-grader was sick. Caleb stayed home because there was no one at his school to administer his medicine properly, his mother, Melody, said. Read full article >> Death of man found in van ruled a homicide Dec 29th 2012, 21:50 This post has been updated. The death of a 19-year-old Virginia man whose body was found in a vehicle that had crashed into a barrier in Vienna on Friday night has been ruled a homicide, according to Fairfax County police. Read full article >> Va. tea parties yet to score statewide victory Dec 29th 2012, 21:26 It happened in Indiana and Texas this year, and in Delaware, Colorado and Nevada in 2010: A tea party-backed candidate upended a party establishment pick for a Republican U.S. Senate nomination. But such an insurgent statewide campaign hasn't yet succeeded in Virginia, and it's not clear when — or if — one will. Read full article >> In Washington area, hoped-for snow disappoints Dec 29th 2012, 19:30 For a moment in the past few days, it looked like a small snowstorm expected for Saturday might bring a winter wonderland, just in time for the new year. But it turned out to be a winter wet instead. Saturday's storm, which began in the early morning hours and continued through about noon, brought less snow and more rain than expected, with snow totals less than an inch in most places throughout the region. Read full article >> Fire kills woman after she went back in her home Dec 29th 2012, 18:58 This post has been updated. A woman in her 80s who had initially escaped a fire in her Greenbelt house Friday night apparently ran back inside to warn others, and died in the blaze, according to a Prince George's County Fire Department spokesman. Read full article >> D.C. police make robbery arrests Dec 29th 2012, 17:25 A 19-year-old man and a juvenile were arrested Thursday evening and charged with robbing two women in separate incidents in Northeast Washington, according to D.C. police. Police said the first incident occurred about 5 p.m. in the 5300 block of James Place NE, a few blocks off Eastern Avenue. Officer Araz Alali, a D.C. police spokesman, said a man approached a juvenile female as she was unloading a car and demanded her keys. Read full article >> Update: Snow, mixed precipitation exit region with little accumulation Dec 29th 2012, 17:00 Noon Update: The back edge of the snow has reached the District where big fat flakes are falling sometimes mixed with rain and sleet. Southwest of town, precipitation has ended. Over the next 30 to 60 minutes, precipitation will exit the region entirely. Man suspected in robbery of two banks Dec 29th 2012, 16:48 A gray-haired man who carries a cane allegedly robbed two banks in downtown Washington before being arrested Friday morning as he tried to make his escape aboard a Metro train, according to the D.C. police and the FBI. Read full article >> D.C. police release video of men near shooting Dec 29th 2012, 16:29 D.C. police have released a video showing four men possibly linked to a shooting earlier this week in Southeast Washington that left a man critically wounded. The shooting occurred Wednesday about 3:30 p.m. at 14th and K streets Southeast, two blocks south of the Potomac Avenue Metro. The video released by police shows four men getting onto an escalator at the Eastern Market Metro station in Capitol Hill. At least two of the men are running and the others appear to be in a hurry. Officer Araz Alali, a D.C. police spokesman, said the suspected gunman was seen in a black Pontiac car that was later found abandoned in the 1000 block of South Carolina Avenue SE. Alali said the car had been stolen from Prince George's County. Read full article >> Two men seen walking near Capitol Hill killing sought Dec 29th 2012, 15:59 D.C. police searching for the killers of a 28-year-old accountant who was fatally shot near his home in Capitol Hill on Christmas Eve are seeking the public's help in identifying two men captured on video near the incident. Read full article >> Maryland basketball still tinkering with rotation heading into Delaware State game Dec 29th 2012, 00:59 The time may ultimately come for the Maryland basketball team when the rotation dwindles, when tougher ACC foes arrive and Coach Mark Turgeon begins redistributing playing time. Through 11 nonconference games, the Terrapins have fielded the same starting lineup nine times, featuring three sophomores, one junior and one senior. Read full article >>

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