By Andrea Noble - The Washington Times
Authorities have made an agreement not to prosecute a Northwest D.C. man who used his unregistered handgun to shoot and kill a pit bull in order to stop it from mauling a child in his neighborhood. Published May 19, 2013 Comments
By Luke Rosiak and Jeffrey Anderson - The Washington Times
Washington, D.C., has failed to remove from its voting rolls as many as 13,000 former residents who years ago moved to Prince George’s County and cast ballots there, making fraud by voting in two jurisdictions as easy as going to the polls in their old neighborhoods, The Washington Times found in a review of records. Published May 19, 2013 Comments
By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times
Virginia Republicans will put up an unquestionably conservative ticket in the fall elections, a prospect delighting the party’s base and presenting a crystal-clear contrast with Democrats in what is likely to be the marquee election of 2013. Published May 18, 2013 Comments
By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times
The U.S. Capitol Black Police Association is staging a protest on Tuesday against what members decry as a hostile and discriminatory work environment. Published May 20, 2013 Comments
By Deborah Simmons - The Washington Times
Here’s another feather for the cap of advocates who want to establish solid lines that link actual teaching to actual learning. Published May 19, 2013 Comments
By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times
Chesapeake Bishop E.W. Jackson, who mounted an unsuccessful run for U.S. Senate last year, emerged the wire-to-wire winner in the race for the GOP nomination for Virginia’s lieutenant governor at the state GOP’s nominating convention Saturday. Published May 19, 2013 Comments
By Meredith Somers - The Washington Times
A Sterling woman was arrested this weekend on charges related to a shooting death of her husband, a police officer, the Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office said. Published May 19, 2013 Comments
By Andrea Noble - The Washington Times
Prospects that the District will become the first jurisdiction in the nation to require gun owners to purchase liability insurance were dampened Thursday when Mayor Vincent C. Gray made known that he does not support the proposed legislation. Published May 16, 2013 Comments
By Andrea Noble - The Washington Times
A Silver Spring man is charged with attempted murder after police said he shot another man while high on PCP and then climbed naked onto a fire truck parked in a busy Calverton shopping center. Published May 16, 2013 Comments
By Meredith Somers - The Washington Times
Gun control advocates in Maryland were bracing for an inevitable challenge to a law giving the state some of the strictest weapons prohibitions in the nation, even as they gathered Thursday to applaud Gov. Martin O’Malley for signing the bill he shepherded through the General Assembly. Published May 16, 2013 Comments
By Andrea Noble - The Washington Times
A national movement to grant more teens the right to vote scored its first victory this week with the passage of legislation in Takoma Park, to lower the voting age in municipal elections to 16. But momentum continued Wednesday as advocates in Massachusetts spoke at the State House in favor of allowing 17-year-olds to vote. Published May 15, 2013 Comments
By Meredith Somers - The Washington Times
Metro officials on Wednesday said they had ruled out track conditions as a potential cause for a fire under a train at the Silver Spring station and were turning their focus to the train car itself. Published May 15, 2013 Comments
By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times
With a slew of candidates who many in Virginia still don't know much about, the wide open contest for the Republican nomination to be the state's next lieutenant governor may actually come down to style over substance. Published May 16, 2013
By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times
Virginia Attorney General Kenneth T. Cuccinelli II will formally accept the Republican nomination for governor Saturday, but he'll stand alone at the top of the GOP with neither the man he hopes to succeed nor his onetime rival for the nomination in Richmond to help him unify the party. Published May 16, 2013
By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times
A retired postal worker from Woodbridge, Va., must be the luckiest man alive, winning the lottery four times in the past few years for a total pot of $2.025 million. Published May 15, 2013
