DISPUTE LEADS TO SHOOTING OUTSIDE WHEATON MALL

(WHEATON MALL LOGO: PHOTO COURTESY OF GOOGLE IMAGES)

LAST NIGHT, A MAN WAS SHOT OUTSIDE OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY'S WESTFIELD WHEATON MALL IN WHAT APPEARED TO BE A GANG DISPUTE.

AFTER THE SHOOTING THE SUSPECTS FLED THROUGH THE MALL'S CROWDED MACY'S DEPARTMENT STORE. AT ABOUT 5 P.M. A GUN POLICE BELIEVE TO BE CONNECTED IN THE EARLIER SHOOTING WAS DISCHARGED IN A MACY'S DRESSING ROOM.

LATER TWO GUNS WERE ALSO FOUND IN A DRESSING ROOM, ACCORDING TO POLICE. AROUND 7 P.M. OFFICERS ARRESTED A 19-YEAR-OLD MAN BELIEVED TO BE CONNECTED WITH THE SHOOTING.

POLICE ALSO REPORT THAT TWO OF THE THREE GUNS FOUND HAD BEEN STOLEN FROM ANOTHER MARYLAND JURISDICTION.

NO SHOPPERS OR POLICE WERE INJURED IN THE INCIDENT.

SOURCE: THE WASHINGTON POST

ELDERLY MAN BADLY BEATEN OUSIDE COLLEGE PARK CHURCH

(HOLY REDEEMER CATHOLIC CHURCH: PHOTO COURTESY OF GOOGLE IMAGES)

IN PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY, AN ELDERLY MAN WAS ROBBED AND BEATEN BADLY WITH A BASEBALL BAT SHORTLY BEFORE A MIDNIGHT MASS LAST NIGHT.

THE MAN, 69, WAS FOUND IN THE PARKING LOT OUTSIDE THE COLLEGE PARK CHURCH AND TAKEN TO A LOCAL HOSPITAL, WHERE HE IS STILL IN CRITICAL CONDITION.

ACCORDING TO SUSAN GIBBS, A SPOKESWOMAN FOR THE ARCHDIOCESE, THE MAN DROPPED HIS WIFE OFF FOR CHOIR PRACTICE AT THE HOLY REDEEMER CATHOLIC CHURCH IN COLLEGE PARK. WHILE PARKING THE CAR HE WAS ATTACKED BY THE ROBBER.

THE SUSPECT IS BELIEVED TO BE A BLACK MALE IN HIS 20S, 5'10 TALL AND 190 POUNDS. THE VICTIM'S NAME HAS NOT YET BEEN RELEASED.

SOURCE: THE WASHINGTON POST

NAVY LAB WORKER GETS 18 MONTHS FOR THEFT

VICTOR PAPAGNO, THE COMPUTER SPECIALIST WHO PLEADED GUILTY TO THEFT OF GOVERNMENT PROPERTY IN OCTOBER WAS SENTENCED YESTERDAY TO 18 MONTHS IN PRISON.

PAPAGNO, 40, STOLE MORE THAN 19,000 PIECES OF COMPUTER EQUIPMENT FROM THE OFFICES OF THE NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY IN SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON. ACCORDING TO AUTHORITIES, PAPAGNO STOLE THE HARDWARE BY TAKING AT LEAST FIVE PIECES A DAY FOR OVER A DECADE IN BOXES.

TO STORE THE HARDWARE, PAPAGNO BUILT A 2,775-SQUARE-FOOT GARAGE. THE NAVY WILL NOW SPEND $150,000 TO INVENTORY THE STASH OF COMPUTER HARDWARE. PAPAGNO'S DEFENSE BLAMED THE THEFT ON MENTAL ILLNESS, INCLUDING OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER.

SOURCE: THE WASHINGTON POST

BREAKING NEWS: WATER MAIN BREAK CAUSING FLOODS IN MONTGOMERY COUNTY

THIS MORNING, A MASSIVE WATER MAIN BREAK HAS CAUSED THE FLOODING OF RIVER ROAD IN MONTGOMERY COUNTY WITH FOUR FEET OF RAPIDLY MOVING WATER.

THE FLOODING TRAPPED MOTORISTS AND CAUSED THE BLOCKING OF A MAJOR ARTERY. ABOUT 12 PEOPLE HAD TO BE RESCUED FROM THEIR VEHICLES AROUND 9 THIS MORNING. ONE WOMAN AND A CHILD TRAPPED IN THEIR SUV HAD TO BE RESCUED BY HELICOPTER.

ACCORDING TO THE WASHINGTON SUBURBAN SANITARY COMMISSION, THE 66 INCH PIPE AT RIVER ROAD AND FENWAY DRIVE RUPTURED SHORTLY BEFORE 8 A.M. THE FLOODING CLOSED RIVER ROAD BETWEEN SEVEN LOCKS ROAD AND BRADLEY BOULEVARD.

SOURCE: THE WASHINGTON POST

SOUTHBOUND I-270 SHUT DOWN

MONTGOMERY COUNTY AUTHORITIES ANNOUNCED THAT ALL SOUTHBOUND LANES OF INTERSTATE 270 NEAR ROUTE 121 WERE CLOSED AS OF 3:05 PM TODAY DUE TO AN ACCIDENT IN WHICH A TRACTOR-TRAILER OVERTURNED.

THE ACCIDENT OCCURRED AROUND 2 PM AND IT TOOK RESCUE WORKERS 45 MINUTES TO GET THE DRIVER OUT OF THE TRUCK. HIS INJURIES ARE THOUGHT TO BE SERIOUS.

NO OTHER VEHICLES WERE INVOLVED.

SOURCE: THE WASHINGTON POST

TEEN GIRL GETS ADULT CHARGES FOR ORDERING HIT ON DAD

A 15-YEAR-OLD GIRL FROM HAGERSTOWN IS NOW BEING CHARGED AS AN ADULT FOR ALLEGEDLY PLOTTING THE STABBING DEATH OF HER FATHER.

ACCORDING TO PROSECUTORS, DANIELLE BLACK, 15, ASKED ONE OF HER MALE SCHOOLMATES TO KILL HER FATHER BECAUSE HE HAD ABUSED HER. BLACK WAS ORIGINALLY CHARGED AS A JUVENILE EARLIER THIS MONTH FOR SOLICITATION OF FIRST DEGREE MURDER OF HER FATHER BILLY LEE BLACK.

AUTHORITIES REPORTED THAT NO SIGNS OF ABUSE WERE DISCOVERED. THE FATHER WAS FOUND DECEASED IN AN ALLEY BEHIND HIS OWN EARLIER THIS YEAR ON HALLOWEEN MORNING.

SOURCE: THE WASHINGTON POST

MONTGOMERY COUNTY OK'S LIGHT RAIL OPTION

IN MONTGOMERY COUNTY, THE PROPOSED "PURPLE" LINE BEING DEVELOPED AS A LIGHT RAIL SYSTEM WAS ENDORSED BY COUNTY TRANSPORTATION PLANNERS EARLIER TODAY.

THE NEW LINE, WHICH IS SUPPOSED TO CONNECT MONTGOMERY AND PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY, IS EXPECTED TO BE 16 MILES LONG WITH UP TO 22 STATIONS INCLUDING LOCATIONS IN SILVER SPRING, THE TAKOMA AND LANGLEY PARK AREAS, AND THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND'S COLLEGE PARK CAMPUS.

TRANSPORTATION PLANNERS ALSO RECOMMENDED THAT THE LINE RUN TRAINS MOSTLY ABOVE GROUND. THE LINE IS STILL IN THE PLANNING PROCESS AND WILL NOT EXIST ANY TIME SOON. HOWEVER, THE PLAN WILL BE REVIEWED BY THE PLANNING BOARD NEXT MONTH.

SOURCE: THE WASHINGTON POST

DC NEW SPEED CAMERAS

DC New Speed Cameras

Merry Christmas: DC Police Deploy New Speed Cameras

D.C. police are deploying several new speed cameras at several locations. Warning citations began Monday, and live citations will begin on Dec. 26.

The new cameras are at the following locations:

-800 block of Eastern Avenue NE
-5500 block of East Capitol Street NE
-2800 block of New York Avenue NE
-5500 block of East Capitol Street SE
-1900 block of Southern Avenue SE
-Southeast Southwest Freeway at Ninth Street entrance ramp SE
-Southeast Southwest Freeway at Eighth Street SE
-3700 block of Southern Avenue SE
-Suitland Parkway nw/b before Firth Sterling Ave SE
-2900 block of Military Road NW
-5300 block of 14th Street NW

****Tina's Comment, most of these cameras are on hills and are going to catch alot of folks so be careful. The police officer sitting in the car yesterday on Eastern Ave about 5pm, well he was hiding in front of this utility truck. And i believe the ones on East Capitol St are by Central Ave.*****

YOU GO PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA!

THANKS MOM

"SO WHAT SOMEONE THROUGH A SHOE AT ME" - GEORGE BUSH

D.C.'S MOST HATED, EVEN OUTSIDE OF THE CITY!

THANKS JAY LOWDER

TEEN STABBED TO DEATH IN COLOMBIA HEIGHTS

YESTERDAY, A 14- YEAR OLD WAS FATALLY STABBED IN THE COLUMBIA HEIGHTS AREA IN NW.

THE RECENT KILLING OF WHO POLICE HAVE IDENTIFIED AS GIOVANNI SANCHEZ, IS THE THIRD KILLING IN THREE DAYS WITHIN A ONE MILE RADIUS. AUTHORITIES BELIEVE THE TEEN WAS KILLED DURING A FIGHT INVOLVING HALF A DOZEN OTHER YOUTHS OR MORE.

THE TEEN WAS FOUND ABOUT 4:30 PM YESTERDAY IN A ROADWAY NEAR 14TH AND NEWTON STREETS NW. THE KILLING WAS THE THIRD SINCE WEDNESDAY NIGHT WHEN DERRELL GOINS, 21, WAS SHOT IN THE ADAMS MORGAN AREA.

SOURCE: THE WASHINGTON POST

S.E. WOMAN FLOWN TO HOSPITAL AFTER DOG ATTACK

(PHOTO: COURTESY OF GOOGLE IMAGES)

A WOMAN IN SOUTHEAST WASHINGTON WAS SEVERELY INJURED YESTERDAY AFTER BEING MAULED BY A DOG, WHICH WAS LATER KILLED BY D.C. POLICE.

ACCORDING TO POLICE, THE WOMAN WAS MAULED AROUND 5 OR 6 PM NEAR THE 1800 BLOCK OF 41ST PLACE SE. AUTHORITIES REPORTED THAT THE WOMAN WAS SEVERELY HURT AND IS BELIEVED TO BE IN HER LATE 70S.

SHE WAS FLOWN BY HELICOPTER TO WASHINGTON HOSPITAL CENTER WITH SERIOUS INJURIES TO HER SCALP AND EAR. TWO DOGS ARE BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEN INVOLVED IN THE ATTACK, ONE INCLUDING A PIT BULL.

SOURCE: THE WASHINGTON POST

MARYLAND RANKS LAST IN HEALTH EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS

ACCORDING TO A STUDY RELEASED BY THE TRUST FOR AMERICA'S HEALTH AND THE ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION, MARYLAND RANKS LAST AMONG STATES NATIONWIDE IN READINESS FOR A HEALTH EMERGENCY.

MARYLAND SCORED A FIVE OUT OF 10 POSSIBLE POINTS FOR HEALTH EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS CAPABILITIES. OTHER STATES THAT TIED WITH MARYLAND INCLUDED ARIZONA, CONNECTICUT, FLORIDA, MONTANA, AND NEBRASKA.

THE DISTRICT AND MORE THAN HALF OF THE OTHER STATES SCORED A SEVEN OR LESS.

SOURCE: THE WASHINGTON POST

BARACK OBAMA ON MEET THE PRESS

BARACK OBAMA ON MEET THE PRESS

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ARLINGTON COACH ADMITS TO CHILD PORN

(Photo courtesy of Google Images.)

ARLINGTON COUNTY YOUTH BASKETBALL COACH, THOMAS "RANDY" WHITE, PLEADED GUILTY IN FEDERAL COURT YESTERDAY TO DOWNLOADING HUNDREDS OF IMAGES OF CHILD PORN.

WHITE, A WASHINGTON LOBBYIST AND LONGTIME DIRECTOR OF THE NOVA UNITED AAU BASKETBALL LEAGUE ADMITTED TO THE U.S. DISTRICT COURT IN ALEXANDRIA THAT THE IMAGES HE DOWNLOADED DID SHOW "BONDAGE AND SADOMASOCHISTIC ACTS" AND SEX BETWEEN PREPUBESCENT BOYS.

WHITE NOW FACES UP TO 20 YEARS IN PRISON. HIS SENTENCING IS SCHEDULED FOR FEB. 27.

SOURCE: THE WASHINGTON POST

FORMER DISTRICT TEACHER INDICTED ON CHILD PORN CHARGE

(Beauvoir School: The National Cathedral Elementary School. Photo Courtesy of Google Images.)

A FORMER THIRD GRADE TEACHER AT AN ELITE PRIVATE DISTRICT SCHOOL WAS INDICTED YESTERDAY BY A FEDERAL GRAND JURY IN MARYLAND ON A CHILD PORNOGRAPHY CHARGE.

THE ALLEGED SUSPECT, ERIC TOTH, 26, IS NOW CONSIDERED A FUGITIVE AND HAS BEEN MISSING SINCE LAST SUMMER. FEDERAL AUTHORITIES HAVE REPORTED THAT THEY FOUND A SUICIDE NOTE IN HIS CAR.

TOTH COULD FACE 15 TO 30 YEARS IN PRISON IF CONVICTED OF THE CHILD PORNOGRAPHY CHARGE. TOTH TAUGHT AT THE BEAUVOIR SCHOOL, LOCATED ON THE GROUNDS OF WASHINGTON NATIONAL CATHEDRAL FOR THREE YEARS. ACCORDING TO REPORTS, ANOTHER TEACHER FOUND A SEXUALLY EXPLICIT PICTURE OF A YOUNG BOY ON TOTH'S CAMERA.

SOURCE: THE WASHINGTON POST

MORE ARRESTS MADE IN FATAL TRINIDAD ATTACK

( Alonzo Robinson: Picture courtesy of Google Images.)

IN THE DISTRICT, POLICE ARE CALLING THE INCIDENT THAT KILLED A 13 YEAR OLD BOY IN TH DISTRICT'S TRINIDAD AREA A RETALIATION FROM ONE NEIGHBORHOOD ON ANOTHER.

IN JULY OF THIS YEAR, FIVE MEN FROM THE KENILWORTH-PARKSIDE AREA BEGIN RANDOMLY SHOOTING PEOPLE IN THE TRINIDAD AREA ON JULY 19TH, DUE TO AN ALLEGED FEUD WITH A GROUP IN TRINIDAD. THE INCIDENT WOUNDED FOUR ADULTS AND KILLED ALONZO ROBINSON.

ROBINSON, WHO LIVED IN ALABAMA, WAS IN WASHINGTON TO VISIT HIS CANCER STRICKEN GREAT-GRANDMOTHER. ROBINSON'S MOTHER AND UNCLE WERE TWO OF THE ADULTS WOUNDED IN THE INCIDENT.

ONE OF THE SUSPECTS, AS PART OF A DEAL WITH PROSECUTORS, PLEADED GUILTY TO SECOND-DEGREE MURDER AND OTHER CHARGES. HE ALSO GAVE DETECTIVES A DETAILED ACCOUNT OF THE INCIDENT.

THE SUSPECTS, ARRESTED TUESDAY AND YESTERDAY WERE IDENTIFIED AS ANTONIO MCALLISTER, 18, AND JOSHUA BENTON, 19. THE FOURTH IS SAID TO BE BENTON'S TWIN BROTHER CHRISTIAN AND THE FIFTH WAS ALLEGEDLY ONLY KNOWN BY NICKNAME.

SOURCE: THE WASHINGTON POST

LAWSUIT SETTLED IN DEATH OF PARALYZED INMATE

(Jonathan Magbie)

IN THE DISTRICT, THE MOTHER OF A QUADRIPLEGIC INMATE WHO DIED IN 2004 DUE TO BREATHING PROBLEMS AT THE D.C. JAIL HAS NOW REACHED FINANCIAL SETTLEMENTS WITH THE D.C GOVERNMENT.

JONATHAN MAGBIE, WHO WAS 27-YEARS OLD WHEN HE DIED, WAS PARALYZED FROM THE NECK DOWN AND USED A MOUTH-OPERATED WHEELCHAIR. MAGBIE DIED FOUR DAYS INTO HIS 10-DAY JAIL SENTENCE FOR ALLEGEDLY POSSESSING MARIJUANA, WHICH HE TOLD AUTHORITIES HE USED TO HELP EASE PAIN BROUGHT ON BY HIS CONDITION.

ACCORDING TO REPORTS, THE JAIL WASN'T EQUIPPED WITH THE VENTILATOR HE NEEDED TO BREATHE AT NIGHT. THE CONTROVERSY EXPOSED HUGE PROBLEMS WITH THE D.C. JAIL SYSTEM AND GREATER SOUTHEAST HOSPITAL.

THE MOTHER, MARY R. SCOTT, FILED THE FEDERAL LAWSUIT IN 2005.

SOURCE: THE WASHINGTON POST