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.*****

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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

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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