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Today in History: April 27 04/27/2019 01:05am • Today in History Today is Saturday, April 27, the 117th day of 2019. Today's Highlight in History: On April 27, 1978, 51 construction workers plunged to their deaths when a scaffold inside a cooling tower at the Pleasants Power Station site in West Virginia fell 168 feet to the ground. O How the case against Maria Butina began to crumble 04/25/2019 06:42pm • Maria Butina's case was a headline-grabber from the start. At the outset, prosecutors alleged the covert Russian agent was so intent on infiltrating Republican political groups and organizations like the National Rifle Association that she was even willing to offer sex to do so. Her relationsh Md. Coast Guard officer accused of terror plot wanted to 'murder quietly'  04/24/2019 05:59am • Prosecutors are providing more details about their case against a Coast Guard officer from Maryland accused of plotting a terror attack against prominent Democrats. New filings submitted by federal prosecutors ahead of another detention hearing for 49-year-old Coast Guard Lt. Christopher Hasson, 'We were the first': Filmfest DC remains the OG of Washington film festivals 04/24/2019 12:34am • The nation's capital boasts countless film festivals, but only one can stake a claim as the O.G. The 33rd annual Filmfest DC triumphantly returns as the city's longest-running film festival, screening a collection of 80 films at AMC Mazza Gallerie in Friendship Heights, Landmark E Street C The Easter story helps an outcast preacher find her way back home 04/21/2019 03:08am • The Rev. Barbara Brown Taylor was attending a seminar one day when someone asked her a question that she hasn't been able to forget. "What is the story you are working on that doesn't have an ending yet?" Taylor gave one answer that day but today she has another: The story she can't quite figu Inspired by movie, Md. woman hopes one last billboard will help solve sister's murder 04/19/2019 01:15pm • For the last 23 years, Jenny Carrieri has been haunted by her twin sister’s murder. Jody LeCornu was shot along York Road in Baltimore City, Maryland, but died in Baltimore County, so police there are the ones investigating. She admitted the efforts to find the killer hasn’t just haunted her 20 people, including correctional officers, indicted in Maryland prison smuggling scheme 04/17/2019 04:11pm • Twenty people, including correctional officers, employees and inmates, face charges in a scheme that involved bribes to smuggle contraband, such as drugs and cellphones, into the Maryland Correctional Institution in Jessup, prosecutors said. A federal grand jury indicted the defendants on feder Bottom line: What's next for the Mueller report 04/09/2019 01:29pm • Attorney General William Barr assured members of Congress on Tuesday that he plans to get them the report from Robert Mueller "within a week," along with color-coded redactions and explanations why certain information was not included. But Democratic members of a House panel made it clear they we In final hours, Maryland lawmakers pass prescription drug, UMMS reform, clean energy bills 04/09/2019 09:27am • This content was republished with permission from WTOP’s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for Maryland Matters’ free email subscription today. In a session marked by ailing leaders and an ambitious agenda propelled by a younger, more progressive class of Democratic lawmakers, the Ex-Dem. staffer admits doxing GOP senators attending Kavanaugh hearing 04/05/2019 07:00pm • A former Democratic Senate staffer admits trying to threaten and intimidate several Republican Senators and their families by posting their home addresses and phone numbers online. It's a practice known as "doxing." Personal information belonging to Republicans Lindsey Graham, Orrin Hatch and What to expect when legal sports betting comes to DC 04/04/2019 12:42am • The road to legal sports betting in Washington has progressed fairly quickly over the last few months. Last December, the D.C. Council passed the Sports Wagering Lottery Amendment Act of 2018, which Mayor Muriel Bowser signed in January. The next month, the D.C. Council gave final approval to the Big changes for Virginians possible in ‘veto session’ still shadowed by scandal 04/03/2019 04:30am • Virginia lawmakers return to Richmond on Wednesday for a series of key votes on Gov. Ralph Northam’s vetoes and amendments to bills, ranging from road safety and interstate upgrades, to the budget and elections. At the one-day reconvened session, often called a “veto session," the General Ass 2 arrested in Texas in 2017 Prince William Co. MS-13 murder 04/01/2019 04:03pm • Two more people have been arrested and charged with a Prince William County murder that police believe was gang-related. On Monday, the Prince William County police announced that Jose Turcios-Flores, 25, and Carlos Escobar Salinas, 27, were picked up in Texas in mid-March and extradited to Virgi Child porn suspect detained in US after Ireland extradition 03/27/2019 02:46pm • GREENBELT, Md. (AP) — A man once described by an FBI agent as the world's largest "facilitator" of child pornography will remain held in U.S. custody after his extradition from Ireland, a federal magistrate ruled Wednesday. A federal public defender representing Eric Eoin Marques, 33, told U.S. Managing unconscious bias and talking to kids about race 03/27/2019 12:30am • Stanford University psychology professor Jennifer Eberhardt will never forget the time she boarded a plane with her 5-year-old son. His eyes, wide with excitement, surveyed the cabin for a few minutes before he pointed out a man that he said looked like “daddy.” Other than being the only blac