Search

The story of Ali Shukri Amin: How a Virginia teen came to support ISIL 09/13/2015 10:48am • WASHINGTON -- “All rise,” said the bailiff as Judge Claude M. Hilton entered his courtroom in Alexandria, Virginia on a late August morning. Seventeen-year-old Ali Shukri Amin was being sentenced for providing material support to a terror organization. Everyone, including Amin and more than t Column: Deflategate debacle proves Roger Goodell has to go 09/03/2015 10:19pm • WASHINGTON — Roger Goodell has never been fit to run a multibillion dollar enterprise undergoing as much transformative change as the NFL. But the course of events that culminated in this week’s damaging ruling in a New York courtroom prove that the league cannot afford to move forward with Good U.Md. law school offers class on Freddie Gray 08/28/2015 04:40pm • WASHINGTON — More than 100 University of Maryland law students are signing up for a new course offered this fall entitled, "Freddie Gray's Baltimore: Past, Present and Moving Forward." The class started with a challenge from the dean of the Carey School of Law to forward the community conve 'Wire' creator David Simon talks 'Show Me a Hero' 08/25/2015 02:22pm • By Marcelo Rochabrun, ProPublica Aug. 21, 2015, 10:41 a.m. David Simon's new HBO miniseries "Show Me a Hero," which premiered last Sunday, is the harrowing tale of a hopeless battle. Based on a nonfiction book of the same title 2013 written by former New York Times reporter Lisa Belkin 2013, th Former Va. gov. seeks prison reprieve from Supreme Court 08/20/2015 11:45am • WASHINGTON — With the threat of prison looming, former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to allow him to remain free while he appeals his corruption conviction to the high court. McDonnell's defense team filed the emergency stay request hours after the Fourth Circuit 3 more charged in connection with Lyon sisters probe 08/07/2015 06:14pm • WASHINGTON — Three more people have been charged in connection with the case of two Montgomery County sisters who disappeared in 1975. Leslie Engleking was charged with perjury and Amy Welch and Gladys Stangee were charged with obstruction of justice in the case of the rape and murder of 12-ye Police chief questions why shooter in Md. murder-suicide was not in jail 08/05/2015 10:57pm • GAITHERSBURG, Md. -- Montgomery County's police chief wants to know why a man who carried out a murder-suicide in Germantown on Tuesday was not in jail. Police say following an argument in a car at a gas station at the corner of Routes 118 and 355, 42-year-old Johnnie Perkins shot 34-year-old Sha Leaders meet in D.C. to discuss uptick in violent crime across the country 08/04/2015 12:04am • WASHINGTON — Police chiefs, mayors and other leaders from some of the biggest cities in the country held an urgent meeting in D.C. on Monday to talk about a collective increase in crime and what can be done about it. A survey of 35 major American cities found, on average, they've seen an almost Rabbi's prison sentence upheld for recording women at ritual bath 07/31/2015 05:12pm • WASHINGTON — The D.C. rabbi convicted of secretly video-recording 52 women preparing for a ritual bath has had his sentenced upheld in D.C. Superior Court. Barry Freundel, 63, was sentenced in May for the surreptitious recording of women at Georgetown's Kesher Israel Synagogue. He was given 45 Modern Slavery: No One Knows the Extent 07/27/2015 08:00pm • No one knows the number. That's what's so scary. It could be more than at any time in human history. It might be less (though that's doubtful). What is true is that there are millions who are trapped, with virtually no recourse. And very few leaders are even paying attention, much less actively do Confederate statue in Rockville vandalized 07/27/2015 05:44pm • ROCKVILLE, Md. — Vandals have defaced a Confederate statue that has come under scrutiny in recent weeks as the community debates whether to remove the monument from county-owned land in Rockville. The spray paint damage to the monument was discovered Monday morning, Rockville police say. Montgomery County considers forming mental health court 07/22/2015 10:29am • ROCKVILLE, Md. — Montgomery County has formed a task force to investigate the possibility of opening a mental health court that would focus on keeping mentally ill people from offending again after they have committed a crime. "There is just such a profound need for alternative ways to deal wit Obama and Boehner Are Right to Call for Criminal Justice Reform 07/16/2015 08:00pm • Speaking Thursday in Philadelphia, President Barack Obama tried to impress on the NAACP, the nation's oldest civil rights organization, the importance of addressing the problem that "in too many places, black boys and black men, Latino boys and Latino men experience being treated differently under t Murder charges filed in Lyon sisters' disappearance 07/15/2015 11:30pm • WASHINGTON — A convicted sex offender has been indicted on first-degree murder charges for the deaths and disappearance of two sisters who went missing in Montgomery County more than 40 years ago, but the charges offer few answers for a community that has never forgotten the girls' story. Lloyd Former FBI agent who stole heroin sentenced to 3 years 07/09/2015 05:40pm • UPDATE: July 9, 2015 5:40 p.m: A judge sentenced a former FBI agent to three years in prison Thursday for stealing heroin from bags of evidence and using the drugs. Also. U.S. District Court Judge Thomas Hogan ordered Matthew Lowry have two years of supervised release, a $15,000 fine, and a $5,4