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Man who painted swastikas on Va. Jewish center gets 21 months in jail
Dylan Mahone of Annandale pleaded guilty to spray-painting racist graffiti on both the center and a church as well as to posting anti-Semitic fliers on a community college campus last year.
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Food safety violations at Nats Park and FedEx Field, ESPN report says
An ESPN investigation of food-safety inspections at professional baseball, football, basketball and hockey venues determined Nationals Park and FedEx Field ranked among those with the highest violation rates in the country.
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Bond denied for DC priest charged with child sex abuse
A judge on Thursday ordered the Rev. Urbano Vazquez, a D.C. priest accused of sexually abusing parishioners, to remain in a local jail cell until trial despite an offer from a robed friar to ensure Vazquez would have no contact with children at the Pittsburgh-area friary where he had been staying.
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Facing deportation, mother of 3 granted sanctuary in Bethesda church
Last week, immigration officials ordered a 40-year-old mother of three to return to her native El Salvador. But Rosa Gutierrez Lopez, who fled from El Salvador in 2005, was granted sanctuary in a Bethesda, Maryland church.
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Child sex victim was afraid to report DC priest because ‘his family had a witch in it’
Charging documents allege a D.C. Catholic priest — charged with sexual misconduct with three parishioners — preyed on the fears of an 11-year-old-girl and sexually abused her for an entire year.
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Uncertainty, trial delays pain parents of U.Md. murder, hate victim
For the parents of newly-commissioned U.S. Army Lieutenant Richard Collins III, the pain hasn’t stopped since he was stabbed to death May 20, 2017, while visiting University of Maryland — and the possibility of more delays makes matters worse.
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DC priest accused of touching 3 girls waives hearing; case sent to grand jury
The Rev. Urbano Vazquez is accused of inappropriately touching three teenage parishioners in May 2015 at the church. So far he’s been charged with one count.
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30 years later, groundbreaking book ‘Banned in DC’ still reverberates
Thirty years after the release of a groundbreaking book about D.C.’s hardcore punk scene, its author says some of the messages are as resonant today as when the book first came out.
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They’re coming: Loudoun Co. warns of invasive spotted lanternfly
An invasive insect that feeds on more than 70 plants will likely soon be found on Loudoun County grape and hops vines and fruit trees. A Virginia horticulturist says, “I don’t think we can prevent it.”
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Loudoun Co. targets stray gunfire incidents
After at least eight incidents of gunfire hitting homes since May, the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors is considering ways to lower the risk — but lawmakers have different views on how to accomplish the goal.
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Closing arguments due in Charlottesville car crash murder trial
Closing arguments are expected Thursday in the murder trial of James Alex Fields, who is charged with driving his car into a group of counter-protesters during the August 2017 white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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James Alex Fields shows remorse, scorn after fatal Charlottesville car crash
Jurors heard James Alex Fields tell very different stories in describing the fatal crash that killed counter-protester Heather Heyer during the August 2017 white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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Prosecutors use Hitler image texted to mother in James Alex Fields murder trial
Prosecutors hope to use a text exchange between James Alex Fields and his mother, in a murder trial related to the 2017 Charlottesville white nationalist rally.
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Facebook blocks reporter’s meme post in Charlottesville car murder case
Facebook blocked a Charlottesville reporter who posted an Instagram meme used by murder suspect James Alex Fields in the months before the 2017 white nationalist rally.
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Judge rules Md. mother incompetent, notes case ‘coming up on 5 years’
While going along with doctors’ conclusions that Catherine Hoggle remains incompetent to stand trial for the murder of her two young children, a Montgomery County judge noted “we’re coming up on five years” and shortened the period before her next review.
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