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October 08, 2008 - The last defendant charged in a nearly $50 million embezzlement scheme at the D.C. tax office has pleaded guilty to mail fraud, conspiracy to commit money laundering and other charges. Jayrece Turnbull is the niece of Harriette Walters, the mastermind of the thefts and a former manager in the tax office.
Meymo Lyons reports...
October 08, 2008 - A Maryland senate committee is pouring over a new report on state police surveillance powers. The report, released last week, was commissioned in response to state police surveillance of anti-war and anti-death penalty demonstrators in 2005 and 2006. That undercover work led to 53 people being documented as terrorists. State police superintendent Terrance Sheridan says those powers were not needed for the work that was done.
Sheridan was not the superintendent at the time. Timothy Hutchens was, and he said police wanted to know whether any demonstrators would try to disrupt an upcoming execution of a state inmate. The 53 people in question are being contacted by police, and will have their records in the case purged.
Matt Bush reports...
October 08, 2008 - Washington ponders where to go next on the bailout and the economy.
Todd Zwillich reports Power Breakfast from Capitol News Connection...
October 08, 2008 - Researchers say the health of children who live in the Washington region is directly related to their parents` education and income. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Commission To Build A Healthier America says that as the income and level of education of parents rise, the health of their children improves. The District's infant mortality rates is among the worst nationally.
Kat Glass reports...
October 08, 2008 - Police in Baltimore have released video they say may show at least one of the people who shot and killed a former city councilman. The images are from cameras at the Northwood Plaza shopping center. They were captured minutes before former Councilman Kenneth Harris was shot and killed during a robbery at a nighclub. Three men are visible and one appears to be holding a Halloween skeleton mask that is similar to one found at the scene. Police say the gun used in the shooting may have been used in a crime this year at a nearby gas station. Investigators also say the images are being enhanced at a crime lab.
Bill Redlin reports...
October 08, 2008 - Over the next few months, Virginia's Lieutenant Governor Bill Bolling and his wife, Jean Ann, will be promoting weight loss and healthy-living initiatives across the state. He has issued a challenge to all Virginians to join him in a new effort to fight heart disease.
Tommie McNeil reports...
October 08, 2008 - (Oct 8-Nov 9) INTELLIGENCE Kenneth Cameron's play Intelligence opens at Rep Stage in Columbia, Maryland, tonight at 7:30pm. This riveting story tells the tale of a powerful leader challenged by an idealistic young writer, as the lives of others hang in the balance.
(Oct 9, 16, 23 & 30) THURSDAY NIGHT GROOVE SERIES Joe's Movement Emporium brings the Thursday Night Groove Series to the up-and-coming Gateway Arts District in Mount Rainier, Maryland, through October 30th. Featuring a host of acclaimed musicians, dancers and other performers, the grooves include the political folk duo emma's revolution, the West African drumming and dance fusion of Farafina Kan (October 16th), performance art and modern dance of The Playground (October 23rd) and Virgin Island-based roots reggae legends Bambu Station (October 30th).
(Through Nov 16) A FOOL FOR LOVE Classika Theater performs pantomime for preschoolers in A Classical Fool at its theater in Arlington, Saturdays and Sundays at 12:30pm through November 16th. This silent story features The Fool, a good meaning but bumbling gent who stumbles across a beautiful woman and falls madly in love - but interfering interlopers who have their own designs on the beauty will do anything to thwart The Fool's pursuits.
October 08, 2008 - Children under 4 should not be given over-the-counter cough and cold remedies- that change is coming straight from the drug companies that make them.Problems with the meds send some 7,000 young children to hospital emergency rooms each year As Meymo Lyons explains its a concession to pediatricians who doubt the drugs do much good and worry about risks.....
October 08, 2008 - A Frederick city police officer has shot and killed an armed suspect in the second fatal shooting by a police officer this year. Officer Daniel Sullivan has been with Frederick police for four-years. Hes on administrative leave until an internal investigation into the death of Bradley J. Bailey is finished. Bailey was killed after HE shot another man in the shoulder, police say. Bailey then pointed a gun at Sullivan who was responding to the scene, says a police department report.
In July, officer Frank Rucci shot David J. Bauman of Frederick after Bauman approached Ruccis patrol car and refused to drop a hammer. A grand jury has yet to consider evidence in that case.
Stephanie Kaye reports...
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