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May 26, 2009 - Recent years have seen a proliferation of criminal street gangs in Northern Virginia. But local governments there have been working together do something about the problem.
Michael Pope reports...
May 26, 2009 - Some parents of children or teens living with depression, Attention Deficit Disorder, Bipolar Disorder or other emotional, behavioral and mental health challenges fail to seek help because they are embarrassed. Commentator Celia Serkin says that shouldn't be the case. Serkin is Executive Director of the Montgomery County Federation of Families for Children's Mental Health.
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May 26, 2009 - People who have been severely traumatized often never fully recover. Orlando Tisum knows that. He is a survivor of torture and he has dedicated his life to helping others like himself.
Alexis Kenyon reports...
May 26, 2009 - (Through July 19) THE DAVINCI CODE OF BALTIMORE Prayers in Code at The Walters Art Museum in Baltimore includes a look at holy books of the Middle Ages through July 19th. These "Books of Hours" were common tools for private devotion as well as important status symbols carried by fashionable ladies and wealthy bibliophiles. Along with coded prayers, the exhibit explores patronage at the court of King Francis I from 1494 to 1547, a time when the controversies over humanism, reformation and orthodoxy shaped the intellectual life of discerning patrons.
(May 27-June 21) A SLEEPING COUNTRY Round House Theatre presents A Sleeping Country opening tomorrow night and running through June 21st at the Bethesda theater. Find out how hilarious insomnia can be as a sleepless New Yorker journeys to Venice in search of a distant cousin suffering the same malady. This is one dreamy comedy.
(May 26) WHERE ARE YOU GOING, WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN? Trevor Young explores the power of the ordinary in paintings and drawings in Non-Places, on display at Flashpoint Gallery in Northwest D.C. through June 6. The show commutes through the places and spaces of business travel from cheery airports to non-descript hotel rooms.
(May 26) BREAK UP TO MAKE UP The band MakeupBreakup hits the stage at The Red and the Black tavern off H Street Northeast tonight at 9. Down in D.C. from Providence, Rhode Island, MakeupBreakup features electronic pop with a post-punk sound.
The "DaVinci Code of Baltimore" runs through July 19th, 2009.
Courtesy of: The Walters Art Museum
May 26, 2009 - A doctor from Falls Church, Va., survived a helicopter crash in New Hampshire on Monday. Officials say high winds may have been the cause of the helicopter crashing in New Hampshire's Lake Winnipesaukee.
Glenn Tonnesen, the doctor from Falls Church, Va., was piloting the helicopter. He and his three passengers made it safely to shore.
Jonathan Wilson reports...
May 26, 2009 - Members of Congress travel abroad. Meanwhile, back home Republicans meet in Pittsburgh to talk energy policy, and
labor unions pick up lobbying efforts for legislation to make it easier to organize in the workplace.
Sara Sciammacco reports...
May 26, 2009 - Baltimore's school system is hoping to double the number of teachers working in the system through the Teach for America program over the next two years. Teach for America sends thousands of recent college graduates into public schools around the country. And Baltimore City Schools chief Andres Alonso wants the organization to put 150 first-year teachers in Baltimore classrooms for the next two years.
Alonso tells The Baltimore Sun that some Teach for America educators stay on beyond their 2-year commitments and play integral roles in school reform.
Teach for America will need $3.8 million to train and support that many first-year teachers, and the program is $500,000 short. Alonso is trying to make that happen before a June deadline.
Rebecca Blatt reports...
May 26, 2009 - Local Democrats are praising Judge Sonia Sotomayor, President Obama's pick for nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Matt Bush reports...
May 26, 2009 - Two former correctional officers in Maryland have pleaded guilty to assaulting an inmate. Twenty-three-year-old Timothy Mellott of Woodbridge, Va., and 29-year-old Lucas Kelly of Frostburg, Md., had already been fired from the Roxbury Correctional Institution near Hagerstown. This morning both pleaded guilty to one count of second-degree assault against inmate Kenneth Davis. The maximum penalty is 10 years in prison, but no date has been set for sentencing. Prosecutors say both men have agreed to testify at the trials of seven other former officers charged with assaulting Davis. Meanwhile, hearings are scheduled this afternoon for six different officers charged with assaulting inmates at a state prison near Cumberland.
Matt McCleskey has more...
May 26, 2009 - Most local leaders are pleased Judge Sonia Sotomayor is the President's pick for the Supreme Court.
Kavitha Cardoza reports...
May 26, 2009 - D.C. City Council members find varied meaning in the California Supreme Court's decision to uphold Proposition 8 -- the state's voter-approved ban on gay marriage.
David Klatt reports...
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