News Archive - April 12, 2010

MPD Seek Public Help To Find Missing Man

D.C. Police are asking the public for help finding a missing person. 35-year-old Paul Lowe was last seen yesterday afternoon leaving his home on the 400 block of Taylor Street, NE. Lowe is described as a light complexioned black man, about 6’2" and 175 pounds. He has a beard, brown eyes and a bal...

Latest Virginia Regional News

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) Virginia State Police are cracking down on speeders on three segments of interstate highways through tomorrow. The agency calls the initiative Operation Air, Land and Speed. The focus is on Interstate 77 outside of Wytheville, Interstate 295 in the Richmond metro area, and Inte...

Neighborhood Businesses Hopeful For Customers During Summit

By Peter Granitz

Business owners near the Convention Center will soon learn whether the nuclear summit will be a boon or a bust for business.

Erroll Brown has owned the Euro Market on 7th and L streets for four years. He’s planning on staying open for business, unlike others in the ne...

Commentary...A Quality, Exemplary Teacher...Aleta Margolis

With many schools back in session, it's officially crunch time because test time is just a few weeks away.

As commentator Aleta Margolis notes, during the past decade, the importance of annual standardized tests has skyrocketed.

Margois is Executive Director of the D.C.-based Center f...

Latest Maryland Regional News

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) The Maryland General Assembly is entering its last day of this year's session with plenty of loose ends to address on high-profile legislation. The session ends at midnight today. The House and Senate still have to work out differences in high-profile initiatives against sex o...

Residents Of Downtown Apartment Complex Take Nuclear Summit In Stride

By David Schultz

McCollough Terrace is a low-income community located just yards away from the Washington Convention Center, where today and tomorrow, nearly two-dozen foreign heads of state will gather.

Like many of her neighbors at McCollough Terrace, Sherelle Courtney is indifferen...

Washington Post Wins Four Awards, Small Va. Daily Wins Public Service Pulitzer

NEW YORK (AP) The Washington Post received four Pulitzers for international reporting on Iraq, feature writing, commentary and criticism.

The Herald Courier of Bristol, Va., a small paper in the coalfields of Appalachia, beat out journalism's powerhouses to win the Pulitzer Prize for public...

Latest D.C. Local News

WASHINGTON (AP) A teenager accused in a fatal shooting believed to have set off a chain of retaliatory violence in southeast D.C. is due back in court today. Nineteen-year-old Sanquan Carter is charged with second-degree murder in the March 22 killing of Jordan Howe.

WASHINGTON (AP) D.C. of...

Public Transportation Routes Change For Nuclear Security Summit

From the Office of the District of Columbia:

(Washington, D.C.) – The Nuclear Security Summit (NSS) will take place from Monday, April 12 to Tuesday, April 13 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center. The District in partnership with its federal partners developed a comprehensive plan...

Md. Senate OKs stronger laws against gang members

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) Maryland Senators have approved legislation to make it easier to prosecute gang members and stiffen penalties against them.

The Senate voted 35-9 Monday to close loopholes in the Gang Prosecution Act of 2007. The current law has resulted in only one guilty plea and not o...

Summit Doesn't Drop Too Many Problems On D.C.

By Rebecca Sheir

The Nuclear Security Summit is underway, and with it comes the closing of major roads, and the rerouting of public transportation. But the city seems to be dealing well with all the disruptions.

It isn't every day you see parts of downtown D.C. riddled with police bar...

"Art Beat" with Stephanie Kaye - Monday, April 12, 2010

(April 12) LECTURE TIME As the District welcomes a host of world leaders this week, it also makes room for a second mayor. Charleston's Joseph P. Riley talks about art in the city at the Kennedy Center tonight at 6:30. The nine-term mayor is recognized as a standard-bearer of urban revitalization...

MD Legislature Kicks The Bay Can Down the Road

By Sabri Ben-Achour

Maryland's General Assembly adjourns it's session today. Despite the everpresent problems with the health of the Chesapeake Bay, it wasn't a big year for environmental legislation.

It's not as if legislators ignored the problem of the Bay this year - they adopted...

Water Taxi In Baltimore Spared In Budget Cuts

By Cathy Duchamp

Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake says she’ll introduce a budget plan today that eliminates a $121-million deficit without police layoffs or cuts to after-school programs. Another project that will be spared the budget ax is a free water taxi service for people who w...

D.C. Neighborhood "Overrun" By Charter Schools

With an emphasis on independence and innovation, charter schools have sprouted up across the District. Now, 57 schools educate more than 27,000 students, and the number is climbing. To meet the demand, charters take root wherever they can - and a lot of their locations don’t look like your tradit...

Teen Charged in Murder that Triggered Chain of Violence

By Meymo Lyons

A judge has found probable cause for the charges against a teenager accused in a murder believed to have triggered a chain of retaliatory violence in southeast D.C.

Nineteen-year-old Sanquan Carter is charged with second-degree murder in the March 22 shooting death of J...

Power Breakfast For April 12, 2010

How civility became news-worthy.

Today - something a little different. I'm joined by CNC reporter Matt Laslo, who recently touched off a wave of discussion in the press and in the blog-o-sphere with a story about something that took place at a town hall gathering in Oklahoma.

Alexandria Considers Charging For Funeral Processions

By Michael Pope

There's only two things you can count on in this world: death and taxes. Both are set to collide in the coming weeks as the Alexandria City Council considers a plan suggested by the Alexandria Police Department to start charging funeral homes for use of off-duty officers use...

Georgetown Student Allegedly Assaulted in Dorm

WASHINGTON (AP) A Georgetown student says she was sexually assaulted in her dormitory.

The incident happened Friday night, according to the student. She told officials that she left her room in Copley Hall and was walking to the basement when a man she did not know started to follow her. Th...

Region Can Shrink Carbon Footprint As It Grows

By Asma Khaled

A new report out this morning shows how developers can cut greenhouse gases, even as the region expands.

The report says the region expects to add 1.2 million people in the next 20 years. But the city also wants to drastically reduce its CO2 emissions. The Coalition for...

The Segregated Past Of Virginia Parks

With warm weather settling in through the region, many people are starting to plan outside activities.

Virginia boasts 35 state parks to explore, but 60 years ago state parks were open to whites only. Lydia Wilson has more on one historian researching ways African-Americans created their ow...

MarylandReporter.com State Roundup April 12, 2010

From the Maryland Reporter website:

SINE DIE The General Assembly's 2010 session concludes today at midnight. The Baltimore Sun takes a look at some of the bills that are awaiting action, including measures that would legalize card gambling in Prince George's County and place ignition inter...

Fenty To Defend Budget, Education Spending In Front Of Council

By Peter Granitz

Mayor Adrian Fenty will testify before the D.C. Council today about his proposed budget. Meanwhile, Council Chairman Vincent Gray says he’ll press Fenty about money for education.

Marlene Ramirez attends Bell Multicultural High school. She says two weeks ago a teacher...