Author: Matthew Barakat
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Bill to help relocate Washington Capitals, Wizards sails through 1st Virginia legislative hearing
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Legislation underpinning a plan to relocate the NBA’s Washington Wizards and NHL’s Washington Capitals across the Potomac River to northern Virginia has easily cleared an early hurdle in the state legislature
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Heard testifies she was assaulted by Depp
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FAIRFAX, Va. • Amber Heard said she knew she should leave Johnny Depp the first time he hit her, but she couldn’t bring herself to do it. “I knew I couldn’t just forgive him, right, because that means it will happen again. Like, I’ve seen the health class videos,” Heard told jurors through tears as…
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Navy medic shoots 2 US sailors; is stopped, killed on base
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FREDERICK, Md. • A Navy medic shot and wounded two U.S. sailors at a military facility Tuesday, then fled to a nearby Army base where security forces shot and killed him, police and Navy officials said. Authorities said they had yet to determine what drove 38-year-old Fantahun Girma Woldesenbet to open fire at the facility,…
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‘American Taliban’ John Walker Lindh to be released
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ALEXANDRIA, Va. • John Walker Lindh, the young Californian who became known as the American Taliban after he was captured by U.S. forces in the invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, is set to go free after nearly two decades in prison. But conditions imposed recently on Lindh’s release, slated for Thursday, make clear that…
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Ex-Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort guilty of 8 charges
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Paul Manafort, the longtime political operative who for months led Donald Trump’s winning presidential campaign, was found guilty of eight financial crimes Tuesday in the first trial victory of the special counsel investigation into the president’s associates. A judge declared a mistrial on 10 other counts the jury could not agree on.…
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Manafort lawyer: ‘So many lies’ Gates can’t keep up
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ALEXANDRIA, Va. • In blistering questioning, a defense lawyer accused the protege of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort of being immersed in “so many lies” he can’t remember them all, as he tried to undermine the credibility of the government’s star witness in Manafort’s fraud trial. Defense lawyer Kevin Downing began his cross-examination of…
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Maryland paper’s staff reports through grief after 5 slain
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save ANNAPOLIS, Md. — The grieving and the reporting sort of jumbled together for staffers at The Capital Gazette on Thursday night, but they were determined to put out the next day’s edition. Journalists with the Annapolis-based daily huddled under a covered parking deck of the…
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Widow of workplace shooting victim says he feared co-worker
WILMINGTON, Del. — The widow of a man killed in a workplace shooting in Maryland said Thursday that her husband was so concerned about the gunman’s explosive temper that he brought it up in church prayer sessions. Bayarsaikhan Tudev was one of three people shot and killed Wednesday at a granite manufacturer in Edgewood, Maryland. …
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Federal judge tosses 2 life sentences for D.C. sniper Lee Boyd Malvo, orders new sentencing hearings
McLEAN, Va. (AP) — A federal judge on Friday tossed out two life sentences for one of Virginia’s most notorious criminals, sniper Lee Boyd Malvo, and ordered Virginia courts to hold new sentencing hearings. In his ruling, U.S. District Judge Raymond Jackson in Norfolk said Malvo is entitled to new sentencing hearings after the U.S.…
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Police: Fake news story led gunman to popular D.C. pizzeria
WASHINGTON — The bizarre rumors began with a leaked email referencing Hillary Clinton and pizza parties. It morphed into fake online news stories about a child sex trafficking ring operating out of a popular Washington, D.C., pizza joint. On Sunday, it culminated in violence when police say a North Carolina man fired a rifle inside…