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DDOT van collides with Home Depot van in NW
8/11/11 5:51 PM
A District Department of Transportation van collided with a Home Depot rental van in NW Thursday.
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Musonda Mulenga arrested in 2010 slaying of Michaeldoen Talley
8/11/11 3:31 PM
Authorities arrested a 25-year-old man in connection with 2010 homicide in NE D.C.
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Streets closed in SE after gas line rupture
8/11/11 11:36 AM
Authorities are closing some streets in SE D.C. after a construction worker ruptured a gas line.
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D.C. crime statistics show drop in homicides, robberies
8/11/11 5:18 AM
City officials say Washington has seen a drop in homicides and robberies this year, but new statistics show a 3 percent overall increase in total crime.
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Power outages reported near National Mall
8/10/11 4:52 PM
Multiple intersections are in the dark due to power outages at 17th Street and Constitution Avenue near the Mall.
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Budget deficit, debt supercommittee members named
8/10/11 11:35 AM
Members of the powerful new committee responsible for coming up with a plan to reduce the federal budget deficit were named.
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Man falls down embankment in Georgetown
8/10/11 9:29 AM
A man was rescued after falling down an embankment near water's edge in Georgetown.
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Charles Gittens, first black Secret Service agent, dies at 82
8/9/11 9:38 PM
Charles L. Gittens became the first black special agent in 1956 in the Charlotte, N.C. office. He retired from the agency in 1979.
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Eleanor Holmes Norton job fair attracts thousands of job seekers
8/9/11 6:31 PM
More than 4,000 job seekers flooded the Convention Center in downtown D.C. Tuesday for Eleanor Holmes Norton's annual job fair, which she said attracted record numbers this year.
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Body recovered from Potomac River near Hains Point
8/11/11 4:17 PM
Police are recovering a body from the Potomac River near Hains Point.
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Dwight Gaiter fatally stabbed in NE D.C.
8/11/11 3:17 PM
MPD detectives are investigating a fatal stabbing in the 400 block of 56th Street NE.
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Suspect sought in NW armed carjacking
8/11/11 9:03 AM
D.C. police are investigating an armed carjacking in Northwest.
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Progressive Baptists remember Dr. King
8/10/11 6:46 PM
You might call them Martin Luther King’s Baptists.
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D Street two stabbed in SE D.C.
8/10/11 3:43 PM
Two females – ages unknown – were stabbed Wednesday afternoon in SE D.C.
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Duke Ellington School of the Arts receives $17.2 million endowment
8/10/11 10:02 AM
After struggling to make ends meet for years, the Duke Ellington School of the Arts, the District's only school of its type, received a $17.2 million endowment from the Annie B. Casey Foundation.
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Suspects arrested in D.C. drug bust due in court
8/10/11 5:50 AM
More than a dozen people indicted in a drug trafficking probe are due in court.
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D.C. lesbian attack: Suspect arrested as internal investigation continues
8/9/11 6:41 PM
An arrest has been made in connection with the violent attacks on lesbians in Columbia Heights who said that police wouldn't even write up police reports on the incidents.
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Lanier demotes D.C. police special operations Commander Hilton Burton
8/9/11 2:04 PM
The commander of the special operations division for the District of Columbia police department says he's been demoted.
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