Saturday March 30, 2013 Sunny and Cool

U.S. alarmed by North Korea’s rhetoric and bellicose statements…Rock Creek park is currently has a planned and controlled deer kill underway overseen by the National Park Service…Navy Seal killed in training exercise in Arizona…Louisiana Health Secretary resigns amidst allegations of steering Medicaid contracts to a former company where he was employed…Oil industry and GOP criticize EPA’s new gasoline rules and this further emphasizes the debate on global warming and environmental conservation...Md. to raise gas tax by 20 cents…the death of Patricia L. Horne, 20 from Greenwood, Mississippi, who died in Afghanistan in August just a short time after her deployment, remains under investigation…Aaron Battalion leaving District based Living Social…school closings in DC said to be discriminatory in lawsuit…It was all good just a week ago, but then Ben Carson had to make this mistake: Equating pedophilia with gay marriage does nothing for your career....and the beat goes on…

Friday March 29, 2013 Sunny and Cool

EPA is requiring cleaner gas….Newtown shooter’s home found to be an arsenal with 1700 rounds of ammunition…two rifles, another pistol and over 20 knives ranging in size from pocket knives to 28 inch Samurai sword…New York City legislators, labor advocates and business leader struck a deal on a requirement that business of various sizes must provide at least 5 paid sick days to employees. This is of a concern in restaurant, stores, and other businesses where sick employees come to work and potentially spread illness to general public…Army Veteran is being charged with conspiracy for fighting alongside a Syrian rebel group linked to al-Qaeda…Eric Harroun, 30 known to Syrians as “the American” using rocket propelled grenades (RPG) Harroun reportedly took responsibility for shooting down military helicopters….Sprint won’t use Chinese gear in network after merger with Sofbank as concerns over spying heighten…Blackberry posts profit but problems remain as they lose ground to Apple Iphone and Google Androids…Tommy Wells grills Fire Chief Ellerbe and reminds him that his job may be on the line…D.C. Budget would remake the Martin Luther King Library…Gray’s budget also increases per pupil spending in DC Public School System…Mechanicsville woman ordered to pay restitution for collecting disability for over six years and concurrently working as a fitness trainer demonstrating exercises and use of equipment…video released in shooting of downtown nightclub on March 21 at Balletto…NCAA tourney down to 16…and the beat goes on….

Thursday March 28, 2013 Sunny and cool

Justices likely to rule against DOMA or the defense of marriage act…North Korea threatens U.S. bases…James Holmes will plead guilty to Colorado theater shooting…Jared Loughner’s behavior said erratic prior to shooting of Gabby Giffords in Arizona...Sharpshooters to hold a control deer hunt in Rock Creek park…Federal Investigators in Northern California used a device to track cellphone texts and calls…creating a tower that intercepts calls and data…NRA calls Obama King Pinnochio cited his 2008 statements that he wouldn’t take away peoples guns or rifles…this statement predated Colorado, Arizona, and Connecticut shootings…Truancy law in DC removes jail time for parents…report issued on death of man with Down’s Syndrome in movie theater…whereby he died at the hands of 3 off duty officers working as security guards….and the beat goes on….

Wednesday March 27, 2013 Sunny and cool

Supreme Court hears second day of same sex marriage...supreme court police cannot use drug sniffing dogs without warrant...2 adults and 1 child struck on Georgia and Butternut while waiting at bus stop...groundbreaking on 120 million dollar Ballou High...Va. Found dead on Carribean cruise...James Nabrit III dies he argued key cases before Supreme Court for NAACP prior to Brown V. Board of Education ...Maryland advances in the NIT...

Tuesday March 26, 2013 Warm and sunny

Tuesday March 26, 2013 Warm and sunny Mississippi legislator shoots herself in the head in the home of her boyfriend…Chinese citizen guilty of data theft joins many as contractors are to steal secrets from U.S. companies…Colorado preparing to grow more medical marijuana…Supreme suggested they will open drug makers to suits over “pay for delay” agreements whereby drug makers pay generic makers to delay using their right to sell medication for less than the originating companies…Obama designates a monument to Harriet Tubman in Maryland and another that recognizes Delaware as the first state…Health-care law may boost temp agencies to circumvent the law that fulltime employees be covered…British teen sells his app for 30 million to Yahoo…the app is a news reader for smartphones…Government unions assisting workers worrying about the 22 day proposed furloughs from sequester…DC Fire Chief being admonished by rank and file and must face City Council…Teen steals parks and running police cruiser…journalist question sealing of record of court case involving Jeffrey Thompson…woman named to head U.S. Secret Service…Maryland House approves medical marijuana….and the beat goes on….

Monday March 25, 2013 Snow and rain

Nurses seek more autonomy across the nation as many more states consider increasing their ability to order and prescribe without oversight of physicians...opposition expected from physicians groups.. Md. Allows ordering and autonomy but requires consultation where necessary...Va. Said to have some of the most restrictive policy...Supreme court to hear two cases on gay marriage as popularity for same sex unions increases...Syrians being probes over whether chemical weapons were used in Tuesdays attacks in Aleppo...environmental groups short on diversity in rank and file and leadership...toddler fatally shot and mother wounded as boy's father kills himself moments later in central Pennslyvania...California 9 year old climbs to safety after deadly crash that leaves her father dead...2 Florida skydivers die after not pulling chutes...27 year old shot and killed in 4300 block of fourth Street SE..Last Sunday Naylor Rs Safeway Security Guard attacked by 7 juveniles....and the beat goes on....

Sunday March 24, 2013 Cloudy and cool

Two arrests made in robbery attempt in Georgia whereby two robbers allegedly shot a one year old baby in the head and his mother in the leg…huffing aerosol computer cleaner leads to death of teen in Los Angeles…experts say children can sleep through smoke alarms parents are urged to have a plan to awaken the children during a fire…Muriel Bowser makes her bid for Mayor of D.C. at her child hood home in Ward 4….gun deaths are shaped by race in America: whites are far more likely to shoot themselves, and African Americans are far more likely to be shot by else…a white person is 5 times more likely to commit suicide with a gun as to be shot by a gun….for each African American who uses a gun to commit suicide, five are killed by other people with guns….states with the most guns per capita such as Montana and Wyoming have the highest suicide rates…states with low gun ownership rates, such as Massachusetts and New York, have far fewer suicides per capita….Marines who were shot on base in Quantico identified apparent domestic issue…and the beat goes on…

Saturday March 23, 2013 Sunny and cool

Major obstacles still confront Obama’s health-care law…1. Extending the scope of Medicaid expansion…2. Building the health-insurance marketplaces...3.Getting the word out by the health care programs….4.Swaying public opinion on the law…5. Controlling health care costs….Senate adopts first budgets in four years…Arrests made in several cellphone robberies throughout the city….usually multiple perpetrators on single victims with violence….3 Marines shot at Quantico on base…Cal Ripken Jr.,Joe Ehrmann and Sheldon Kennedy spoke with leaders of Pop Warner, USA Swimming, the Boy and Girls Clubs and 50 other youth organizations to talk about child sexual abuse…Costa Rica furious after losing to United States on snowy field in Colorado because of the conditions….Connecticut woman rout Idaho in tournament winning 105-37….and the beat goes on…

Friday March 22, 2013 Warm and breezy

Obama urges Mideast talks… green cards are provided to foreigners who invest at least 500,000 in US companies…Montana reservation school hurting from the sequestration in a time where 20 children have attempted suicide and 5 have succeeded…downtown nightclub site of shoot that left a man dead behind the wheel of his car…Congress approves temporary spending measure that keeps government open…Barry and Catania considered the most unlikely odd couple…both claiming a renewed mutual respect for one another….Muriel Bowser set to announce her run for Mayor…resident alerted WSSC about leak at sight of larger water main break…Gray chooses deputy mayor for education who was former “Teach for America” student, then executive for “Teach for America”, board member of E.L. Haynes Charter School where she has 2 children attending, and she worked with charter school board in DC...Georgetown loses in the first round…and the beat goes on….

Thursday March 21, 2012 Sunny and warm/cool

Local news first today: Health Tech David Kwiatkowski has been accused of spreading Hepatitis C, stealing drugs from syringes, and lying on applications. He worked at hospitals in Baltimore VA Medical Center, Johns Hopkins, Maryland General and Southern Maryland…Teen rapes fellow student inside of Friendship Collegiate Public Charter School. DC students await money that assists students attend public universities outside of DC (10,000) or 2500 to attend local private colleges or HBCUs as budget crisis looms….sensors fail to warn in 60 inch pipe burst on Connecticut avenue….House joins debate over Redskins name as five in Congress sponsor bill against name to include Eleanor Holmes Norton…Obama administration forces reduction in fees that private collection agencies can reap from defaulted or late student loans...Senate immigration plan doubles the number of H1B visas for skilled worker and students who obtain graduate degrees in math, science, and engineering fields….Colorado’s top prison official shot answering his door…his killing comes a week after denying a Saudi National’s request to finish serving out his sentence in Saudi Arabia….Indiana ex-pastor of mega church guilty of sex with 16 year old…the man 55 years old had 1 year abuse of girl….Louisiana monks may continue to make inexpensive caskets despite law allowing only funeral business to do so….DC names nominee for deputy mayor of education…must pass City council approval…. Michael Baisden locked out of his studio being terminated and show cancelled after 10 years....and the beat goes on….and the beat goes on….

Wednesday March 20, 2013 Sunny and warm

Wave of arsons on Virginia’s eastern shore…police offering rewards…decade after returning home from Afghan war many soldiers are unemployed…Media groups encouraged to decrease the size of their cable bundles….Mississippi bans laws against super-sized meals…the state has the highest rate of obesity yet the laws banning super-sized meals will not take hold…Niemann Marcus and 2 other retailers settle case whereby they labeled fur as faux to seeming cater to those who wanted a more human version…an irate man took the mike from Kansas City mayor Sly James before being tackled by body guards…eight marines die in training exercise in Nevada…Francis formally ascends papal throne…Lululemon recalls too sheer pants which show too many parts…2 shot in holdup at Tyler House…Metrobus tracking system used by riders is determined unreliable…Metro to improve…DCPS to offer Art, Music, and Foreign Language in all elementary schools…lets confirm and follow through on this one…and the beat goes on….

Tuesday March 19, 2013 Cloudy and cool

Victims of abuse heard little from future pope…Francis when he was Archbishop is alleged not to have given credence to victims of abuse in Argentina who were abused by Julio Cesar Grassi. Grassi was a popular and media-savvy priest who ran a foundation for poor children….Record support for gay marriage is reported as those who approve rises according to polls….teen in Sterling who was a star on basketball team and very popular music creator was breaking curfew and attended a party. He was drunk and climbed over the wrong fence and entered the wrong house triggering the alarm on the house two over from where he lived… University of Central Florida student who planned to bomb and shoot up school kills himself…the 30 year old James Oliver Seevakumaran left notes after putting a bullet in his head as police closed in…FBI continues investigating decade old theft of 500 million dollar worth of art in Massachusetts…Muriel Bowser plans to announce bid for mayor this weekend according to her advisers….woman stabbed in Camp Springs in an apartment in 5200 block of Morris Avenue….man killed in fiery crash on Martin Luther King Jr. highway…and the beat goes on….

Monday March 18, 2013 Rainy and cool

Iranian sanctions are not crippling that country’s economy to the point European country’s hoped. Supreme Court takes on the definition of marriage…”In the court’s first full examination of same-sex marriage, the unify theme of those defending traditional marriage is that government has an important interest to keep reproduction going…” Obama to Israel…16 and 17 year old Ohio teenagers convicted of rape and at least one leaves court room in tears…the two are charged with raping and filming the young woman who is 16….coaches and teachers are being investigated for covering the incident up as the two are stars of the football team….2 killed in Indiana as private jet crashes into 3 homes…man kill himself in a Dick’s Sporting goods store in Philadelphia…26 apartment buildings destroyed in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina….two separate bomb threats at Newark airport…both were false….meat and poultry industries lead legislators to introduce laws that make it hard for animal rights activist to investigate cruelty and food safety….the bills would make it illegal to take photographs at a farming operation…others want to make it illegal to lie on applications for jobs at plants that process these animals….the death toll of American soldiers as of Sunday is 2,173 in the Afghanistan conflict…suspect held of New York woman in Turkey. The body of 33 year old Sara Sierra was found near Istanbul’s ancient city walls on Feb. 2…..United Medical finances remain shaky and no buyer in sight can you say DC General?....Md. to consider making possession of small amounts of marijuana a maximum of 100 dollar fine….10 grams would get 90 days and 500 dollar fine…Jailhouse letter to kill witness (she was actually murdered) silenced another witness who faced a judge and refused to testify….the defendant Willie Walker Jr. allegedly ordered Ricky Donaldson to kill Delois Persha, because she planned to testify in a murder case, Virginia teen killed entering the home of neighbor…631 guns recovered in Howard County buyback program…cellphone thief caught with 5 phones lifted from patrons out on the town in Adams Morgan over the weekend….and the beat goes on…

March 17, 2013 Cloudy and cool

Woonsocket is a town in Rhode Island that thrives by Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). The store and food distribution that occurs with them monthly allocations to apr 14000 of its residents which is 1/3 of the total population.  Many would argue but those on the former food stamp program actually sustains the town.   Dog flying from New Jersey to Phoenix ends up in Ireland...Pregnant Coach and her unborn child die in bus accident whereby a college lacrosse team was traveling back from a game the 30 year old coach was married with a 1 year old son...the bus driver also died...Detroit city manager Kevyn Orr has tax lien on his Chevy Chase Maryland home...Baker wants to take over PG schools...7 men gang rape Swiss tourist inNew Dehli....Lloyd Gaines was a black student who sued the University of Missouri and won for being denied admission in 1939... The state then created a black law school...Gaines disappeared a couple of weeks before his admission and has not been heard from since....law professor Robert Elias has authored "What Price Equality: The Heroic Court Battle and the Mysterious Disappearance  of Lloyd Gaines"....Tyler House science of shooting and injuring of 13 people slated for renovation and residents worry they won't be allowed to return as was science in another recent renovation in the same area. Resident pay as little as 200 hundred dollars with rent subsidies in an area where 1900-3000 dollar monthly rents are not uncommon....the alleged shooter was wearing a GPS ankle bracelet putting him in the block during the time of the shooting ...man gets 25 years in death of girlfriends toddler he was body punching (Jonathon Fullard, 29)...46 year old Jerome Lewis held in death of 4 year old Samauri Jenkins during Hillcrest fire..5 DC Parks and Recreation swimmers make 14 and under Junior Olympics: Absalom Bolling, 10, Jasmine Barry, 10, Raylen Jackson, 10, Zoe "motor boat" Edelman, 9, and Alicia Ng, 8.....and the beat goes on....

March 15, 2013 Cloudy and cool

US and Afghans in dispute over detainees. Karzai wants 3000 detainees released to Afghan custody to which US balks. This comes as US forces are scheduled to phase out of security picture and could probably detail the pullout or threaten relations, Kidney transplant led to Maryland man's case of rabies, US seeking to limit number of people who can immigrate for "family" reasons. most come because a member has obtained citizenship and their spouse and/or children have not. The move proposes to increase the number of skilled workers entering the country (this alone makes a strong case to fix the education system here), Detroit get city manager against city officials wishes similar to Control Board in DC, Zimbabwe voters considering a new constitution that would question the 33 year rule of Robert Mugabe, ex-Sunday Mirror tabloid editors arrested for hacking cellphones making the the only group outside of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. ever arrested for such acts, Monarch butterflies rate plunge in Mexico (where they go to avoid cold) by 59 percent, casino jobs go to ex-offenders, 1 year old child hit by truck on St. Barnabas Rd dies and father injuries, man scheduled to be executed in Maryland who was exonerated is reminder of death penalty mishaps, police looking to talk to two in shooting that injured 13 on North Capital st in NoMa arear, teen learning to drive strikes 3 little girls in Fairfax, UDC announces interim president and the beat goes on....

March 14, 2013 Sunny and Clear

March 14, 2013 Sunny and Clear DC violence-plagues Capitol View takes a back seat to Newtown, Columbine, and Tuscon... Shooting and murders outpace all of the above and no media attention ....New York police officer convict of discussing and planning to kidnap cut maim and eat women he claim he wasn't serious...Michelle Obama and Joe Biden's personal information hacked...harassment alleged to Department of Justice agency tasked with insuring voter rights and fair re-districting...racial epithets found in emails "po niggaz" Kodie "Cocoa" Brown recovering from gunshot wounds...Latinos increasingly segregated...defense attorney accused of planting evidence to free his client facing 5 years....Metro says glitch causes overcharges watch out,...rabies death in Maryland first case 1976...and the beat goes on....

March 12, 2013 Rainy and cool

March 12, 2013 Rainy and cool John Hopkins researcher questions research and colleague found dead...the numbers don't add up in acclaimed research on drug response to cancers, 13 shot in DC Monday in neighborhood undergoing gentrification ...excited over development of nuclear power plants cooling...new plant eye for Calvert Cliffs, Md....big sodas still legal in New York...the fight continues...Air Force general throws out conviction of Lieutenant in rape case Pentagon to get involved as sexual abuse cases in military are up...Kwame  Kilpatrick  convicted in corruption cases in Detroit...bad year for politicians...Harvard apologizes for probing emails if deans...a search for media leaks in cheating scandal cited...2 US troops and 5 Afghans killed in inside attack at planning session...Israel:Palestinian rocket kills 11 month old baby in November UN report ruled. The rocket fell short of of Israel during the period of 8 day fighting...5 species of shark and 2 types of Manta Rays are given trade protection...all are used for medicinal or culinary purposes and said to be over harvested  in parts of Asia...Blackberry and AT & T to start selling touch screen smartphone on March 22...doctors offices set to change under Affordable Care Act..instead of many offices in a building with individual receptionists, schedulers, nurses the models will look more like big box stores opposed to specialty grocers...KIPP DC to build new high school at Randall Recreation the 40 million dollar project is slated to use public funds...educators efforts to hire spouse raises questions..Richard Trogisch principal of acclaimed School Without Walls is attempting to hire his wife a math teacher at Hardy Middle school...eyebrows raised...cyclist fatally struck in Silver Spring...riding against a red light...Mckinley Tech Teacher admits to sending lewd texts and receiving explicit pictures from students....in Virginia nail salons get more oversight than daycares...I suspect that is about to change as deaths of babies in daycare have risen....third intentionally set fire discovered at another Laurel playground...and the beat goes on... 

March 11, 2013 Rainy and Warm

Ohio: Six teenagers killed as SUV lands in pond…Sanctuary reopens after lion attack…mummies show hardening of arteries…New York City Council Speaker seeking to become first female mayor…Harvard accused of secret search of e-mail accounts of deans…socioeconomic differences tell the tale of life expectancy…Iranian government uses filters to prevent access to many sites on the grounds are offensive or criminal…lawmakers pursue pardon for boxer Jack Johnson’s 1913 conviction of the Mann Act: transporting woman across state lines for immoral acts…District cashes in on illegal parking to the tune of 92 million dollars…and the beat goes on…

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March 7 2013 Sunny and mild

Robot worker now moving into management positions, Detroit city council votes against appointment of control board type oversight body opposing Michigan governor, DC police officer waits 15 minutes for ambulance after hit and run EMS and MPD unions debating shift changes by chief Ellerbe, lion kills intern at zoo in California, Maine Zumba instructor charged with running prostitution ring out of studio....that's working it out lol, 4 robberies with 2 shooting within hours of one another in southeast may be linked, Brent elementary burglarized, snow amounts little to none in DC, Wizards, Maryland and Georgetown lose, DDS has its hearing before DC City Council today and the beat goes on.....

March 6 2013 Snow and cold

Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez dies at 59 of cancer, Jeb Bush considering run for president, Dow breaks previous record despite sequester, unemployment, and political gridlock enhancing the notion that the U.S. economy is become less reliant on domestic condition versus global factors, "nightmare bacteria" fears public health officials as itself Carbapenen-Resistant Enterpbacteriaceae or CRE is resistant to antibiotics, kills 50% of those who acquire it and most interestingly it can spread its resistance to other bacteria in its family. Simply it could cripple hospital and nursing homes ability to protect their patients, Oregon man employed in a waste water treatment plant charged with providing material aid and support to terrorists most notably those affiliated with 2009 Pakistan suicide bombing that killed 30, Atlanta pilot reports seeing an unmanned drone as he approached the runway to land at Kennedy airport in New York no confirmation from FAA, DC council to consider requiring gun owners to acquire 250k insurance, 9 groups seek to open charter schools, realtor 60 year old guilty of stealing clothing from a home he was agent for in Arlington, snow reaches metro area and the beat goes on....

March 4 2013

Obama appoints diverse federal judges to include a south Asian, a lesbian Asian, and a gay black, Mississippi baby said to be cured of HIV virus hope springs from discovery, Kerry approves millions in aid to Egypt, will O'Malley run Hillary said more popular with Md. Voters for president, British Bishop admits to sexual misconduct within Catholic Church, Leesburg wife stabs husband to death, Waldorf man shoots a skills self at gun range said to be accident, area hospitals suing Charter Healthcare for underpayment as Charter sues DC Medicaid office, father and 3 daughters who died in Glenarden fire buried, another PG youth shot and killed in College Park suspect in custody, District youth stabbed in PG county gang fight, 10 year olds Raylen Jackson (girls) and Absalom Bolling (boys)of southeast each win high point in their respective gender groups at 26th annual St. Albans Junior Invitational Swim meet Saturday, Wizards beat 76ers in dramatic fashion, and the beat goes on.....