Sunday April 14 Sunny and cool

Eric Williams…a man in Texas man considered a suspect for a murder of a prosecutor and judge involved in Williams case of theft of government computers.….a threatening email led police…Tiger Woods finishes fourth despite two stroke penalty…winner of Masters first Australian, Adam Scott, hired Tiger Woods former caddy…14 year old guan Tianlang wins fans for making the cut…he is a native of China…patent on OxyContin expires tomorrow allowing generic companies to get into the market….five die in Idaho from a short in an electrical cord that was overloaded…63 year old man is set on fire for not giving a man who was begging for change in Long Beach California…Sidwell Friends, an elite private school to back charter school development by One World….Gangs targeting members on line…

Saturday April 13 Sunny and cool

Jonathan Winters, 87 comedian, dies…Obama’s tax return show drop in income and that they donated over 20 percent of their income…director of Philadelphia abortion clinic allowing live births and killing the babies…Kermit Gosnell…is the 72 year old doctor…new Google tool would allow loved ones access to email and other data to family members upon the death of the owner….Carnival cruise line fight to not have to pay U.S. for towing in stranded vessel…teacher cheated in 11 DC schools report finds….decoy speed camera boxes used in Laurel…..and the beat goes on…

Friday April 12 2013 Rainy and warm

3 dead as storm hits Midwest and Southeast, Connecticut gun shop that sold the Newtown shooters guns is shut down for selling a gun to a felon…abortion foes find fresh energy in states’ flurry of restrictions in the past six weeks, four states-Alabama, Arkansas, Kansas and North Dakota have adopted some of the most stringent restriction in the nation….six automakers, including Toyota, Honda and Nissan are recalling 3.4 million older-model vehicles worldwide….the recall mainly affects cars sold by Japanese automakers in North America, Europe and Japan.  A small number of cars made by BMW and General Motors are involved…the front passenger-side airbag has faulty airbag…foreclosures notices up sharply in Maryland…salaries can’t keep up with rising home prices in DC…median home price from 405,000 to 460,000…DC firm charged with scamming NBA and NFL players claiming inflated investment numbers using the money to lease high end vehicles and spending sprees….if you are raising and athlete teach them more than how to play the game….gay boy scout fighting for equality in Bethesda…man arrested in Montgomery County tor attempted carjacking…Lt. Governor Anthony Brown to announce run for Governor of Maryland….average rent for one bedroom in DC is 1,759.00 a month…

Thursday April 11, 2013 Sunny and cool

Obama phones are not new... The program called Lifeline is actually 28 years old...cicadas coming back after 17 years...white house to seek 235 million for mental health assessments in schools....Beyonce/J-Z trip approved for people to people exchange..4 year old shoots 6 year old neighbor in head in southern New Jersey...circus elephant shot in drive by in Mississippi....really...17 year old girl killed by 31 year old army recruiter...median home price in DC rise...DC area jobless rate stays the same 5.4%...suicide of Rick Warren's son spurs call to end mental illness stigma...5 injured in crash near Eastern high school...Chief Lanier: booming night life strains police...Washington Council of Governments retracts its gun control stance...4 killed and 1 injured in head on collision in Queen Anne's crash...Robert Edwards, 87 whose Nobel Prize winner's researcher dies...general defends overturning verdict...he doesn't believe pilot committed sex assault...And the Beat Goes On...

Wednesday April 10, 2013 Cloudy

Virginia governor catching heat over 15,000 check campaign donor issues to caterer of governor's daughter's wedding...senate to vote to debate gun bill...Connecticut woman crush Louisville for NCAA division 1 championship...Texas community college man stabs 14 people on campus...parents consented to experiment involving over 1400 newborn premies who were Treated with leas than currently acceptable oxygen dosages...parent now saying they weren't advised of risks...really....really?....Rockville teacher accused of fondling 11 year old girls...SE man shot and killed by officer after allegedly shooting at officer as account from witnesses and family members dispute police account...the man reportedly riding a bike at 3 am with an open container was stopped....interestingly his 7 year old drug distribution charge was brought into the discussion by WP...And the Beats Goes On....

Tuesday April 9, 2013 Sunny and 84

Louisville wins men NCAA basketball championship over Michigan 83-76...FDA set to impose new rules on fruit and vegetables that are eaten raw. Farmers of apples and other fruits/vegetables unhappy and warn of price pressure that will be pushed to consumers...can you say 5 dollar apple?...Md pushes bundle of legislation through to include medical marijuana...tighter gun law...cellphone use while driving increased fines...new PG Hospital...expansion of early voting...Sen. Max Baucus set to with others to rewrite tax code that hasn't been touched in over 25 years. The over 5000 page code is considered a monumental challenge ...Margaret Thatcher, former British Prime Minister dies from stroke at 87 and is heralded for her progress made for her country...Aereo, a web based TV company slated to offer programming over the Internet for 10 dollars a month having developed the ability to stream live programming...several major networks not pleased...Chuck Hagel seeking to greatly reduce military authority to overturn conviction by court martial citing the recent overturn of a sexual assault conviction as deplorable...Pbama vows before Newtown parents to continue fight on gun laws citing discontent at the fact that 00 percent of Americans believe change is necessary but Congress failing implement universal background checks, magazine clip settings, and assault weapons ban...Maryland girl, military recruiter are found dead in home of the recruiter... Murder suicide probable... Girl was 17 recruiter 31...16 year old Darius Cannon shot dead in Woodland Terrace. His mother ' I wanted to get him out of here' and move him to North Carolina...ward 8 school board member Trayon White expresses discontent with the city citing how he can get money for a funeral faster and without as much hassle as he can to get money to send kids to college... And The Beat Goes On...shout out to MT for encouragement!

Sunday April 7, 2013 Sunny

Utah, Morman woman leads prayer for first time in history…Kansas governor to sign antiabortion bill, visa program for skilled workers filled almost immediately after opening…drone use remains cloaked despite pledge for more transparency…Mandela leaves hospital…motorcyclist killed in Anne Arundel crash on route 100 near the Baltimore-Washington Parkway…man charged with assault and arson…Alejandro Rodriquez 25 in Howard County…Wayne Curry to head economic board (Economic Development Corporation), a quasi-public agency that is working to bring new business to the county…body found in Potomac river near route of cherry blossoms…man tries to rob two banks with a block of one another unsuccessfully…he tried to rob the Suntrust in 1200 block of K st. at 11:24 a.m. and the Bank of America at 11:45 a.m….his notes were illegible and a psychiatric evaluations is being ordered…Louisville and Michigan advance to championship… and the beat goes on…

Saturday April 6, 2013 Sunny and cool

Plan B wins over the counter status and girls any age may purchase…Mississippi suspect kills officer during interrogation wrestling away his gun and shooting the officer…white supremacist arrested in killing of Colorado prosecutor…Trayvon Martin’s parents settle with HOA, home owners association…Obama apologizes for comments on looks of California attorney general…Pope seeks action on child sexual abuse…Pope Francis wants the church to act decisively on the issue of sexual abuse of children…and the beat goes on…

Friday April 5, 2013 Sunny and cool

 North Korea has South Korea on edge as citizens try and go about a normal exisitence…Bitcoin, a virtual currency is taking off but concern over its bust looms…its value has a unit value of 20 dollars…bird flu death toll in China up to six…Connecticut Gov. signs tough new gun bill…West Virginia man shoots and kill sheriff’s deputy and said to have mental illness…...Alabama pardons the Scottsboro boys who were nine black men charged with raping two white woman more than 80 years ago the last of the nine died in 1989…marijuana legalization reaches its highest approval rating from poll…9 groups apply to open charters schools…hearing slated for Monday at 6:20 pm at Carlos Rosario International Charter School 1100 Harvard St. N.W…88 year old man dies after rear ending flatbed truck on Kenilworth Ave. in Riverdale…Blue Angels shows put on how secondary to sequester…Byron Hope 40 plus year DC Government employee dies…and the beat goes on...

Thursday April 4, 2013, Sunny and cool

45 year anniversary of Martin Luther King assassination...Short on graves China takes to burying people at sea…cancer clinics turning many patients away, citing sequestration…the Connecticut state senate passes gun-control measure…Obama writes a 20000 check as donation or 5% of his 400000 salary to show support of federal workers furloughs…Army civilian employee has died following a shooting incident in a parking lot in Fort Knox, Kentucky…Taliban attack kills at least 48, wounds scores in western Afghanistan…more bird flu cases raise fear in China…Dc public housing list to close after April 12….two men stabbed in two separate incidents in SE…Marion Barry released from Howard University…D.C.’s Dupont Circle groper deported to Nicaragua…cyclist robbed on Arlington trail around 10:20 pm, he was knocked off his bike and attached by two men…Barbara Piasecka Johnson, 76 one of the world’s 50th richest women dies, she is from the Johnson and Johnson pharmaceutical family…charge reduced in woman’s killing of husband…the woman a Walter Reed pharmacist killed her husband in self-defense…and the beat goes on….

Wednesday April 3, 2013 Sunny and cool

Corey Booker making likely run for N.J. senate...Obama looking to appoint liberal judge to D.C. Circuit Court…Couple arrested in arsons on Va. Eastern Shore…Educators turn themselves in cheating scandal in Georgia…Obama pledges 100 million toward initiative to map brain…NRA backed study urges armed staff at schools…Michael Brown ends run for At-Large city Council bid…1 killed and 3 injured in silver Spring blaze…two students accuse Meadow Hall Elementary School in Rockville…student brings loaded 22 into Glen Burnie High School in Anne Arundel County…retired police officer kills armed man at his door who was attempt to kick in his door in Calvert County…man found in Anacostia river was Iraqi war vet whose father says struggled with substance abuse and PTSD…former linebacker and coach of the Washington football team Jack Pardee dies of 76…Richard England, Washington business man and philanthropist, dies at 93…helped John Hechinger build his empire…Marion Barry hospitalized for blood sugar drop and the beat goes on…

Tuesday April 2, 2013 Sunny and cool

European companies boost US presence. Shale gas said to stem this influx. Unlocking shale has give US advantage as the price of natural gas is 25 percent less...gun laws meeting resistance as 90 percent poll think background checks should be implemented but gun lobby has waged assault and is winning...real estate investor flocking to PG county to snap up foreclosures to flip...smoking cessation aides being used for longer than originally prescribed with FDA blessings...only eight senators do not favor same sex marriage...several because their children are gays says Post...Alaskan republican who has served 41 years commented that his father used to hire "wetbacks" to pick tomatoes when he was a boy...climate activist leaves NASA to fight global warming full time after years of pressure from superiors... James E. Hansen is one the worlds forest authorities coming out in 1988 with fears...American soldier playing with children in Afghanistan stabbed in neck by teen and dies...American tourist kidnapped and sexually assaulted in Rio de Janiero...20 deer killed in Rock Creek park in controlled kill...man pulls gun and woman pulls knife in road rage event on 295 no injuries even though woman struck man...and the beat goes on...

Monday April 1, 2013 Sunny and cool

Bipartisan Senate group working toward immigration reform...meet production won't be affected by sequester as 11 days of furloughs was slated for inspectors but money found elsewhere to cover cuts...other lobbies looking for money...colleges using email to convey acceptances or denials...prosecutor on Kaufman Texas and his wife slain...he was always armed...girl 4 shot in car as loaded gun left as she and two other children left outside of her grandfather's house...massive pile up at Virginia-North Carolina border...3 Auburn Washington men
shot dead after fight outside bar...sequester overtime cuts hurting airports, border patrols, and national parks...D.C. Judges seek to unionize..administrative law judges seek to organize...Cheverly woman dies in fire secondary to severe hoarding...Ex-KKK supporter, Elwin Wilson dies...he is most famous for apologizing to congressman John Lewis for attacking him and others at a sit-in at Rock Hill Bus station in 1961...Wizards continue roll...Nats. win home opener...and Final Four decided...and the beat goes on...