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U.S. eases criteria for seeking clemency

WASHINGTON – The Justice Department is encouraging nonviolent federal inmates who have behaved in prison, have no significant criminal history and have already served more than 10 years behi...

DATE: Apr 23, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Tax fraud becoming expensive problem

WASHINGTON – An Internet connection and a bunch of stolen identities are all it takes for crooks to collect billions of dollars in bogus federal tax refunds. And the scam is proving too perv...

DATE: Apr 10, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Data breach: How would you know?

No consensus on ways to notify potential victims

DATE: Mar 9, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Three dead after Maryland mall shooting

COLUMBIA, Md. – A man carrying a shotgun opened fire at a busy shopping mall in suburban Baltimore on Saturday, killing two employees of a skate shop and then himself as panicked shoppers ra...

DATE: Jan 25, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Police say 3 dead after shooting at Maryland mall

COLUMBIA, Md. – Police in Maryland say three people died Saturday in a shooting at a mall in suburban Baltimore, including the presumed gunman. Howard County police said via Twit...

DATE: Jan 25, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Report: Uneven training for US building guards

WASHINGTON – Contract guards who protect federal buildings have received uneven and inconsistent training on responding to shootings like the one last month at the Washington Navy Yard, acco...

DATE: Oct 30, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Man sets himself on fire on the National Mall

WASHINGTON – A man set himself on fire on the National Mall in the nation’s capital as passers-by rushed over to help douse the flames, officials and witnesses said Friday afternoon. ...

DATE: Oct 4, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Navy Yard employees get counseling after massacre

WASHINGTON – Andy Wood is accustomed to responding to a hazardous materials spill or ferocious natural disaster from his post at the Washington Navy Yard’s emergency operations center. ...

DATE: Sep 26, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Navy Yard gunman left note about radio waves

WASHINGTON – Washington Navy Yard gunman Aaron Alexis left a note saying constant bombardment with extremely low-frequency radio waves “has driven me to this,” the FBI said Wednesday in a di...

DATE: Sep 25, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

VA: Gunman didn’t say he was depressed

WASHINGTON – The Washington Navy Yard gunman visited two hospitals in the weeks before the rampage but did not say he was depressed or having thoughts of harming himself or others, the Veter...

DATE: Sep 18, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Prosecutors say woman had soda can with green paint

WASHINGTON – A woman charged with defacing the Washington National Cathedral had a soda can of green paint with her when she was arrested, and she has been linked to at least four other inci...

DATE: Jul 30, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Massive storm system hitting Mid-Atlantic

WASHINGTON – A massive storm system that started in the Upper Midwest brought soaking rains and heavy winds to the Mid-Atlantic Thursday, causing widespread power outages, flash flooding and...

DATE: Jun 13, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World