DISTRICT BRIEFING

U.S. SUPREME COURT

80 Held in Protest Over Guantanamo

Eighty people were arrested at the Supreme Court yesterday in a protest calling for the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to be closed.

They were charged with violating an ordinance that prohibits demonstrations of any kind on the court's grounds. Those arrested inside the building also were charged under a provision that makes it a crime to give "a harangue or oration" in the court building. The maximum penalty is 60 days in jail, a fine or both.

-- Associated Press

SOUTHEAST

Drive-By Shooting Wounds Five Teens

Five teenagers were wounded in Southeast Washington yesterday in a drive-by shooting, D.C. police said.

The shooting occurred about 4:30 p.m. in the 2600 block of Douglass Road. The wounds were not believed to be life-threatening.

In a second drive-by about 6 p.m., a man was shot and wounded in the 2900 block of 20th Street NE.

-- Clarence Williams