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THE DISTRICT

Fenty names chief of security agency

Millicent Williams will take over as the new director of the District's Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency, Mayor Adrian M. Fenty said Friday. She will replace Darrell Darnell, who has moved to the White House national security staff.

Williams, 39, will leave her post as president and chief executive of the D.C. Children and Youth Investment Trust Corp., where she has worked on expanding services for the city's children since July 2008. Fenty (D) appointed Williams to be executive director of Serve D.C. -- which advocates public service and volunteerism -- in July 2007, and she previously managed the organization's Community Emergency Response Teams effort, training residents to be better prepared for emergency situations in their communities.

-- Josh White

Man gets 35 years in fatal shooting

A District man has been sentenced to 35 years in prison for the shooting death of a Hyattsville man last year, prosecutors say.

Aaron Roberts, 31, was sentenced Wednesday in the slaying of 33-year-old Gregory Barron Jr. Roberts had pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in August.

Officials say Roberts went to a nightclub in Hyattsville on Aug. 28, 2008, and refused to be patted down by Barron, who was working as a bouncer at the club. When Barron took a cigarette break soon after, Roberts shot him several times and then fled.

-- Associated Press