<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Crime</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/metro/dc/crime?nav=rss_metro/dc/crime</link><description>Crime</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[Despite Law, D.C. Jail Conditions Unimproved]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12259-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_metro/dc/crime</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12259-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_metro/dc/crime</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:04:58 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Mayor Anthony A. Williams and the Department of Corrections have failed to comply with a 14-month-old law negotiated with the D.C. Council to improve conditions and operations at the District's main jail after the stabbing deaths of two detainees and other inmate violence.]]></description><author> Serge F. Kovaleski</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[District Man Admits Killing Mayor's Aide]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7219-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_metro/dc/crime</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7219-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_metro/dc/crime</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:04:58 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A neighbor charged with killing longtime civil rights activist Wanda R. Alston plead guilty to second-degree murder Thursday, admitting to an addiction to crack cocaine.]]></description><author> Henri E. Cauvin</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ruling Saves Part of D.C. Gun Liability Law]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7981-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_metro/dc/crime</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7981-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_metro/dc/crime</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:04:58 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The D.C. Court of Appeals ruled yesterday that gunmakers can be sued for shootings in the District that are carried out with a broad range of automatic weapons.]]></description><author> Henri E. Cauvin</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[15-Year-Old Charged in Charter School Arson]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7958-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_metro/dc/crime</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7958-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_metro/dc/crime</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:04:58 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ A 15-year-old student was arrested yesterday and charged as a juvenile in the first of two arsons that badly damaged a Northeast Washington charter school in December, officials said.]]></description><author> Del Quentin Wilber</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[2 Plead Guilty In '04 Murder  Of Politician]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63974-2005Apr18.html?nav=rss_metro/dc/crime</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63974-2005Apr18.html?nav=rss_metro/dc/crime</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:04:58 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  It began as a night of ill-advised socializing, lubricated by illegal drugs, and ended with Terry Hairston dead in his Southeast Washington home. Yesterday, the two young women he was with that night last May pleaded guilty to murdering the once-promising politician.]]></description><author> Henri Cauvin</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man Wary of D.C. Drivers Killed in Hit-and-Run]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64474-2005Apr18.html?nav=rss_metro/dc/crime</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64474-2005Apr18.html?nav=rss_metro/dc/crime</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:04:58 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ James Brian Doherty walked everywhere. The 45-year-old D.C. resident hated driving so much that he didn't have a driver's license. But he worried about getting hit by a car.]]></description><author> Petula Dvorak</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Protest of Meetings Of Finance Leaders Is Colorful, Subdued]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59447-2005Apr16.html?nav=rss_metro/dc/crime</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59447-2005Apr16.html?nav=rss_metro/dc/crime</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:04:58 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A couple of hundred protesters outnumbered police and took over parts of downtown Washington Saturday, using puppets and percussion to send their message to the World Bank and International Monetary Fund during the groups' spring meetings.]]></description><author> Petula Dvorak</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tax Fraud Alleged at D.C. Restaurants]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57284-2005Apr15.html?nav=rss_metro/dc/crime</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57284-2005Apr15.html?nav=rss_metro/dc/crime</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:04:58 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A Vienna man was charged with shortchanging the District on taxes from sales over the past sevenyears at four restaurants and one nightclub he owned and operated.]]></description><author> Carol D. Leonnig</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revoke Club U's License, D.C. Says]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51709-2005Apr13.html?nav=rss_metro/dc/crime</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51709-2005Apr13.html?nav=rss_metro/dc/crime</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:04:58 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ City lawyers yesterday asked the District's Alcoholic Beverage Control Board to revoke the license of Club U, saying the go-go club is the cause of a "persistent pattern" of violence and unruly behavior in a Northwest neighborhood.]]></description><author> Eric M. Weiss</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[D.C. Calls for Doctor Oversight Hearing]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51179-2005Apr13.html?nav=rss_metro/dc/crime</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51179-2005Apr13.html?nav=rss_metro/dc/crime</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:04:58 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Council member David A. Catania said the hearing is in response to a series of Washington Post articles that reported the medical board rarely disciplines troubled doctors.]]></description><author> Cheryl W. Thompson</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Domestic Violence  Shelters Get Big Boost]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49757-2005Apr13.html?nav=rss_metro/dc/crime</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49757-2005Apr13.html?nav=rss_metro/dc/crime</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:04:58 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ D.C. Council member Kwame R. Brown (D-At Large) has secured the support of Mayor Anthony A. Williams (D) to dramatically increase the number of shelter beds for domestic violence victims in the city.]]></description><author> Eric M. Weiss</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[City's Growth, Federal Cuts Squeezing Police Force]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40679-2005Apr9.html?nav=rss_metro/dc/crime</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40679-2005Apr9.html?nav=rss_metro/dc/crime</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:04:58 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Proposed cuts to the federal law enforcement budget have left Frederick city police bracing for reductions in staff and services at a time when anti-terrorism efforts have already stretched both budget and staff.]]></description><author> Elizabeth Williamson</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Judge Acquits Protester of  Displaying Fetus in D.C.]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38445-2005Apr8.html?nav=rss_metro/dc/crime</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38445-2005Apr8.html?nav=rss_metro/dc/crime</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:04:58 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The alleged misdemeanor act took only a few seconds. And it was caught on video, which would seem to have sealed the case.]]></description><author> Henri E. Cauvin</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[D.C. Gang Leader Gets 151 Years in Deadly Plot]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38448-2005Apr8.html?nav=rss_metro/dc/crime</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38448-2005Apr8.html?nav=rss_metro/dc/crime</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:04:58 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ A leader of a Latino street gang that took four lives and scarred countless others in a bid to eliminate its rivals was sentenced yesterday to 151 years in prison for his part in the conspiracy.]]></description><author> Henri E. Cauvin</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Temple Hills Man, 22, Convicted for Role in Killing]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38785-2005Apr8.html?nav=rss_metro/dc/crime</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38785-2005Apr8.html?nav=rss_metro/dc/crime</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:04:58 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ After what its foreman described as heated deliberations, a federal jury in Prince George's County convicted a Temple Hills man yesterday of conspiracy to kidnap a teenager who was abducted from a Southeast Washington street at gunpoint, driven to an Oxon Hill neighborhood and shot to death.]]></description><author> Ruben Castaneda</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[D.C. Principal Reassigned Pending Investigation of Harassment Ruling]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36063-2005Apr8.html?nav=rss_metro/dc/crime</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36063-2005Apr8.html?nav=rss_metro/dc/crime</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:04:58 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ A D.C. elementary school principal who apparently did not divulge during job interviews last summer that he had lost a sexual harassment lawsuit in Memphis was removed from his position pending an investigation, school system officials said last night.]]></description><author> V. Dion Haynes</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[D.C. Court Custodial Chief Has Record]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35558-2005Apr7.html?nav=rss_metro/dc/crime</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35558-2005Apr7.html?nav=rss_metro/dc/crime</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:04:58 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The man in charge of a new custodial contract at D.C. Superior Court pleaded guilty two years ago to taking part in a $2 million fraud at Reagan National Airport while he was in charge of the janitorial staff there, court records show.]]></description><author> Henri E. Cauvin</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[D.C. Hired Principal Who Harassed Subordinate]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32775-2005Apr6.html?nav=rss_metro/dc/crime</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32775-2005Apr6.html?nav=rss_metro/dc/crime</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:04:58 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[School officials said they are reviewing the case of a principal who was hired last summer despite findings that he sexually harassed a subordinate at a school in Memphis.]]></description><author> V. Dion Haynes</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[SE Woman Blamed for Crash With 10 Children]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26273-2005Apr4.html?nav=rss_metro/dc/crime</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26273-2005Apr4.html?nav=rss_metro/dc/crime</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:04:58 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ D.C. police said yesterday that driver error caused a crash in which a sedan filled with 10 children slammed into a parked firetruck Sunday night and that investigators are awaiting the results of blood tests on the driver.]]></description><author> Del Quentin Wilber</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Daily, Parents Fear Having to Bury Child]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23696-2005Apr3.html?nav=rss_metro/dc/crime</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23696-2005Apr3.html?nav=rss_metro/dc/crime</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:04:58 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[As D.C.'s teen homicides surge, parents living in violence-marked areas turn their worry into action.]]></description><author> Sue Anne Pressley</author></item></channel></rss>