<?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/md/crime?nav=rss_metro/md/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[Landfill Neighbors Outraged by Transfer Station Plans]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12567-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_metro/md/crime</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12567-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_metro/md/crime</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:05:07 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Spring has blossomed along Reichs Ford Road in Frederick County, and so has the trash. The warm breeze carries its smell. Plastic bags bloom in the trees. Flying debris dots people's newly green lawns like dandelions.]]></description><author> Fredrick Kunkle</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ehrlich Warns Loss of Slots Might Cost Md. the Preakness]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7594-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_metro/md/crime</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7594-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_metro/md/crime</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:05:07 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Maryland could lose its 130-year grip on the Preakness Stakes because of the state legislature's persistent refusal to legalize slot machine gambling, Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. said yesterday.]]></description><author> Matthew Mosk</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sale to Pr. George's Tarnishes LeapFrog]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7559-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_metro/md/crime</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7559-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_metro/md/crime</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:05:07 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ A federal investigation into the purchase of educational software and equipment by Maryland's second-largest school system has taken a toll on the nation's third-largest toy company, LeapFrog Enterprises Inc.]]></description><author> Daniel de Vise</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bowie  Students Hear Hip-Hop Message]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7440-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_metro/md/crime</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7440-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_metro/md/crime</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:05:07 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[He only had to speak three words to make the crowd get wild.]]></description><author> Ylan Q. Mui</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Columbia Comes of Age]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5272-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_metro/md/crime</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5272-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_metro/md/crime</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:05:07 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Recently, I wrote a  story about a teacher at Wilde Lake Middle School who was robbed at gunpoint in her classroom early one morning. As a crime reporter for the Post, I'm not naive. Still, somehow a holdup seemed almost incomprehensible at the middle school where I learned algebra from a very patient Mr. Longo and cried my eyes out while reading "The Yearling" by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings.]]></description><author> Allison Klein</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hornsby Imbroglio Raises Worries]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6002-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_metro/md/crime</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6002-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_metro/md/crime</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:05:07 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The fallout from a federal criminal investigation of Prince George's County schools chief Andre J. Hornsby has jolted a school system that can ill afford another bout of instability.]]></description><author> Nick Anderson</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Md. Case Could Cut Suspects' Rights]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2456-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_metro/md/crime</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2456-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_metro/md/crime</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:05:07 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[DEATH PENALTY, the charge read. <br>"I bet you want to talk now, huh?" an officer told the cold, tired 17-year-old accused of a brutal carjacking and murder in downtown Annapolis.]]></description><author> Ray Rivera</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Immigrants on Bowie Job Win Back Pay]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63968-2005Apr18.html?nav=rss_metro/md/crime</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63968-2005Apr18.html?nav=rss_metro/md/crime</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:05:07 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ For six weeks, Josue Lagos awoke at 4 a.m. six and sometimes seven days a week to pick up as many as a dozen fellow day laborers in a van and drive to a site in Bowie where they toiled in 10- to 12-hours shifts to build a four-story luxury condominium building.]]></description><author> Ruben Castaneda</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[As Coffee Brews, City's Old Guard Stirs Up Memories]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59652-2005Apr16.html?nav=rss_metro/md/crime</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59652-2005Apr16.html?nav=rss_metro/md/crime</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:05:07 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Years ago, they were the politicians and the policemen, the newspaperman and the bank examiner, the high school football coach and the school superintendent. Now they are the Frederick Coffee Club, gathering six days a week for a half-hour, a $1.10 cup of joe and the solace of collective memory.]]></description><author> Elizabeth Williamson</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Montgomery Weighs Sprinkler Retrofitting]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57528-2005Apr15.html?nav=rss_metro/md/crime</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57528-2005Apr15.html?nav=rss_metro/md/crime</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:05:07 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  Montgomery County officials announced yesterday they will push to require that older high-rise apartment buildings in the county be equipped with sprinkler systems, a measure they believe would help prevent a repeat of Thursday's deadly high-rise fire in Silver Spring.]]></description><author> Tim Craig  and Jennifer Lenhart</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Smoking Linked to Md. Man's Death in Fire]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57564-2005Apr15.html?nav=rss_metro/md/crime</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57564-2005Apr15.html?nav=rss_metro/md/crime</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:05:07 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ A fire that killed a 22-year-old Bethesda man and two other Miami University students in Ohio last week started when smoking materials ignited a couch in a first-floor living room, investigators said yesterday.]]></description><author> Nancy Trejos</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[FTC Moves to Freeze Assets]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57613-2005Apr15.html?nav=rss_metro/md/crime</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57613-2005Apr15.html?nav=rss_metro/md/crime</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:05:07 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The founder of AmeriDebt Inc., the now bankrupt Maryland credit-counseling firm, took $70 million from its operations between 1999 and 2003 and spent lavishly on his wife, girlfriend and himself, including paying $179,000 to an interior decorator, $13,500 to a yachting company and $2,500 on a restaurant tab.]]></description><author> Caroline E. Mayer</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Md. Man Gets Life for Murder Behind School]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55081-2005Apr14.html?nav=rss_metro/md/crime</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55081-2005Apr14.html?nav=rss_metro/md/crime</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:05:07 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Joseph N. Bellamy, a Gaithersburg man responsible for a string of assaults and robberies, was sentenced yesterday to life in prison for the 2003 murder of a 21-year-old man behind Brown Station Elementary School.]]></description><author> Nancy Trejos</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lethal Injections  Called Flawed]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54799-2005Apr14.html?nav=rss_metro/md/crime</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54799-2005Apr14.html?nav=rss_metro/md/crime</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:05:07 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  Some prisoners executed by lethal injection might be so inadequately sedated that they are awake enough to suffer agonizingly painful deaths, according to a study.]]></description><author> Karin Brulliard</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Montgomery County Crime]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49990-2005Apr13.html?nav=rss_metro/md/crime</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49990-2005Apr13.html?nav=rss_metro/md/crime</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:05:07 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   Montgomery County <br><em> The following were among incidents recently reported by the Montgomery County Police Department. For more information, call 240-773-5030.</em>]]></description><author></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/md/crime</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51179-2005Apr13.html?nav=rss_metro/md/crime</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:05:07 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[Session Marked by Discord]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48684-2005Apr13.html?nav=rss_metro/md/crime</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48684-2005Apr13.html?nav=rss_metro/md/crime</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:05:07 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The rise of two-party government in Maryland came into sharp relief this week as the 2005 session of the General Assembly concluded with intense partisan battles over expanding rights for gay couples,  increasing the minimum wage and financing stem cell research.]]></description><author> David Snyder  and Matthew Mosk</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Iranian Pleads Guilty In Arms Export Sting]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51177-2005Apr13.html?nav=rss_metro/md/crime</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51177-2005Apr13.html?nav=rss_metro/md/crime</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:05:07 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Federal agents operating undercover in Maryland snared an Iranian citizen who sought to buy and export fighter planes and other restricted equipment for use by the Iranian military, authorities said yesterday.]]></description><author> Eric Rich</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Community Activist Killed While Crossing Suitland Rd.]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48629-2005Apr13.html?nav=rss_metro/md/crime</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48629-2005Apr13.html?nav=rss_metro/md/crime</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:05:07 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ W. Retta Gilliam was passionate about revitalizing poor communities  --  so passionate that she left a Wall Street job to volunteer for the Peace Corps in Kenya, then moved to Washington to bring new homes and commercial projects to blighted neighborhoods.]]></description><author> Debbi Wilgoren</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gay Rights, Through a Father's Eyes]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47825-2005Apr12.html?nav=rss_metro/md/crime</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47825-2005Apr12.html?nav=rss_metro/md/crime</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:05:07 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Cassi Niemann didn't know exactly what legislative district her father represented or the precise jargon to describe what he was doing in Annapolis last week.]]></description><author> Matthew Mosk</author></item></channel></rss>