Author: Dana Hedgpeth
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TSA confiscated nearly 4,000 guns at airport checkpoints in 2017; Denver had fourth most
There was a realistic-looking replica of a suicide vest found in a checked bag at an airport in El Paso. A block of inert explosives was discovered in a carry-on bag at an airport in Florida. Hand grenades were confiscated from luggage at airports all over the country. These, along with 3,957 firearms, were among…
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Two men tried to rob a pizza restaurant. But police were already there, investigating an earlier crime.
Talk about timing: Two masked men tried to rob a pizza restaurant in Prince George’s County, Maryland, while police were inside the business investigating a previous robbery there. The incident occurred around 11:30 a.m. Sunday in the 9000 block of Annapolis Road in Lanham, officials said. Prince George’s County police detectives were investigating an earlier…
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‘Smack them with a hymnal’: Authorities train church leaders to respond if tragedy strikes
WESTMINSTER, Md. – A Maryland sheriff reached out to a few churches to gauge interest in a training session on how to react if a mass gunman entered their house of worship. Sixty people signed up, but on the day of the training, 120 attended in the standing-room-only basement of a sheriff’s office training facility…
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‘My actions were despicable’: Catholic priest steps down after revealing he was a Ku Klux Klan member decades ago
Forty years ago, William Aitcheson was a University of Maryland student and Ku Klux Klan member who burned a cross in the front yard of a black newlywed couple’s home. He was sentenced to jail time and ordered to pay about $20,000 to the family. Then he found God. Aitcheson went on to attend seminary in…
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Rep. Scalise discharged from hospital weeks after shooting, beginning rehabilitation
Rep. Steve Scalise, who was wounded six weeks ago when a man opened fire at a GOP baseball practice in Alexandria, Va., was discharged from MedStar Washington Hospital Center. MedStar Washington said Wednesday that the House majority whip was discharged a day earlier and will begin intensive inpatient rehabilitation.” The hospital also said in a brief…
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Sextuplets born in Virginia to couple who spent 17 years trying to conceive a child
For 17 years, Ajibola and Adeboye Taiwo tried to have a child but had no luck. Until now — times six. Ajibola Taiwo gave birth to sextuplets this month at a Richmond hospital, and doctors said the three boys and three girls, along with their mother, are doing well. It is the first time sextuplets…
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F-16 fighter jet crashes, pilot parachutes out in Maryland
An F-16 fighter jet that was on a training mission crashed Wednesday morning in Maryland, and a pilot parachuted out of the plane, authorities said. Officials for Joint Base Andrews said in a statement that the plane was an F-16C fighter jet from the Air National Guard’s 113th Fighter Wing. The crash happened around 9:15…
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Bao Bao, the National Zoo’s giant panda, heads to China
The drivers and trucks, including one backup, arrived and Bao Bao, the giant panda at the National Zoo munched her last breakfast Tuesday at the Washington facility where she was born before she heads out on a long flight to China. On the menu: bamboo. Around midday, Bao Bao will enter a crate and board…
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Horse meat and genitals hidden in juice boxes seized by Dulles customs agents
Customs and Border Protection agents at Dulles International Airport seized 42 pounds of horse meat and horse genitals hidden in juice boxes, officials said Thursday. The incident happened in late January, officials said, when two women arrived at the airport from Mongolia. One of them said she had food in her bags and after a…