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New Nike shoe with outer space theme causes frenzy

Last updated Friday, February 24, 2012 - 4:45pm

Sneaker fanatics who lined up outside stores overnight for a first crack at a new outer-space themed Nike basketball shoe have become so unruly in some cities that police have been called to restore order.

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(MANUEL BALCE CENETA/The Associated Press) Sheila Brockington, project director of Family and Medical Counseling Service, Inc., left, and Deputy Director Angela Wood hold a swab kit outside the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) office in southeast Washington. At one office of the Department of Motor Vehicles in the U.S. capital, motorists can get a driver’s license, temporary road tax stickers and something wholly unrelated to the road: a free HIV test.

At DC DMV: Driver’s license, tag renewal, HIV test

Jessica Gresko The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, November 22, 2011 - 8:31am

WASHINGTON — At one Department of Motor Vehicles’ office in the nation’s capital, motorists can get a driver’s license, temporary tags and something wholly unrelated to the road: a free HIV test.

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This image provided by the U.S. Park Police shows an undated image of Oscar Ortega. U.S. Park Police have an arrest warrant out for Ortega, who is believed to be connected to a bullet hitting an exterior window of the White House Friday and was stopped by ballistic glass. An additional round of ammunition was also found on the exterior of the White House. The bullets were found Tuesday Nov. 15, 2011. (AP Photo/U.S. Park Police)

Details unfold in shots fired at White House, Idaho suspect

Brett Zongker, Jessica Gresko The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, November 17, 2011 - 12:49pm

WASHINGTON -- A man clad in black who was obsessed with President Barack Obama pulled his car within view of the White House at night and fired shots from an assault rifle, cracking a window of the first family's living quarters while the president was away, authorities said about their still-developing investigation.

The Secret Service found two bullets had hit the White House and agents caught up with Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez in Pennsylvania on Wednesday after a four-day search. Police arrested the 21-year-old Idaho man at a hotel after a desk clerk recognized his picture. Ortega was scheduled to make his first appearance at 2 p.m. Thursday in federal court in Pittsburgh. Many questions remained about his motive and background.

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(GAIL BURTON/The Associated Press) In this Sept. 19, 2008 handout photo provided by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, astronomer Adam Riess sits in his office at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences says American Saul Perlmutter, U.S.-Australian citizen Brian Schmidt and U.S. scientist Adam Riess share the 2011 Nobel Prize in physics. The trio were honored Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2011 “for the discovery of the acclerating expansion of the universe through observations of distant supernovae.”

Md. prof shares Nobel over faster growing universe

Jessica Gresko The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, October 4, 2011 - 7:31am

WASHINGTON — A Johns Hopkins University professor was one of three scientists awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for discovering that the universe is expanding at a faster and faster rate, contrary to science’s conventional wisdom.

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(Associated Press file photo) Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., smiles as he sits with daughter Kara Kennedy at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston in May 2008. Kara, the oldest child of the senator who died Aug. 25, 2009, died Friday at a Washington-area health club, says brother Patrick Kennedy. The 51-year-old had battled lung cancer, which left her weakened, her brother says. “Her heart gave out. She’s with Dad.”

Kara Kennedy, daughter of Ted Kennedy, dies at 51 after workout

Andrew Miga, Jessica Gresko The Associated Press

Last updated Sunday, September 18, 2011 - 6:12pm

WASHINGTON — Kara Kennedy became teary-eyed when she accepted the Presidential Medal of Freedom on behalf of her ailing father at a 2009 White House ceremony, but she also managed to smile as Sen. Ted Kennedy’s life was honored. After the senator died two weeks later following a battle with brain cancer, his only daughter read a psalm at his funeral Mass in Boston. It was about peace and justice and caring for poor children.

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Amanda Haines (left) and Fernando Campo Amor, prosecutors in the murder case of Washington intern Chandra Levy, leave the District of Columbia Superior Court in Washington, Friday, Feb. 11, 2011. Ingmar Guandique, the man convicted of killing Washington intern Chandra Levy nearly a decade ago, was sentenced Friday to 60 years in prison.

Man gets 60 years in prison in Levy slaying

Jessica Gresko, The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, February 11, 2011 - 2:19pm

WASHINGTON -- The man convicted of killing Washington intern Chandra Levy nearly a decade ago was sentenced Friday to 60 years in prison.

In November, a jury convicted Ingmar Guandique of first-degree murder in Levy's 2001 disappearance and death, despite a lack of witnesses and no DNA evidence linking him to the crime.

Levy's mother, Susan Levy, asked Guandique directly if he had been responsible for her daughter's death. He shook his head.

"Mr. Guandique, you are lower than a cockroach," Susan Levy told Guandique, before closing her statement with: "F... you."

Guandique, wearing an orange prison jumpsuit, told the judge in Spanish that he was sorry for what happened. But, he added, "I had nothing to do with it. I am innocent."

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Frances Street in Annapolis, Md., is blocked off as officials investigate a suspicious package in the Jeffery Building, Thursday, Jan. 6, 2011. Two packages sent to state government buildings 20 miles apart released smoke and odors when they were opened Thursday, but no one was seriously injured, officials said.

3rd package ignites at Washington postal facility

Ben Nuckols, Jessica Gresko, The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, January 7, 2011 - 5:12pm

WASHINGTON — A package an official said was addressed to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano ignited Friday at a Washington postal facility, a day after fiery packages sent to Maryland’s governor and transportation secretary burned the fingers of workers who opened them.

Authorities were bracing for more packages to surface.

“Right now we don’t have any other packages, but we’re not taking anything for granted,” D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier said.

Initial information indicated the parcel that ignited in northeast Washington about 2:45 p.m. was similar to the two packages opened in Maryland on Thursday, authorities said. The Washington postal facility was evacuated after an employee discovered a parcel that looked similar to the Maryland mailings, authorities said. No injuries were reported.

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Washington weddings begin for same-sex couples

Jessica Gresko The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, March 9, 2010 - 9:12am

WASHINGTON -- It's a day of wedding bells for some gay couples in Washington as same-sex pairs began picking up marriage licenses on their first eligible day after the law changed last week.

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(CLIFF OWEN/The Associated Press) Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton, D-D.C., poses for a photograph Feb. 25 in the rotunda of the Cannon House Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington.

Congress slowly loosens its grip on Washington, DC

Jessica Gresko The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, March 4, 2010 - 2:49pm

WASHINGTON -- Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton didn't flinch when comedian Stephen Colbert congratulated her on Washington, D.C., becoming a state.

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(The Associated Press) Artwork made from Peeps is seen inside the Peeps & Company Store at National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Md. on Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2009.

A monument to the marshmallow opens near DC

Jessica Gresko The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, December 9, 2009 - 9:12pm

SLIDESHOW: Peeps & Company Store

OXON HILL, Md. -- It's almost Christmas, but one company wants its fans thinking about chicks and bunnies -- year-round.

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Bill allowing same-sex marriage in DC introduced

Jessica Gresko The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, October 6, 2009 - 2:12pm

WASHINGTON -- Same-sex couples would be allowed to marry in the nation's capital under a bill introduced Tuesday by a District of Columbia councilman.