Mom, Son Missing After Van Found on Wash. Beach
Mar 16, 2010 US
A woman heading to her stepfather’s house was “beyond lost” when she and her 8-year-old son took one wrong turn after another through the backroads of Thurston County and onto a private Puget Sound beach, authorities said Monday.
Post to debut Capital Business, publication on Washington business community
Mar 16, 2010 US
The Washington Post announced Monday that it is launching a weekly subscription publication focused on the greater Washington business community. Capital Business, which will be delivered Mondays with The Post newspaper, will feature coverage of government contracting, technology, the legal…
FBI, DEA join probe of slayings near Mexican border
Mar 16, 2010 US
Dozens of officials from the FBI, the Drug Enforcement Administration and other U.S. agencies joined an investigation Monday into the killings of three people tied to the U.S. Consulate in the Mexican city of Juarez, scrambling to determine whether the slayings marked an escalation in the region’s…
GAO blocks contract to firm formerly known as Blackwater to train Afghan police
Mar 16, 2010 US
Federal auditors on Monday put a stop to Army plans to award a $1 billion training program for Afghan police officers to the company formerly known as Blackwater, concluding that other companies were unfairly excluded from bidding on the job.
Pentagon to investigate intelligence unit that allegedly used contractors
Mar 16, 2010 US
The Pentagon said Monday that it was looking into allegations that a Defense Department official had set up an intelligence unit staffed by contractors to hunt insurgents in Afghanistan and Pakistan under the guise of social and cultural information-gathering.
National Digest: Stevens weighs summer retirement from Supreme Court
Mar 16, 2010 US
Justice John Paul Stevens, the leader of the Supreme Court’s liberal wing, told the New Yorker in an interview that he will decide early next month whether he will retire when the court’s current term ends in June.
Corrections
Mar 16, 2010 US
– A March 14 Outlook article about how colleges deal with campus sexual assault cases mischaracterized the policy at Bucknell University. The school does not use mediation to adjudicate such cases; rather, mediation is an option made available by Bucknell to victims of sexual assault in addition to…
After 13 years, police still hunting for the East Coast Rapist
Mar 16, 2010 US
He lurks at gas stations and pay phones and bus stops, blending in so well that people don’t notice him at first. He has a smooth, deep voice. He is black, he smokes and he is right-handed. He is in his early to mid-30s, is fit, stands about 6 feet tall, likes wearing camouflage clothes and black…
Updated ‘No Child’ law would focus on failing schools
Mar 16, 2010 US
For most public schools, the perceived heavy hand of the federal government would become a lighter touch under President Obama’s plan to rewrite the No Child Left Behind law. But for some, the consequences of academic failure would stiffen considerably.