ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — An ex-Marine on Friday was sentenced to death for the 2009 murder of a Navy sailor at a barracks in northern Virginia. The sentencing of Jorge Torrez, 25, of Zion, Illinois, was a formality. A jury last month decided unanimously to impose the death penalty for the murder of Navy Petty […]
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Judge Orders Renoir Painting Returned to the Baltimore Museum of Art
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A federal judge has ruled that a napkin-sized painting by French impressionist Pierre-Auguste Renoir should be returned to a Baltimore museum from which it was stolen years ago. A Virginia woman claimed she bought it at a flea market for $7. Judge Leonie Brinkema (LAY’-eh-nee BRIHNK’-eh-mah) on Friday rejected a claim […]
Posted inAfro Briefs
Va. Parents Forgive Neighbor for Killing Teen Son
STERLING, Va. (AP) — The parents of a northern Virginia teenager have a message for the man who shot and killed the 16-year-old: They don’t blame him. They forgive him. The teen, Caleb Gordley, died Sunday, shot and killed by his neighbor two doors down. His parents, Shawn and Jennea Gordley, said Caleb sneaked out […]
Posted inReligion, Washington D.C. News
Relief, Anger at Washington-Area Mosque Where al-Awlaki Preached
FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — At the Washington-area mosque where Anwar al-Awlaki preached a decade ago, there were few tears over the death of the influential al-Qaida figure who more than anyone gave the Dar al-Hijrah Islamic Center its unwanted association with international terrorism. But some found the way he was killed to be un-American. […]
