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American University students launch SafeWalk to protect peers

After a series of groping incidents near American University's campus, students are launching a program in an attempt to keep their peers safe at night.

Friday - 10/19/2012, 10:19am EDT

Tags: American University, assault, mark segraves

Women report assaults near AU campus

American University in Northwest Washington is under alert after four students reported they were groped by a man in a dark hooded sweatshirt over the past week.

Monday - 10/01/2012, 11:05pm EDT

Tags: American University, andrew mollenbeck

Hoops tourney fights crime one shot at a time

Montgomery County kids faced off on the basketball court Saturday during the 2nd Annual Audacity of Hoops 3-on-3 youth basketball tournament. The tourney aims to curb youth violence that has plagued the downtown Silver Spring area.

Saturday - 09/15/2012, 06:19pm EDT

Tags: crime, police, youth violence,

Mexico arrests suspect in Fast and Furious killing

Mexican federal police announced Friday that they have arrested a suspect in the killing of U.S. Border Patrol agent Brian Terry, the slaying at the center of the scandal over the botched U.S. gun-smuggling probe known as Operation Fast and Furious.

Saturday - 09/08/2012, 08:08am EDT

Tags: Fast and Furious, Mexico, gun smuggling, FBI

Coal driver charged with DUI when truck overturns

A Virginia man faces a drunken driving charge after his tractor-trailer loaded with coal overturned in a yard in southeastern Kentucky.

Wednesday - 09/05/2012, 10:18am EDT

Tags: police, coal, Virginia

D.C. police ID body found as 54-year-old man

Wednesday - 08/29/2012, 08:01am EDT

Tags: dc police, homicide,