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D.C. man sentenced for golf club assault

A D.C. man was sentenced Friday for attacking another man with a golf club during a dispute over a car blocking an exit to a parking lot, the office of the U.S. Attorney for the District said.

September 8, 2012
Ben Heller of Bloomfield Hills, Mich, with his wife Gabby and their daughter Zoe, 13, speak with Park Ranger Eric Pominville on Monday about the quote on the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial on the Mall. “I think if you’re going to quote somebody, you should quote them properly,” Mr. Heller said about the paraphrased line. “It is etched in stone, but it can be fixed?” (Eva Russo/Special to The Washington Times)

WORDS: Date for MLK memorial words speeding up

We pointed out in a story by Tom Howell Jr. last week that the controversial "drum major" quote inscribed on the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial had not been changed despite pledges from the National Park Service six months ago to fix it.

September 3, 2012
** FILE ** Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

IN OTHER WORDS: Game of ‘gotcha’ on Medicaid provision

The seemingly ever-escalating war of words between friendly rivals Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley and Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell continued last week -- just in time to coincide with Mr. McDonnell's hosting of the National Governors Association's annual meeting held in Williamsburg, Va.

July 15, 2012
George Allen (right), a former Virginia governor and U.S. senator, greets voter Rod Wood of Fairfax Station at the Silver Brook Elementary School precinct in Fairfax Station on Tuesday, June 12, 2012. Mr. Allen is running in the Virginia's Republican primary in an effort to reclaim the Senate seat he lost to Jim Webb, a Democrat, in 2006. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

IN OTHER WORDS: Allen has sporting response on UVa.

It's no secret that U.S. Senate candidate George Allen likes to sprinkle in sports metaphors while on the stump. One can hardly blame him: His father and namesake never had a losing season when he coached the then-Los Angeles Rams and Washington Redskins, and his brother Bruce Allen is the Redskins' general manager.

July 1, 2012
Utility workers secure power lines as their team repairs electrical wires downed by fallen trees in Springfield, Va. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

Power may be out for a week for some customers

Outages numbered in the hundreds of thousands for a second day, as officials warned residents across Maryland, the District and Virginia that power might not be restored until late in the week and crews worked in temperatures nearing triple digits to make repairs from a devastating storm that claimed more than a dozen lives.

July 1, 2012
U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. (Associated Press)

IN OTHER WORDS: Turnover on D.C. Council not driven by voters

With the bow tied neatly on the political career of former D.C. Council Chairman Kwame R. Brown, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. now has taken down two members of the 13-member legislative body in a scant few months. That's as many council members as D.C. voters have thrown out of office in total since the elections of 2004.

June 10, 2012
Loretta Nowakowski, president of the Democratic Club at the Greenspring retirement commmunity in Springfield, chats with Democratic Senate hopeful Tim Kaine, who was there to court seniors. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

IN OTHER WORDS: Mr. Kaine on Mr. Smith in Washington

U.S. Senate candidate Tim Kaine kept things clean in discussing Social Security and Medicare, as well as a range of other issues, last week at a forum at the Greenspring retirement community in Springfield.

May 28, 2012
Robert G. Marshall

IN OTHER WORDS: Va.’s Marshall says gay nominee not MLK

Virginia state Delegate Robert G. Marshall surely knew he wouldn't exactly get a friendly reception when he appeared on CNN on Thursday in the wake of the Virginia House of Delegates' Tuesday vote against the nomination of Richmond's chief deputy prosecutor Tracy-Thorne Begland, who is gay, for a judgeship in the city.

May 20, 2012
Cuccinelli

IN OTHER WORDS: Cuccinelli makes a case for accuracy

Virginia Attorney General Kenneth T. Cuccinelli II will be the first to tell you he isn't afraid to stick his neck out and criticize fellow Republicans or those of similar political persuasions.

May 13, 2012