Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal and his Kingdom Holding Co announce a $300m investment in social media site Twitter.

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Twitter gets Saudi cash injection

Jack Johnson finally said he was sorry this past week. But it was too little — and way too late. The former Prince George’s county executive became famous/infamous (there’s almost no difference anymore, is there?) after being arrested more than a year ago for his lead role in a widespread political corruption case that saw Johnson bank $1 million in bribes. Read full article > >

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Who had the worst week in Washington? Former Pr. George’s executive Jack Johnson.

Hours after a man and woman were fatally shot in the parking lot of Arundel Mills mall in Hanover, the suspected assailant was killed Saturday morning in Prince George’s County in an exchange of gunfire that also left one Prince George’s police officer wounded, authorities said. James Edward Coleman, 22, of District Heights was shot by police after officers from Prince George’s and Anne Arundel counties arrived at the single-family home he shared with his parents on Rydal Road, police said. Read full article > >

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The Foreign Office has published details of weird requests made to British consular staff abroad in the last six months – including a request for the Prince of Wales’ shoe size.

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Not all of the jurors were ready to acquit when deliberations began in the corruption trial of Maryland state Sen. Ulysses Currie, according to two of the jurors. Some had been impressed with the prosecution’s evidence against the Prince George’s County Democrat. And at times, it got pretty heated in the jury room. Read full article > >

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The News of the World was engaged in covert surveillance on a huge scale – with targets including Prince William – BBC Newsnight has learned.

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Royal couple to move in 2013 with Prince Harry.

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Kensington Palace to be Will and Kate’s Home

Saudi Arabia names Prince Salman bin Abdulaziz as new defence minister after the death of Crown Prince Sultan.

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An attorney for Maryland Sen. Ulysses Currie said Thursday that the corruption case against the Prince George’s County Democrat had been built on selective and misleading evidence, and he urged jurors to acquit his client. “Ulysses Currie is not some trophy to be used to enhance the reputation of federal prosecutors,” Joseph L. Evans, an assistant federal public defender, said a few hours before the case went to the jury Thursday afternoon. “He did not do what he is accused of doing.” Read full article > >

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A D.C. Superior Court judge wants a 10-year-old boy who has been stuck in a Children’s National Medical Center psychiatric ward for more than a month to be discharged from the hospital Monday. Senior Judge Eugene N. Hamilton’s declaration on Thursday indicates that the boy’s unusual stay in the hospital could soon end. The boy was admitted Sept. 15 after stabbing a relative and threatening suicide, court papers say. Since then neither his mother — his father does not have custody rights — nor Prince George’s County authorities, where she lives, have come for him. The hospital eventually sued them for the boy’s release, saying it can no longer offer him the care he needs. Read full article > >

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Members of Jericho City of Praise in Landover say they are taking their cues from the Bible’s Old Testament book of Joshua in staging a seven-day protest to support their pastor, Joel R. Peebles, who last week was barred by a Prince George’s County court from handling the church’s finances. Hundreds of members converged on the church parking lot at dusk Tuesday, prompted that afternoon by a simple message on Facebook: “Occupy Jericho at 6:30.” They marched around the blue-and-white church, singing, dancing and praying out loud, similar to the biblical account of the Battle of Jericho. Afterward, they rallied inside the 10,000-seat sanctuary. Read full article > >

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An illegal immigrant who was charged with drunken driving last year when he struck a car carrying three nuns, killing one and injuring the others, was convicted Monday of felony murder. Carlos A. Martinelly-Montano’s case ignited outrage and prompted calls for stricter immigration enforcement. During a hearing in Prince William Circuit Court, the facts of what happened Aug. 1, 2010, were not in dispute: Martinelly-Montano swerved his Subaru into a guardrail and then veered into the opposite lane on a slim, two-lane road in Bristow, colliding with the nuns’ blue Toyota. Read full article > >

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Martinelly guilty of felony murder in drunken-driving crash that killed one nun, injured two others, in Va.

The man charged with killing a nun and maiming two others in a Prince William County car crash last year was found guilty Monday of felony murder. Carlos A. Martinelly-Montano, 24, of Bristow slammed his car into another with three nuns inside about 8 a.m. on Aug. 1, 2010. The crash on Bristow Road in Bristow killed Sister Denise Mosier, 66, and seriously injured Sisters Connie Ruth Lupton and Charlotte Lange. All three belonged to the Benedictine Sisters of Virginia, who have a monastery in the town just west of Manassas. Read full article > >

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When an illegal immigrant was accused last year of driving drunk and causing a crash in Prince William County that killed a nun , the case unleashed a wave of anger and became a touchstone for supporters of stricter immigration enforcement. With the murder trial of Carlos Martinelly-Montano set to begin in the county’s Circuit Court on Monday, the political reverberations of the case are still playing out and will probably do so long after the verdict is read. Read full article > >

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Prince Nayef to take the late Prince Sultan’s place.

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Saudi Arabia Names New Crown Prince