Usually, the Occupy D.C. protesters at Freedom Plaza battle corporate greed and taxes. On Tuesday night, their biggest battle was against hypothermia. The dwindling number of residents zipped up their tents, swallowed vitamins and swaddled themselves in clothing as temperatures dipped into the teens . “Thank God I have blankets,’’ said Blair Rush, a 41-year-old homeless woman as she moved back into her tent, her body warmed by at least three layers of clothing. “I don’t do cold.” Rush doesn’t do cold, but she knows cold. She said she has been homeless for four years, ever since she stopped being able to make her mortgage payments. She tried the shelter system, but too many people were scared of her service dog, Kelo. Read full article > >

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Occupiers’ new foe: freezing cold in D.C.

Police have issued an arrest warrant for a man who they said is a suspect in a bizarre series of attacks in which young women were slashed in the buttocks at busy Fairfax County shopping malls. Fairfax police are looking for 40-year-old Johnny D. Guillen Pimentel, who they believe may have left the area. Police said he might be driving a blue 2003 Honda Civic with the Virginia tag KLX2689. Pimentel so far is being sought in one of the attacks, but police previously have said they think the same man has cut nine women in their teens and early 20s since February. Read full article > >

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Mall slashings: Police issue arrest warrant for suspect

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Four teens are facing murder charges after a fifth teen was beaten to death at a Georgia house party that got out of control, authorities said Sunday.

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