A 19-year-old man who allegedly attacked a woman outside the Columbia Heights Metro station was charged with a hate crime this week — 10 days, the victim says, after seven police officers refused to take action immediately after the attack. Christian Washington of Northwest Washington was charged with bias-related assault Tuesday. The police response to the attack, in which five lesbians were attacked by at least two men, attracted scrutiny from members of the city’s gay, lesbian and transgender community after the victims said responding officers refused to take a report. Read full article > >

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D.C. man charged with hate crime against lesbian

A fatal accident inquiry into a Scottish swine flu death hears the victim was relieved when told by doctors he did not have the virus.

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Swine flu bug ‘missed by doctor’

The appointment of Sheila Birnbaum represents a major step in the implementation of a law Congress passed late last year to reopen Sept. 11th Victim Compensation Fund.

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The home invaders who fatally shot a heroic handyman as he defended a Centreville family last year were hiding in the garage of the mansion for about 30 minutes before the victim spotted them, Fairfax County police said Tuesday. Police think four people were involved in the plot to break into the 9,000-square-foot house of a local business owner, and on Tuesday they released a photo of the late-1970s-model Toyota pickup the suspects used to flee the Compton Road area May 17, 2010. On the first anniversary of the shooting death of Jose R. Cardona, 39, police also released excerpts from a 911 call made from the home. One or both suspects can be heard ordering the family members and Cardona to get “down” and “Get off me.” Graphic language and frightened screams for mercy can be heard, and in between those is the muffled fatal shot. Read full article > >

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A man accused of two double murders in Pembrokeshire in the 1980s is shown a shotgun on which traces of one of the victim’s blood was found.

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A former medical student was sentenced Tuesday to 13 years in prison for using a Taser to attack a pregnant woman in a crime that a Montgomery County judge called a “pre-planned reign of terror.” Christine DeVaux, 39, slipped into the home of her victim, her boyfriend’s daughter-in-law, one Friday in June. DeVaux said she thought the victim and the victim’s husband were interfering in her relationship. When the victim, Lynae Mattson, returned home, DeVaux used the Taser on Mattson and beat her, saying she “never wanted it to come to this,” police and prosecutors have said. Mattson, who was eight months pregnant, escaped and ran to a nearby house in her neighborhood, just south of Damascus. Read full article > >

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A 24-year-old who was stabbed to death in South Africa is the victim of “corrective rape,” gay rights activists said Thursday, a crime where men attack lesbians in an attempt to reverse their sexual orientation.

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In a letter to a House panel looking into data breaches on Wednesday, Sony said that it is the victim of a large, sophisticated cyber attack. Sony executive Kazuo Hirai said the company believes it has identified the cause of the first attack, though not who is behind it. He said the firm found evidence that Anonymous, the loosely organized hacker group that has targeted the company in the past, is responsible for the attacks. The group has publicly denied involvement. Hirai said in the letter responding to inquiries from a House Commerce subcommittee that intruders had planted a file on Sony’s hacked servers “named ‘Anonymous’ with the words ‘We Are Legion,’” a reference to the group’s motto. Read full article > >

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The mother of a woman police identified as one of four found dead on waterfront property on New York’s Long Island told CNN a man using the victim’s cell phone made taunting calls and claimed he killed 24-year-old Melissa Barthelemy.

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Mom: N.Y. ‘killer’ made taunting calls

Whoever made a series of taunting phone calls to a victim’s teenage sister, using the victim’s cellphone, took care to elude detection.

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Serial Killer in L.I. Case Is Seen as Versed in Police Techniques

Julian Assange has claimed another victim: Ecuador asked U.S. Ambassador Heather Hodges to leave the country following the release of a diplomatic cable by WikiLeaks on Monday. In the cable, Hodges suggests that President Rafael Correa knew about…

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Ecuador Ousts U.S. Envoy Over WikiLeaks

A woman tied up by a gunman in November at a McLean Blockbuster was the victim in a similar attack in Manhattan 15 years ago.

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Lululemon attack a rarity in retail, but a D.C. area woman has twice been a victim

Court documents and an exclusive interview with the father of an 11-year-old girl who the police say was the victim of repeated gang rapes in East Texas paint a grim portrait of an episode that lasted many months.

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3-Month Nightmare Emerges in Rape Inquiry

After upsetting readers with an initial story that some said blamed the victim, The New York Times has printed a follow up to its story about the alleged gang rape of an 11-year-old girl in Cleveland, Texas by 19 men. The story includes the first…

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Texas Rape Victim’s Family Speaks

For 90 minutes, authorities say, Brittany Norwood sat in her victim’s parked car, concocting a plan to cover up the horrendous crime scene. Her colleague, Jayna Murray, lay dead, bludgeoned and stabbed inside Bethesda’s Lululemon Athletica shop, prosecutors say. There was something tied around Murray’s neck. There was blood everywhere .

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Prosecutor in Bethesda slaying describes wild cover-up story