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Carjackings dropped nearly 30 percent, and auto thefts also fell sharply last year in Prince George’s County, leading an overall decrease in violent and property crimes, according to preliminary statistics released yesterday.

When you get caught stealing computers from a school for children with special needs because you hitch a ride from the school’s administrator, you’re lucky the administrator doesn’t pull the paddle out from under his desk that he named “Ol’ Detention” that the state hasn’t let him use since the Carter Administration.

Curious to know whether a registered sex offender lives on your block? Thinking all the talk of car break-ins near your house might be nothing but neighborhood hysteria?

Drunks and lawnmowers go together like peanut butter and butter. Sure the two weren’t made for each other, but when they accidentally go together, they can create something magical.

A Maryland state prison inmate who killed a correctional officer during an escape from a Hagerstown hospital two years ago was sentenced yesterday to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

More than a third of the 157 children and young adults who died in the District in 2006 came from troubled families that had contact with the city’s child welfare system, according to a D.C. government report published this month. Homicides accounted for nearly a quarter of the fatalities.

We normally don’t use the words “funny” and “security camera” in the same sentence very often. If we did, we could probably turn it into a television show or something if we could also live with the amount of dignity we’d have to chip off of our souls.

A District teenager was ordered held without bond yesterday on charges stemming from a drive-by shooting that wounded five young people Jan. 11 in Southeast Washington.

A detainee in the Prince George’s County jail was injured yesterday when he was attacked by seven gang members in a holding area as they waited to be transferred to court for hearings, authorities said.

D.C. police have arrested a teenager in a drive-by shooting that wounded five young people in Southeast Washington this month and said he is also a “strong person of interest” in the shooting of four Ballou High School students Tuesday.