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A Loudoun County grand jury indicted former Virginia state Senate candidate Mark D. Tate on felony election fraud charges, three months after a judge dismissed similar charges, according to court records.

A 74-year-old man was shot to death outside his home in Olney last night, Montgomery County police said, and Prince George’s County police are investigating the fatal shooting of an unidentified man early this morning.

A fourth victim came forward yesterday to report injuries in a shooting Tuesday near a Southeast Washington high school, and police said they believe the attack erupted after a verbal dust-up on the street.

A man who had successfully appealed two convictions for murdering a couple in 1999 in the veterinary hospital they ran in Bladensburg accepted a plea agreement this week and was sentenced to 50 years in prison.

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Three students from Ballou High were shot and wounded yesterday afternoon just after leaving the Southeast Washington school, police said.

The manager of a shoe store in Oxon Hill was shot and wounded during a robbery yesterday, Prince George’s County police said.

An Annandale man who was struck by two hit-and-run drivers in Fairfax County last week died yesterday, Fairfax police said.

Defense lawyers took a different approach as the retrial of Alfredo R. Prieto on two murder charges began yesterday in Fairfax County, choosing this time not to tell the jury that their 42-year-old client is on death row for a slaying in California.