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Prosecutor Ben Field strikes back against misconduct allegations, arguing that he should not be disciplined by the State Bar and is the target of a distorted ‘political campaign— to ruin his career.

Vigilance by fire officials and volunteers appears to have kept the number of arsons low in Detroit on Thursday, the night before Halloween, which had become notorious as “Devil’s Night” in years past.

A former Milpitas police officer who is suspected of repeatedly molesting a 14-year-old girl during a span of two years was arrested Thursday by San Jose police.

Benva Oshana Lazar, 56, of San Jose was taken into custody on suspicion of sexual battery by fraudulent representation, according to police Lt. Mark McIninch of the Sexual Assaults Unit.

A high school band teacher accused of pursuing a person he thought was an underage girl online to meet her for sex pleaded guilty Friday.

The first of two Fairfax County teenagers accused of punching out the teeth of another teen last Christmas Eve was sentenced yesterday to 20 days in juvenile detention.

The District government filed a $105 million lawsuit against Bank of America yesterday, seeking damages and penalties from the institution that cashed fraudulent checks through accounts controlled by Harriette Walters and others in the D.C. tax scam.

A Manassas teenager pleaded guilty this week to conspiring with her mother to have her father killed.

A police affidavit made public yesterday provided a wealth of new details about one of the District’s most mysterious homicide cases, yet it failed to answer the central questions of who killed prominent lawyer Robert Wone in an elegant Dupont Circle townhouse — and why.

A Southeast Washington woman accused of killing her four daughters was ordered transferred from the D.C. jail to St. Elizabeths Hospital yesterday for a psychiatric evaluation to determine whether she is mentally fit for trial.