DNA found on a weapon links a 41-year-old yoga instructor currently in Mexico to the killing of an American University professor, The Washington Post reports. The story also quotes an FBI affidavit that says Sue Ann Marcum and Jorge Landeros had a joint financial investment. “It is the first time authorities have linked a possible dispute over money to Marcum’s death,” The Post reports.
The Justice Department will not seek the death penalty against three men accused of multiple murders and running a violent drug gang in the Barry Farms neighborhood of Southeast Washington, Jim McElhatton reports in The Washington Times. Death penalty cases are rare, but not unheard of, in the nations capital, where residents have voted against capital punishment in local prosecutions. But federal authorities are not bound by the referendum, and they occasional bring death penalty cases in federal court.
P.G. County Executive Rushern Baker’s first major initiative has stalled, County executive, as Baker and the county council clash over whether a multimillion-dollar economic initiative fund the county may shell out to developers needs more oversight or more flexibility, the D.C. Examiner reports. “Council members want a more powerful compliance board, the ability to review grants and loans in excess of $250,000, and a 60-day review process to consider financial assistance for businesses Prince George’s officials are courting,” the paper reports. Baker calls the demands “cumbersome.”
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