Late Night Shots, the members-only social club for upwardly-mobile hard-partying Georgetown-centric prepsters that Washington City Paper infamously profiled in 2007, seems to have tamped down its ridiculousness in recent years. But it's still around, meaning participants this week got a chance to say astonishingly stupid things about the brutal sexual assault of CBS News' Lara [...]
During the fourth day of deliberations, Ingmar Guandique was found guilty of first-degree murder in the 2001 murder of Chandra Levy. The announcement came less than two hours after deliberation resumed Monday.
Guandique originally faced another count of first-degree felony murder for allegedly sexually assaulting Levy in the trial that started Oct. 25. The kidnapping and [...]
Andre Chreky, hairdresser to the stars (or at least the D.C. stars; Laura Bush was a client), has a big problem.
As a result of a scandalous sexual harassment trial that ended in March, Chreky was told to pay $2.3 million to Ronnie Barrett, a former colorist at his upscale K Street NW salon. According to [...]
You Just Lost Your Tip, Buddy: A cab driver reportedly pulled a knife on a rider after refusing to give change for a $20. On June 12, at about 1:15 a.m, a man tried to pay for his cab ride to a spot on the 1900 block of 17th Street NW with a $20 bill. The cabbie refused to make change. [...]
Fatal Fall: A George Washington University student has died after falling from a fifth-floor dormitory window, according to the GW Hatchet. On Sunday at around 4 a.m, Taylor Hubbard, 20, fell from a window located in Guthridge Hall. Cops believe there was no foul play involved. The Hatchet talked to one of the students who discovered [...]
An Annandale, Virginia, man has been found guilty in D.C. Superior Court of an incredibly sadistic series of sexual and physical assaults on a woman, including one that left her disfigured. Carlos W. Escalante, 31, will face up to sixty years in prison. According to court documents, a woman once involved with Escalante endured torture [...]
If famous D.C. hair poofer Andre Chreky, 52, was hoping to get out of his second sexual harassment trial when he filed for bankruptcy on March 22, well, so much for that quick snip.
Judge Royce Lamberth just set a date–August 9–for the start of the trial, in which Jennifer Thong, a former employee of Chreky's, will accuse the [...]
Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor would like you to know that she was misunderstood when she said that a wise Latina woman would come to a better decision than a white man. Yes, she's been repeating this line since the soundbite came out almost six weeks ago, but it seems to be the main focus [...]
According to the Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman, Sarah Palin, during her tenure as mayor of Wasilla, approved a policy to deny free forensic examinations for sexual assault victims. Former Alaska Gov. Tony Knowles disagreed with the policy, which was unique to Wasilla, and went on to sign a bill that "[made] it illegal for any law [...]
