Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is investigating Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell after a campaign donor paid for catering and flowers at his daughter’s wedding, The Atlantic reports. The probes centers around whether McDonnell violated campaign finance laws when Star Scientific picked up the $15,000 tab for food and flowers at the wedding in 2011. The…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com John Hinckley, the man who shot President Ronald Reagan in 1981, has been behaving well. The Associated Press reports that he’s behaved well in the past year when leaving his home, a psychiatric hospital in Washington, to visit his mother in nearby Virginia. AP reported that Secret Service agents trailed Hinckley…
By Jeremy Borden Washington Post A 25-year-old Woodbridge man accused of killing a former federal law enforcement officer during what police said was a robbery gone wrong has been indicted on a capital murder charge. If convicted, Aric A. Smith could face the death penalty in the killing of Gregory Holley, 55. Holley, retired as…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com After nearly two years as special agent in charge of the Denver FBI office, James F. Yacone is on his way out to head up an elite FBI unit called Critical Incident Response Group in Virginia, the Denver Post reports. James F. Yacone plans to exit March 15, and he’ll replace Robert…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The federal government is hoping to trade the FBI headquarters in Washington D.C. for a new home without any additional costs, the Washington Business Journal reports. Officials from the FBI and General Services Administration met with about 350 interested developers last week to outline the plan, the Journal wrote. The FBI is…
By David S. Fallis, Washington Post WASHINGTON — During the 10-year federal ban on assault weapons, the percentage of firearms equipped with high-capacity magazines seized by police agencies in Virginia dropped, only to rise sharply once the restrictions were lifted in 2004, according to an analysis by The Washington Post. The White House is leading…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The competition for a new FBI headquarters and thousands of new jobs now includes Montgomery County, a suburban D.C. County in Maryland, the Washington Post reports. Montgomery joins Prince George County in Maryland and Fairfax County and Alexandria in Virginia to the list of places soliciting developers and consulting with federal officials…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Virginia and Maryland are stepping up competition to land the new headquarters of the FBI, the Washington Examiner reports. Drawn by the promise of 12,000 new jobs and an infusion of new tax revenue, the states and cities are lobbying hard to replace the current headquarters in Washington D.C., the four-decade-old J….
