Elderly couple found dead in Rockville home
Rockville police found the bodies of a couple, believed to be in their 70s, in their apartment in downtown Rockville.
Police said they were called to the 100 block of Monroe Street by neighbors who had grown concerned about the mounting pile of newspapers outside the couple’s door. Authorities said they found the bodies in separate rooms after building employees had to drill open the lock to their door. Police do not believe foul play was involved. They did not release the names of the man and woman.
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Former Washington Redskins player Bruce Smith was convicted of drunken driving by a judge in Virginia Beach, Va., who rejected his claim that old football injuries caused him to perform badly on his field sobriety tests.
Smith, 46, was given a 90-day suspended jail term. His appeal is scheduled less than three weeks after his induction into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Smith, a former Virginia Tech standout, played 19 years with the Buffalo Bills and the Redskins.
AIDS activists arrested in Capitol demonstration
A group of AIDS activists were arrested for unlawfully demonstrating in the U.S. Capitol. The group entered the rotunda and linked themselves together with a chain. They chanted and marched in a circle before lying on the ground. Eleven men and 15 women were charged with unlawful assembly and disorderly conduct.
Firefighters use saw to remove 1,000-plus-pound man from Clinton home
Prince George’s County firefighters pulled a man weighing more than 1,000 pounds from his home in Clinton after he became ill, a fire department spokesman said.
When first responders arrived at the home, they found he could not fit through the doorway, so they had to cut a hole in one of the rooms to expand the doorway, the spokesman said. They required a special cot to carry him to an ambulance and then the hospital.
– Compiled by Freeman Klopott and Scott McCabe
