Matthew Barakat

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Trial underway in patent case against Facebook

Matthew Barakat · June 11, 2014 7:14 pm

Hundreds at DC VA hospital waiting for appointment

Matthew Barakat · June 9, 2014 10:04 pm

Ex-Marine Torrez gets death sentence

Matthew Barakat · May 30, 2014 5:59 pm

Ex-DC lawmaker Brown gets 3 years for bribes

Matthew Barakat · May 29, 2014 9:31 pm

FILE - This April 10, 1996 file photo shows Michael A. Brown attending funeral services for his father, former Commerce Secretary Ron Brown at the Washington's National Cathedral in Washington. Former District of Columbia Councilmember Brown could be sentenced to nearly four years in prison for taking more than $50,000 in bribes in an undercover FBI sting. A federal judge in Washington will sentence Brown Thursday afternoon. Prosecutors are asking for a prison term of 43 months, the most he could get under the terms of a plea bargain he struck last year. Brown's lawyers are hoping for a more lenient sentence. (AP Photo/Denis Paquin, File)

Ex-DC lawmaker Brown gets 3 years for bribes

Matthew Barakat · May 29, 2014 8:37 pm

Contracting officer’s new job raises questions

Matthew Barakat · May 23, 2014 9:19 pm

This police booking photo provided by the Loudoun County Sheriff's Office shows Charles Severance, 53. Authorities say Severance, wanted in Virginia for questioning in three unsolved slayings in the past decade, has been extradited from West Virginia on an unrelated weapons charge to Loudoun County, Va. (AP Photo/Loudoun County Sheriff)

Va. man wanted for questioning extradited from WV

Matthew Barakat · May 6, 2014 7:36 pm

Va. ‘Dreamers’ eligible for in-state tuition

Matthew Barakat · April 29, 2014 6:46 pm

Comstock wins GOP nomination for Va. House seat

Matthew Barakat · April 26, 2014 11:15 pm

This undated handout photo provided by the Arlington County, Va. Police Department shows Jorge Torrez. Prosecutors have urged a federal jury to impose the death penalty on an ex-Marine who murdered a Navy sailor, saying it's the only adequate punishment for a man who has committed a series of sexually motivated attacks. The jury heard closing arguments Thursday in federal court in Alexandria in the trial of 25-year-old Jorge Torrez. (AP Photo/Arlington County, Va. Police Department)

Ex-Marine sentenced to die in sailor’s slaying

Matthew Barakat · April 24, 2014 7:13 pm

This undated handout photo provided by the Arlington County, Va. Police Department shows Jorge Torrez. An Illinois grandfather shook in the witness chair as he told jurors about discovering his 8-year-old granddaughter and her best friend dead from stab wounds in a park where they had been playing, an attack prosecutors say was committed by an ex-Marine now on trial for his life. A jury in U.S. District Court Tuesday, April 22, 2014, heard testimony linking the 2005 slayings of 8-year-old Laura Hobbs and 9-year-old Krystal Tobias, to Jorge Torrez, a neighbor of the girls in their hometown of Zion, Ill., about an hour north of Chicago. (AP Photo/Arlington County, Va. Police Department)

Death penalty case shifts focus to slain Ill. kids

Matthew Barakat · April 22, 2014 10:38 pm

Bizarre behavior fuels questions in Va. killings

Matthew Barakat · April 22, 2014 7:17 pm