Woman, 67, killed in Aspen Hill house fire
A 67-year-old woman was killed in an early-morning house fire in Aspen Hill.
Firefighters responded to the blaze on the 4700 block of Iris Street at about 4 a.m. Thursday, according to Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service.
A man had escaped and was found outside the single-family home, authorities said, and firefighters found a woman unconscious and unresponsive in a bedroom of the house.
She was taken to a hospital, where she was pronounced dead. She was later identified as Sandra Vidas.
The man was hospitalized with serious, but not life-threatening injuries. The two were the only people inside the home.
Two firefighters suffered minor injuries.
The fire department said the cause of the fire is under investigation.
Newspaper delivery man admits to stealing credit cards
A newspaper delivery man pleaded guilty Thursday to using credit cards that he stole from mailboxes along his route in Montgomery County.
Andre Tyler, 42, of Germantown, was a newspaper delivery man for WilCan Services LLC, a contractor for The Washington Examiner. From December 2010 until his arrest in May, Tyler took mail from the boxes along his route, kept the credit cards, and tossed the other mail, prosecutors said. His route was in the Gaithersburg and Germantown area, mainly off Route 108.
Tyler stole between $5,000 and $10,000 worth of goods, services and cash, prosecutors said.
MS-13 leaders indicted
Five MS-13 leaders were indicted on racketeering charges, including accusations that they ordered and carried out murders in the D.C. region, federal prosecutors in Washington said. A total of 16 defendants now face charges in the case. The indictment alleges that two of the defendants ran the D.C.-based operations from prisons in El Salvador.
— Emily Babay and Scott McCabe
