Ex-IRS specialist pleads guilty

A 62-year-old former Internal Revenue Service agent pleaded guilty to failing to file a federal income tax return. John Venuti, of Anne Arundel County, owes $789,629 for six years of unpaid taxes, authorities said. Venuti did not file taxes from 2001 to 2006. His income totaled $3.6 million during that time. Venuti worked for the IRS from 1974 to 1983. He was later a tax consultant and principal at the accounting firm KPMG.

Man convicted in road rage

slaying of ex-cop’s son

A Silver Spring man was found guilty in the 1990 shooting of a retired police officer’s son. It took less than two hours of deliberations for the D.C. jury to find John B. Holmes, 42, guilty in the road rage killing of Ronald Jones Jr. A witness who was with Holmes came forward recently and identified him as the killer.