9 hurt after school buses collide
Two school buses collided head-on in Northeast D.C. on Thursday, sending nine people — including several elementary school students — to area hospitals.
The crash happened at about 3 p.m. on Eastern Avenue NE, near Sheriff Road. Pete Piringer, spokesman for D.C. fire and emergency services, said police are investigating the circumstances of the crash.
One bus was from D.C. Public Schools and the other was from Prince George’s County.
Two adults suffered serious injuries. Two other adults and five children suffered minor injuries.
Couple charged in forced labor case
An Upper Marlboro couple is accused of abusing a Filipina woman who worked for them as a domestic servant.
Alfred Edwards, 73, and Gloria Edwards, 60, were indicted by a federal grand jury in Greenbelt. The indictment says they enticed the woman — an uneducated mother of eight — to come to the United States by falsely promising her a salary that would support her family in the Philippines. The couple is accused of getting a false visa for the woman, confiscating visa documents after she arrived and forcing her to work 13 hours of day using threats and assaults — including poking her with knives and threatening to shoot her — for more than 10 years.
10 years for armed heist of school Starbucks
A District man was sentenced to 10 years in prison stemming from an armed robbery of a Starbucks on the Howard University campus in which he impersonated a police officer.
Prosecutors said Ralph Clark, 50, walked into the Starbucks at the university bookstore in April 2010 and told an employee that he was an undercover officer investigating employees at the store. He pulled a gun out of his backpack, pointed it at a supervisor and demanded money, which he stuffed into his backpack, prosecutors said.
– Emily Babay and Scott McCabe
