Bhatt’s husband, Naresh, is charged with murder, concealing a dead body and physically defiling a dead body.

A new forensic report, performed by Virginia’s Department of Forensic Science, identified three human hairs, 13 hair fragments, apparent fibers and debris on a reciprocating saw in the Bhatts’ home.

A reciprocating saw is a handheld power tool with a blade that moves back and forth, commonly used to cut drywall and wood.

While police have not identified a murder weapon in filings or pretrial hearings, this is the second instance in which potential evidence was discovered on the same saw.

An October 2024 report from department of forensic science indicated blood found on parts of the reciprocating saw matched a DNA profile created from Mamta鈥檚 hairbrush.

Police believe Naresh killed his wife in their home, then dismembered her. Her body has never been found.

Prosecutors said they have video of him dropping several plastic and trash bags into a dumpster after dropping the couple鈥檚 child off with a babysitter on July 30, 2024.

Later that evening,听according to Senior Assistant Commonwealth鈥檚 Attorney Sarah Sami, Naresh purchased a 鈥�40-pack of extra strong black trash bags.鈥�

The heavy-duty trash bags were in addition to a set of knives he bought earlier in the day after shopping at Home Depot and Walmart.

Early the next morning, Naresh was also caught on video retrieving bags from his Tesla and putting them into a trash compactor, according to investigators.

Bhatt鈥檚 trial is scheduled to begin Oct. 10.

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A new took effect at 11:59 p.m. Wednesday, requiring all U.S.-bound passengers who have recently been in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda or East Sudan to first travel to Dulles Airport for enhanced Ebola screening, before continuing to their destination.

And the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued new guidance Thursday for travelers planning to travel to the U.S.

There are no direct flights to Dulles Airport from any of the three affected countries. However, each airline traveling to the U.S. with passengers who have traveled to the DRC, Uganda or East Sudan in the past 21 days will be required to fly to Dulles to be screened.

“CDC will conduct enhanced public health entry screening for these travelers and confirm their contact information for public health follow-up if recommended,” according to a CDC statement released late Thursday morning.

On Monday, suspending entry into the U.S. for foreign nationals from the three affected countries.

In its new guidance, the CDC explained the steps non-U.S. citizens should take to enter this country: “Travelers that have been in the DRC, Uganda, and South Sudan in the 21 days before their flight and are scheduled to travel to the United States while screening is taking place will be contacted by their airline to rebook travel to IAD,” which is Dulles International Airport.

The virus causing an听outbreak in the Congo is suspected of killing more than 130 people and is less common than others that cause Ebola, which is complicating the response because there are no specific treatments or vaccines.

“The risk for importation of Ebola virus to the United States is low at this time,” according to the new CDC statement. “However, public health entry screening is part of a layered approach that, when used with other public health measures already in place to detect ill arriving travelers, can slow and the reduce the spread of disease into the United States.”

According to a DHS spokesperson, U.S. Customs and Border Protection “is continuing to coordinate with airlines, international partners, and port-of-entry officials to identify and manage travelers who may have been exposed to the Ebola virus.”

U.S. Customs and Border Protection and DHS have not disclosed whether the screening is done on the arriving airplane, or in the area where CBP typically screens international travelers arriving at Dulles.

During a 小萝莉影视 visit to Dulles Airport on Thursday, operations ran smoothly with no apparent delays or inconveniences for travelers.

“The Airports Authority is working with federal partners to support efforts led by the Centers for Disease Control affecting various international flights arriving at Dulles Airport. This includes providing staff and public safety resources as needed. We are not expecting any significant impacts on airport customers,” an airport spokesman said.

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After three years of debate and a seven-hour public meeting, Stafford County’s Board of Supervisors has voted 5-2 to approve the Buc-ee鈥檚 Travel Center project.

Virginia鈥檚 second Buc-ee鈥檚 will be built near the intersection of Courthouse Road and Austin Ridge Drive, just off Interstate 95 at Exit 140.

Buc-ee鈥檚 of Stafford will be a 74,000-square-foot travel center with 120 gas pumps and 800 parking spaces.

Today, the 38-acre property consists of trees, bushes and stormwater basins, across Austin Ridge Drive from the new Embrey Mill Town Center.

The project has been controversial. Supporters have pointed to almost $2 million in annual tax revenue and jobs that will be generated in Stafford County, while opponents have concerns about how increased traffic will affect daily life.

The first Buc-ee鈥檚 opened in 1982 in Clute, Texas, and there are now just over 50 locations in the U.S. The first location in Virginia opened in June 2025, in Rockingham County, just south of Harrisonburg.

What about the extra traffic?

A traffic impact analysis concluded Buc-ee鈥檚 would generate almost 21,000 daily vehicle trips. The project that was approved by the board included several traffic improvements, in an attempt to facilitate interstate travelers to stop for a brisket sandwich or sausage on a stick, use a clean restroom, pick up snacks for the road, and buy Buc-ee鈥檚 beaver merchandise.

Improvements offered by Buc-ee鈥檚 include building a median-separated slip lane from the I-95 southbound exit, which will allow I-95 travelers to enter the parking lot without having to travel on Courthouse Road.

Opponents have feared that extra traffic could slow emergency services. The new project will include exclusive turn lanes and an extra through lane on Courthouse Road, to avoid impeding local travelers.

In an attempt to minimize the visual impact on the nearby Embrey Mills neighborhood, two rows of tall evergreen trees will be planted. A Buc-ee鈥檚 sign visible from the highway was originally planned to be 60 feet tall 鈥� after residents鈥� input, the sign will now be 45 feet tall, approximately the same height as the travel center building.

To assuage neighbors鈥� concerns about light pollution, since fuel stations typically are lit brightly, in a last-minute offer, the company agreed to use dark-sky compliant canopy lighting.

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Approvals still needed before construction

Before construction can begin, the project still requires an Operational and Safety Analysis Report, looking into how Buc-ee鈥檚 would affect the Exit 140 interchange. The OSAR report involves Federal Highway Administration and Virginia Department of Transportation review, which supervisors heard could take 18 months.

Before the vote to approve the project, the attorney for Buc-ee鈥檚 promised the supervisors and the room full of spectators that the company would pay for any additional road improvements required to receive the OSAR approval.

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Dr. Miriam Fischer, a senior attending emergency physician with MedStar Health, said the body hasn’t had time to adjust after a long, cold winter, making the first heat wave of the season far more dangerous than the typical heat of July and August.

“This is new to us,” Fischer said, adding people should give themselves time and slowly expose themselves to the heat.

By August, she said, the body will have adjusted.

Two of the biggest risks posed by the heat are heat exhaustion 鈥� the milder of the two 鈥� and heat stroke.

People should look for signs such as sweating, lightheadedness, nausea, headaches, cramping and weakness, Fischer said, which indicate heat exhaustion is setting in.

Her advice: Listen to your body, cool down and get inside.

Heat stroke is the next level of illness; if you experience confusion, you should head straight to the ER.

“People can die from this,” Fischer said. “They need to be seen right away so they can be cooled.”

What makes heat stroke so dangerous, Fischer said, is that the body loses its ability to regulate temperature altogether. People stop sweating, can’t cool themselves down and their core temperature climbs to a deadly level.

Fisher said as the summer progresses, the body does eventually adapt to heat by increasing blood flow to the skin and producing more sweat. But that process takes time, which is exactly why early summer heat waves catch people off guard.

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The debate, hosted by Fox 5 D.C. and Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy, featured Ward 4 D.C. Council member Janeese Lewis George, former At-Large member Kenyan McDuffie and real estate developer and U.S. Army veteran Gary Goodweather.

The candidates are running with hopes of succeeding Mayor Muriel Bowser, who announced in November 2025 she would not seek a fourth term. The primary election is taking place on June 16.

On the topic of affordability, Lewis George said the city is facing a crisis: “People from the middle class to the margins are feeling the squeeze.

A feature of Lewis George’s affordability plan centers on childcare.

“We’re going to expand universal access for childcare so that no family is spending more than 7% of their income on child care,” Lewis George said. “And we’re going to do that by expanding our childcare subsidy, so every family qualifies for it.”

Goodweather said his focus is on housing.

“I’m going to completely revamp the Department of Buildings and the permitting and approval timeline,” Goodweather said. “We are going to rewrite the tax code because the tax code is currently making our city less affordable.”

In addition, Goodweather said he’s committed to building 50,000 multigenerational homes in the District.

McDuffie said affordability starts with safety, arguing that “the trust in the Metropolitan Police Department has been shaken.”

McDuffie said he would focus on appointing “top quality leadership” to D.C. police, and restore “a culture of accountability and transparency.”

Differing views on teen curfews

A contentious topic of debate was teen curfews.

Lewis George said using curfews as a tool with young people is “dangerous,” pointing to the presence of federal troops and immigration agents in the city who she said are “not individuals who are trained in de-escalation,” and “are not accountable to to D.C. residents.”

Goodweather said “the current curfews are a failure of the system that my two colleagues, who have been on council for a combined 20 years, have failed to address.” He said if using curfews, “which are an extreme measure, you need to have a defined timeline when you’re going to exit it.”

In addition, Goodweather said the District has to address the underlying causes of the teen violence, which are poverty and mental health.

McDuffie said 鈥渄oing nothing is not an option.鈥�

He referenced a fight over the weekend at a Chipotle, saying the brawl in the Navy Yard restaurant 鈥渄idn鈥檛 have to happen,鈥� and accused Lewis George of blocking curfew action by asking the council to wait. He said she 鈥減ut politics over public safety.鈥�

McDuffie argued for extending the juvenile curfew while also addressing root causes, saying 鈥�滨迟鈥檚听not an听either or. We need to do both.鈥�听

With federal upheaval, spurring District economy

With recent loss of federal jobs in Washington, and a troubling number of empty office buildings across the District, the mayor candidates shared what they would do to boost the local economy.

Lewis George said she would turn D.C. into 鈥渁n innovation district鈥� by leveraging听universities and hospitals for research and programming. She also pointed to women鈥檚 sports as an economic driver 鈥� saying 鈥淕o Spirit. We are a women鈥檚 sports听town听and we can听leverage this moment.鈥澨�

Goodweather said he planned to create a “transformational workforce development program,” modeled after his time in the military, and with similarities to former Mayor Marion Barry’s summer jobs program.

“It has a youth track, an adult track and a returning citizens track,” Goodweather said. “It will provide the education, training and the skills that D.C. residents need, to be able to organically grow our economy.”

McDuffie said he would grow the economy without displacing residents, saying he has seen cities focus on downtown development where 鈥減eople get left behind, people get displaced.鈥� He said he would create 鈥渁 one-stop portal鈥� to help anyone get a permit and start a business in the听District听within听10 days.

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The historic 118-year-old Bennett School in Manassas, Virginia, will be razed as part of the expansion of the Prince William County Judicial Center.

In a May 13 meeting, the Prince William Board of County Supervisors said they are looking for ways to repurpose features from the building, which was completed in 1908 and served as an elementary school from 1909 to 1969.

Located across a circular driveway from the courthouse and slightly up a hill, the Bennett School has been shuttered and unused since 1989.

The county’s $233 million renovation plan includes constructing a new building with 12 courtrooms to supplement the 19 district and circuit court courtrooms in the current building. The project will also include a new parking garage.

In a Joint Interjurisdictional Ad Hoc Committee meeting, supervisors reviewed the current .

The staff report says not only is the Bennett building’s structure integrity in question, it currently contains asbestos, lead, mold, water damage and termites. The estimated cost to renovate the building where it stands was estimated at $46,875,000.

The cost was prohibitive to board members, who said the county could build two firehouses for that sum.

Since the building is not listed on the Virginia Landmarks Register or National Register of Historic Places, demolition would not require the Department of Historic Resources’ approval.

The current plan seeks to repurpose existing elements from the Bennett building into the design of the new courthouse, to memorialize the structure. Suggestions include reusing the white columns to create space within the new building, and reusing bricks throughout the new facade.

While the board of county supervisors’ plans include tearing down the building, the nonprofit Preservation Virginia will meet Wednesday to discuss the Bennett School.

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Jorge Steve Zepeda Irias managed the now-closed 38-acre Rancho Los Cerritos and operated the Salvadoran-style restaurant on U.S. 15 in Haymarket. The farm and restaurant have remained closed since FBI raids on Jan. 21 and 22.

Authorities seized dozens of animals during the operation, including chickens, ducks, geese, goats, pigs and an alpaca.

Guilty plea and charges

Zepeda pleaded guilty to four felony charges: conspiracy to deal firearms without a license, conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance, and two counts of using, carrying and brandishing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking offense.

He is scheduled to be sentenced Sept. 8. The maximum sentence for using a firearm during a drug trafficking crime is life in prison.

Undercover investigation

According to court records, an undercover investigation conducted between July 2024 and January 2026 found Zepeda conspired to sell 47 firearms to a confidential source.

Court documents state the weapons included revolvers, shotguns, semi-automatic pistols and assault rifles, including AR-15s and AK-47s, as well as so-called “ghost guns.”

Prosecutors said Zepeda told a confidential informant he previously sold about five firearms a week to members of a transnational gang.

Authorities said transactions took place at Cerritos Ranch, at Zepeda’s home and in vehicles throughout the region. Prosecutors said Zepeda told the informant he brought his wife or daughter with him during transactions to avoid attracting law enforcement attention.

Others tied to investigation

Zepeda’s wife, Jenifer Icela Romero Fabian, was arrested at Dulles International Airport after prosecutors said she purchased a ticket to El Salvador. She remains awaiting trial.

Three others Oscar Vladimir Padilla Portillo, Damon Darnell Gray and Evelyn Esmeralda Villatoro have also pleaded guilty in connection with the case.

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Maurquise James, 22, was indicted in April for first-degree murder in the death of 87-year-old millionaire philanthropist Robert Fuller, Jr., who was found dead in his apartment at the Cogir Potomac Senior Living Facility, with a gunshot wound to the head, on Valentine鈥檚 Day.

During a competency hearing Friday, the Montgomery County Circuit Court judge agreed with the doctor from the Maryland Department of Health in concluding that James is not capable of assisting in his own defense.

“The court will find, based on the evaluation of Dr. Smith, that Mr. James at this point is not competent to proceed to trial,” said Circuit Court Judge Karla Smith. “And that he, again, based on the evaluation of Dr. Smith, presents a danger to himself, to others, to the property of others. And based on that, the court will have him committed to work on competency.”

Court records show that in March, when the case was still in District Court, a judge ruled he was competent to stand trial. The defense then requested another evaluation, where the same doctor who conducted the first exam, Dr. Julie Smith, found James not competent.

James will be held at a state psychiatric facility until his next competency hearing in six months. That hearing is scheduled for the morning of Nov. 9.

A competency exam in Maryland only looks at whether a defendant is able to understand the charges and help his lawyer. It does not look at whether the defendant was sane at the time of the crime.

Montgomery County prosecutors have said that James planned for up to a month to kill Fuller, who was living with his partner at Cogir. Prosecutors have not yet suggested a potential motive for the killing.

Investigators have cited several pieces of evidence, including surveillance video they said showed a masked person using a secured side door near the time of the shooting. A witness also told detectives the person鈥檚 unusual gait in the footage matches James鈥�.

Investigators additionally pointed to discarded paper towels and multiple wigs collected during the investigation.

Court documents point to听another incident after the shooting听in which investigators said a black napkin and a nearby paper towel were used to try to prop open a side door at the senior living facility. James is accused of being the person who put them there, which he denied when questioned.

Prosecutors also said ballistic testing links the gun to Fuller鈥檚 killing and a second case James faces in Baltimore, where he is accused of shooting at a Maryland State Trooper during a traffic stop, days after Fuller鈥檚 death.

James was indicted in Baltimore on April 8, charged with attempted first- and second-degree murder felony counts, and six gun-related misdemeanors.

In March, Fuller鈥檚 partner, Linda Buttrick,听filed a lawsuit alleging that Cogir failed to intervene when employees reported James鈥� concerning behaviors and the facility failed to protect Buttrick after the killing.

小萝莉影视’s Mike Murillo and Jessica Kronzer contributed to this report.听

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In February, the House Energy and Commerce Committee launched an investigation into the spill, which sent more than 240 million gallons of wastewater into the Potomac River.

This week, the a hearing on the collapse, to be held Tuesday morning.

Contacted 小萝莉影视, D.C. Water said David Gadis, the chief executive officer and general manager of D.C. Water, will be questioned by lawmakers.

“Mr. Gadis has agreed to testify before the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations regarding the Potomac Interceptor Collapse,” said John Lisle, spokesman with the utility.

When the investigation began, the committee sent Gadis and requested documents, ranging from what D.C. Water knew about the risk of collapse, contracts entered into for the cleanup, public health and drinking water quality, and the projected effects on tourism

“D.C. Water has been providing regular updates and documentation to Congress since the Potomac Interceptor collapse in January,” Lisle said.

“We welcome the opportunity this hearing provides to update members on our emergency response, ongoing rehabilitation efforts, and what we are doing to prevent future incidents.”

As of Thursday morning, the House committee has not disclosed who else will testify during the hearing, which is entitled “Corrosion, Collapse, and Clean-Up: Examining the Potomac Interceptor Collapse.”

“The resilience of our wastewater infrastructure systems remains critical to protecting the health and safety of our communities, including safe drinking water and the environment,” chairmen Brett Guthrie and John Joyce said in a news release announcing the hearing.

“This hearing will help to understand what was known about the condition of the Potomac Interceptor prior to this incident, the emergency response and cleanup efforts that have been underway since the collapse, and how future incidents may be prevented.”

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Commonwealth’s Attorney Steve Descano and Sheriff Stacey Kincaid will be testifying before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security and Enforcement, as will Cheryl Minter, whose daughter Stephanie was killed in February, at a bus stop along Route 1 in Hybla Valley.

Abdul Jalloh, a 32-year-old immigrant from Sierra Leone will stand trial for Minter’s murder.

Earlier this month, the U.S. Department of Justice began an investigation of Descano.

In听, Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division Harmeet Dhillon said the DOJ is investigating whether his office violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act and the Safe Streets Act, which both 鈥減rohibit recipients of Federal financial assistance from discriminating based upon race, color, or national origin.鈥�

Jalloh has a long history of being arrested and released. Most recently, he was free on his own recognizance after being arrested for malicious wounding in 2025.

In written remarks, ahead of the hearing, Descano said, “The system failed Ms. Minter, and we should all look for ways we can prevent tragedies like this in the future.”

The policy in question was adopted by Descano鈥檚 office in 2020 as part of its guidelines for plea bargaining. It instructs assistant Commonwealth鈥檚 attorneys to 鈥渃onsider immigration consequences where possible鈥� and states that 鈥減rosecutors shall consider 鈥� the collateral immigration consequences of the specific crime(s) the defendant is charged with.鈥�

The webpage detailing the policy is no longer publicly available on his office鈥檚 website.

Descano and Kincaid will be asked about the county’s policies regarding not assisting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement with federal civil immigration enforcement.

After the launch of the Justice Department investigation, Descano said his policies reflect the community he serves, in which “three in ten residents of Fairfax County are immigrants.”

“When crimes occur, we need victims and witnesses, including members of our immigrant communities, to report those crimes and come to court to testify,”听according to Descano’s written comments before Thursday’s hearing.

“If victims and witnesses believe my office will report them or their neighbors to ICE, they will not trust us and they will not provide the testimony we need to obtain convictions and get justice.”

Cheryl Minter has said if Jalloh had been prosecuted earlier, her daughter would still be alive. She is hopeful the hearing will prompt changes and is working with groups attempting to remove Descano from office.

“The defendant was well known by ICE as early as 2018, when ICE held him in custody for nearly two years during the first Trump administration, only to release him into the community,” according to Descano.

“Let me be absolutely clear. My office does not provide sanctuary or safe harbor to undocumented immigrants,” according to Descano’s written remarks. “We routinely prosecute immigrants who commit crimes and we will continue to do so.”

Also scheduled to testify are former Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares, and Sean Kennedy, member of the Fairfax County Criminal Justice Advisory Board, and president of Virginians for Safe Communities. Both have been vocal critics of Descano.

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Cole Tomas Allen, 31, of Torrance, California, was indicted last week on charges including attempted assassination, assaulting a federal officer with a deadly weapon and two additional firearms counts. He faces a potential life sentence if convicted of the attempted assassination charge.

One of Allen’s attorneys entered a not guilty plea on his behalf.

Defense attorneys are also seeking to disqualify U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro and acting Attorney General Todd Blanche from prosecuting the case, arguing both attended the April 25 dinner at the Washington Hilton and could be considered victims or witnesses, creating a potential conflict of interest.

Court filings allege Allen ran through a security checkpoint and fired a shotgun at a Secret Service officer, striking the officer once in a bullet鈥憆esistant vest. The officer fired back five times without hitting anyone. Allen was injured but not shot.

In a motion filed Thursday, attorneys Eugene Ohm and Tezira Abe cited comments Pirro made at a news conference attended by Blanche and FBI Director Kash Patel, including her statement that 鈥渨e will prosecute you to the fullest extent of the law.鈥�

The case is assigned to U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden, a Trump nominee. He questioned the scope of the defense’s recusal request and whether Allen’s attorneys were asking that only Pirro and Blanche be recused 鈥� or their entire offices.

In reference to the judge’s question, Ohm responded they were “likely asking” for Pirro’s whole office to be recused. Ohm said it would be unlikely the entire Justice Department could be recused.

鈥淭hat would be quite a request,鈥� McFadden said.

McFadden asked whether the defense was suggesting Pirro or Blanche had seen Allen at the dinner, adding that he’d be surprised if either of them testified at trial.

Ohm argued that if Pirro or Blanche are considered victims of the attack, it would be “wholly inappropriate” for them to prosecute the case.

McFadden asked the prosecution’s top attorney, Assistant U.S. Attorney Charles Jones, about whether Pirro or Blanche see themselves as victims. Jones said it’s too early in the investigation to make that determination.

Prosecutors have argued that if Allen had been 鈥渟uccessful,鈥� the attack could have 鈥渄estabilized the entire federal government,鈥� given the number of high鈥憆anking officials present.听In media interviews, Pirro has said, 鈥淚 was in the line of fire here,鈥� and 鈥淚 could have been killed.鈥�

Allen鈥檚 attorneys said those comments raise 鈥済rave concerns鈥� about whether Pirro and Blanche can act as neutral prosecutors, noting both heard gunshots, ducked for cover and were evacuated before learning certain administration officials were believed to be the target.

Ohm argued that it’s possible Allen will face charges in a superseding indictment where additional members of the administration, such as the attorney general, could be listed as targets.

The motion also mentioned Pirro’s friendship with Trump, which was alluded to in court Monday, though the president’s name wasn’t mentioned outright. Blanche previously served as Trump鈥檚 personal attorney.

The defense is asking the court to disqualify those officials and consider appointing a special prosecutor.

Pirro has said her office will respond in court, adding that officials will not tolerate 鈥渁ntidemocratic acts of political violence.鈥�

Prosecutors have until May 22 to respond to the recusal request.

Allen is next scheduled to appear in court on June 29.

小萝莉影视’s Jessica Kronzer and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Cal Everett got his first chance at rock stardom decades ago. Now, the D.C. area-based singer/songwriter is releasing a new album 鈥斕� 鈥� a lifetime of melodic, catchy songs, that captures the arc of life in just under an hour.

Everett was the former frontman and bassist in 4 Out of 5 Doctors, the critically-acclaimed D.C. band that spent the late 1970s and early ’80s touring and playing shows with Hall and Oates, The Cars, The Clash and Cyndi Lauper.

“We got together, in probably ’77, and had determined right away 鈥� that we weren’t going to be a club band,” Everett told 小萝莉影视 in an interview. “We just wanted to write, we wanted to record. And our goal was we just wanted to get a record contract.”

When the phone rang, and the labels wanted to see 4 Out of 5 Doctors perform, “I lied and said, ‘Oh, yeah, we play all over the place.'”

Everett said they were able to book a few showcases at Childe Harold in Dupont Circle, which he described as one of the few clubs “that was really open to original bands, original music.”

“Eventually, we went to New York, played The Ritz, and got signed to CBS’ Nemperor Records,” Everett said.

The dream didn’t last long. The band released two albums 鈥� “4 Out of 5 Doctors” in 1980 and “Second Opinion” in 1982.

“A meteoric rise and crash and burn,” Everett said. “We got signed in 1980. By 1983 鈥� stick a fork in us, we were done.”

Everett described the disappointment as “personal devastation 鈥� I was so excited about the possibility.”

Married and with a child on the way, Everett said he had to rethink his entire life.

“I’m going to get real square, real fast,” he recalled thinking. “I’m going to just sell all my gear and not do this for a while, going to get a job, raise a kid 鈥� with my wife, Wendy, and that worked out for a while 鈥� except for the whole time, I couldn’t stop writing songs.”

With a songbook of music in his head, Everett went into the studio to begin recording his first solo album, with the encouragement of producer Todd Wright.

“He said, ‘we’ll have it done in six months 鈥� 10 years later, we finally put it out,” Everett said with a laugh.

‘I like the structure of a well-written song’

As he was growing up, Everett said he was surrounded by music: “If something wasn’t on the turntable, then either my mom or my dad would be singing while they were doing their chores.”

The 23 tracks on “Weight of Early Promise” might remind the listener of songs crafted by Billy Joel, Paul McCartney, Brian Wilson or Hall & Oates 鈥� songwriters who Everett has listened to since his childhood and teenage years.

“I kind of latched onto this timeless thing, musically,” Everett said. “I like the structure of a well-written song.”

Some songs are ageless. He continues to perform the first song he ever wrote: “If I play it today, nobody will know I didn’t write it yesterday.”

The concept of the album took shape over the years since he began recording in 2016, he said.

“Many of the songs had not been written yet, that would end up being on it,” Everett said. “It became an epic thing, once I finally got my head wrapped around ‘this what I wanted to do, this is the thing that’s been eluding me for decades.'”

The songs encapsulate his journey from being a young power-popper, to a wistful almost star, to a husband working a day job, to the tenderness of fatherhood.

“‘Emily,’ that’s for my daughter. I literally wrote that humming in a rocking chair, after her bath when she was wrapped in a towel one night,” he said. “That’s when the melody came to me. I didn’t have anything to it (lyrically) yet.”

“Weight of Early Promise” is available on CD and in a digital album. He hopes to eventually release it on vinyl.

“I’m one of the guys 鈥� and I think there’s still a lot of people out there 鈥� I like the tactile experience,” of holding a record album, he said. “I like to see what’s in here, what it’s all about, who might of played on the record, and if there’s lyrics in there, that’s all the better.”

For Everett, the struggles, romance and love were all worth it: “I’ve been writing this album, in one way or another, for over four decades.”

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Almost a quarter-century after one of the most chilling chapters in the region’s history, a new museum exhibit offers a first-ever look at artifacts from the D.C. sniper rampage.

“Without Warning: Ending the Terror of the D.C. Snipers” opened Thursday at the National Law Enforcement Museum and brings visitors inside what the D.C. museum calls one of the most intense and far-reaching manhunts in American history.

“In October 2002, a series of seemingly random shootings spread fear across Washington, D.C., Maryland and Virginia,” said Thomas Canavan, chief operating officer of the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund and executive director of the National Law Enforcement Museum. “Ordinary routines, such as pumping gas, walking to school and running errands, became moments of risk.”

On public display for the first time are artifacts from the rampage, including the Bushmaster rifle used in the shootings, a tarot card and notes left at shooting scenes. But perhaps the most striking piece is the 1990 blue Chevy Caprice, in which John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo were sleeping when they were arrested.

“As soon as we knew the vehicle we were looking for, and we knew the license plate of the vehicle, we felt it was just a matter of time,” Thomas Manger, retired chief of U.S. Capitol Police, said. In 2002, Manger was chief of the Fairfax County Police Department.

Manger said there was debate among law enforcement agencies that made up the sniper task force.

“Do we release it to the public? Then the bad guys know that we know what they’re driving, and they’ll change cars and change license plates,” Manger said.

Hours after their New Jersey license plate was leaked by law enforcement, a truck driver called 911 to report seeing the Caprice parked in a rest stop off Interstate 70, near Myersville, Maryland. Federal and state authorities apprehended Muhammad and Malvo without incident.

It wasn’t until investigators began searching the Chevy Caprice that they realized how Muhammad and Malvo “were able to do so many shootings without anybody seeing who the shooter was, and where the shot came from,” Manger said.

In their initial search of the vehicle, investigators were unable to find any firearms.

“When they pulled the seat down and broke down the back seat, not only did they find the firearm, but they then realized, ‘This is how these shootings occurred,'” Manger said.

Above and behind the rear license plate, a hole had been cut into the Caprice’s body, large enough to fit the barrel of the Bushmaster XM-15 E2S, which is on display in the museum.

“With the hole that was cut in the rear of the car, the shooter could be laying prone, half in the trunk, half in the back seat,” Manger said.

The walls of the museum exhibit include details of the shootings and the manhunt, as well as information about the investigation that led to Muhammad and Malvo’s arrests.

“Twenty days after these shootings began, the investigation got a break in this case, and we started honing in” on the two suspects, said Manger. “Three days later, those suspects were in custody.”

Muhammad was executed in 2009 for the Prince William County, Virginia, murder of Dean Harold Meyers, after his trial was moved to Virginia Beach. Muhammad had also been convicted in 2006 in Montgomery County, Maryland, for six murders, and had been sentenced to six life sentences without the possibility of parole.

Malvo was convicted in 2003 in Chesapeake Circuit Court for the Fairfax County murder of Linda Franklin. He was sentenced to life in prison, with no chance of parole.

In October 2004, Malvo entered an Alford plea in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, for the murder of Kenneth Bridges and attempting to murder Caroline Seawell. Malvo was sentenced to life in prison without parole for the Spotsylvania murder.

Malvo was also sentenced to six life sentences without the possibility of parole in Montgomery County.

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Loudoun County is pushing back on the proposed rate hikes.

Right now, driving the Greenway during peak hours costs $5.80. Off-peak, it’s $5.25.

The operators, Toll Road Investors Partnership II, abbreviated TRIP II, want to raise the peak toll by 95 cents to $6.75 and the off-peak toll by 35 cents to $5.60. The company said current rates don’t cover operating costs, debt repayments or maintenance on the road.

The Loudoun County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to intervene in TRIP II’s application before the State Corporation Commission, arguing that higher tolls push drivers off the Greenway and onto public roads 鈥� ultimately forcing the county to widen those roads at taxpayers’ expense.

This is not the first time Loudoun’s supervisors have opposed an application to raise Greenway tolls.

In 2024, the State Corporation Commission denied TRIP II’s application. The commission said the company failed to prove that the proposed tolls would be reasonable to drivers when compared to the company鈥檚 benefits and that the proposed increase would likely discourage drivers from using the Greenway.

The Virginia Supreme Court upheld the State Corporation Commission’s denial.

In its current application, TRIP II offered two alternatives to raising rates to $6.75 and $5.60.

In the second scenario, “The Company recognizes that the Commission may find a more gradual increase in peak tolls rates is appropriate at this time,” offering a 70 cent increase in peak tolls and a 40 cent increase in off-peak tolls.

The third option would reflect a $1.45 increase in peak tolls and an 85 cent increase in off-peak tolls. The option “would allow TRIP II to at least avoid continued operating losses now and put TRIP II on a path to obtain sufficient revenue with regular, reasonable toll increases going forward, enabling it to meet financial obligations and its debt service coverage rations, to eventually provide the reasonable return that the Constitution requires.”

In a , Loudoun County encouraged participation for an in-person public hearing on June 29, and a virtual public hearing on July 1.

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Cadoza Simms, 50, is charged with second-degree murder while armed in the death of 45-year-old Marvin Urquhart, who was working the front door at Wunder Garten, located on First St. NE early Saturday morning.

Security video shows that Simms tried to get into the bar after last call and was turned away by Urquhart, according to charging documents. The two argued and Simms pushed Urquhart with his left hand before stabbing him several times with a switchblade, police said. Urquhart then pinned Simms to the ground while a witness called 911.

The video shows that at about 12:45 a.m., Urquhart stood up and backed away unsteadily. “He retrieved a shoe that had come off during the altercation, put it on, and appeared to begin recording the defendant, who remained on the ground,” according to police.

A few minutes later, back inside the club, Urquhart sat on a bar stool, looking at his phone, and then speaking on a FaceTime call. A witness told police that Urquhart didn’t realize he was stabbed.

Soon Urquhart, “began to lose consciousness, first leaning forward, then collapsing sideways to the floor,” landing on his back, facing up.

Urquhart was transported to a nearby hospital where he later died, police said.

During the investigation, police report recovering a switch blade from the front of the club. Authorities believe it was Simms’.

A witness told police that two weeks earlier, Simms had unsuccessfully tried to get into the club after last call.

After his first appearance in court Tuesday, he’s being held without bond until a preliminary hearing scheduled for May 14.

Court records show that 30 years earlier, in 1996, Simms was charged in the District with first-degree murder while armed. He pleaded guilty to a lesser offense and was sentenced to 15 years in prison.

Wunder Garten has temporarily closed in light of Urquhart’s death.

In a statement on Instagram, Wunder Garden said he was a and thanked the community for their understanding and support.

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