WASHINGTON — The FBI has launched a website to draw attention to a series of unsolved rapes and a murder in the Washington area that investigators believe are related. Local and federal authorities unveiled a public outreach campaign Thursday in ...

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Maryland officials say the state’s drop in violent crime is mirroring a nationwide 6 percent drop in 2010 noted by the FBI. The FBI marked the fourth year of declines in its annual crime statistics report on Monday. Maryland’s 4.9 ...

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ROCKVILLE — Investigators say DNA connects the 1998 killing of a woman in Georgetown to a series of sexual assaults in Montgomery County from the same time. Now police in the District of Columbia plan to start a website to ...

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WASHINGTON — It was an extraordinarily dramatic scene, even for Congress: Three Peace Corps volunteers raped while serving overseas, plus the mother of a fourth who was murdered in Benin, complaining to lawmakers about one of the government’s most revered ...

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NEW HAVEN, Conn. — A man suspected in a series of rapes along the East Coast has pleaded not guilty in a Connecticut case. Aaron Thomas appeared briefly Tuesday in New Haven Superior Court on a charge that he raped ...

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