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WASHINGTON (AP) — Police locked down the U.S. Capitol on Friday afternoon after a report of gunshots in the area. U.S. Capitol Police say all Capitol buildings were being locked down “due to an external security threat” and staff members were told they could not enter or exit the buildings.

A driver taking an SUV for a spin struck four cars and flipped the vehicle on its side at a dealership in Ballston, Virginia. WASHINGTON — A test drive took a dangerous turn Friday when a woman trying out a Mercedes struck four cars and flipped the vehicle on its side at a dealership in Virginia, NBC Washington reported. At about 11:30 a.m., a female driver and three passengers were test-driving a Mercedes SUV in the parking lot of the Mercedes-Benz of Arlington dealership on North Glebe Road in Ballston when the woman accelerated at a high rate of speed,...

A beautiful, special Ferrari 458 Speciale minding its own business was horrifyingly mutilated at Katie’s Cars & Coffee in Great Falls, Virginia this morning when a Mercedes 380 SL parallel parked on the face of the $300,000 supercar. Children were watching! If you head over to the Katie’s Cars & Coffee Facebook page, almost all of the Visitor Posts are of the carnage. In this clip below, you can see the moments just after the wreck happened. Warning: nobody was injured but the damage to the Ferrari and its wailing, crying and painful alarm may be graphic for some viewers....

She told officers she was just hurrying to get home. That's the story the 33-year-old naked woman accused of ramming a U-Haul van into the bedroom of a South East Street house early Sunday afternoon gave Culpeper town police. Will Green was sitting on the porch of the home he was visiting when he saw the van coming around a wide turn at what he said was a high rate of speed. "I thought it was going to hit the neighbor's house," Green said yesterday. "I couldn't believe it when I saw it coming." The van missed the neighbor's house...

A driver trying to escape a what Woodbury police called a traffic stop lost control of his car and crashed into a house early this morning. Shortly after midnight the driver of a red Acura led police on a brief chase before crashing into a house

Abu Ghraib Is Back -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Senator Edward M. Kennedy took time out of his busy schedule to issue a press release reminding us all that it was the first anniversary of the scandal at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. http://kennedy.senate.gov/~kennedy/...2005426703.html I think everyone should contact Teddy on July 18th to remind him of the murder, I mean death of Mary Jo Kopechne. You can contact him at http://kennedy.senate.gov/~kennedy/index_low.html I just sent the following: "Senator Edward Kennedy, I just wanted to thank you for taking the time out of your busy schedule to issue a press release reminding us all that...

http://skyscraper.fortunecity.com/hudson/65/midiworld/rz.html MIDI - WITH OR WITHOUT YOU He's so liberal he's scary...that sums up John F. KerryNo Effin way He has made bad decisions...what he's done is seditionHe's a clone of Teddy...without the dead girl...without the dead girl He is daily flip-flopping...there seems to be no stopping Ted, without...the dead girlWithout the dead girl...without the poor dead girl He is Ted...without the dead girl We have all had quite our fill of his baloney...we can so easily tell that he's a phony We have all had quite our fill...had our fill...we have all had quite our fill of his baloney...