The charges follow a Vatican report released last year that detailed decades of alleged abuse perpetrated by McCarrick.

Family Research Council shooting suspect Floyd Lee Corkins II will be arraigned this afternoon on charges of assault with intent to kill, and the FBI reports that he was found with 15 Chick-fil-A sandwiches in his bag.

After one dropped case and one acquittal, seven of the remaining eight D.C. voting rights protesters put on trial for arrests at demonstrations in April were found guilty today of blocking traffic. One other protester was acquitted.

Yonathan Melaku, the former Marine reservist who taken into custody in connection to shootings at five military sites around Virginia last fall, reportedly attempted to escape from his cell last week.

If you’re reading this right now and you live inside the District, you probably get a friendly visit in your mailbox (or your email inbox) from a Pepco bill every month. But even among an ocean of cable, internet, gas and cell phone bills which are bloated with all kinds of taxes and surcharges, Pepco’s billing stands out. The news that the D.C. Public Service Commission has rejected the utility’s request to add a proposed 15th surcharge to District customers’ bills is incredibly good news — as much for customers’ ability to read and understand their bill as the small savings that it may mean.

A quick update from today’s proceedings in the Chandra Levy murder trial: Ingmar Guandique, who stands accused of killing Levy in Rock Creek Park more than nine years ago, told Judge Gerald Fisher that he will not take the stand and testify. In addition, the prosecution has dropped two more charges — WTOP reports that the statute of limitations on attempted kidnapping and robbery charges against Guandique had expired. Earlier in the trial, prosecutors also…

TBD is reporting that D.C. police have said that murder charges against the five DC9 employees, including co-owner Bill Spieler, who allegedly beat and killed a man outside of the club early Friday morning, might change. An arraignment in the case was originally scheduled to take place this afternoon, but has been postponed until tomorrow at 11 a.m. This apparently means that the five employees who were placed under arrest will spend the night in…

The Washington Post’s Clarence Williams and Paul Duggan are reporting that authorities may be considering dropping charges filed against the 14-year-old boy who was believed to be involved in the deadly March 30 shooting on South Capitol Street. The full extent of the trouble with the case remains unclear, but one problem concerns insufficient evidence that the teenager was involved in the attack at all, according to the sources, who spoke on the condition of…

The U.S. attorney’s office filed a new indictment Thursday that spells out additional charges against Ted Loza, D.C. Council member Jim Graham’s former chief of staff. Loza was arrested in September and charged with two counts of bribery on allegations he accepted $1,500 from taxicab industry lobbyist Abdulaziz Kamus. But as the Washington Post reports, Loza now stands accused of accepting a total of “more than $30,000 in benefits, including cash, trips, transportation and other…

Looks like a grand jury will soon hand down additional charges against former Jim Graham staffer Ted Loza, D.C. Wire reports. Loza was indicted on bribery charges last fall after he allegedly accepted $1,500 in cash and other favors and trips from a taxicab lobbyist. No word yet on what the new charges might look like, just that we should expect them in the “next two to four weeks.” Notably, Loza’s attorney, Pleasant Brodnax, is…