The former chief of staff to former D.C. Councilmember Harry Thomas Jr. pleaded guilty today in federal court to charges that she falsified tax documents in connection with a 2009 inaugural ball.

A D.C. Superior Court jury today convicted Tommy Branch, a resident of Fort Washington, Md., on 11 counts for his role in a brutal attack last August on a man walking through Capitol Hill that left the victim with brain damage and other severe injuries.

The man who shot a security guard in the lobby of the D.C. office of the Family Research Council last August could serve 45 years in prison.

Family Research Council shooter Floyd Lee Corkins III today pleaded guilty to three charges related to the August 2012 incident.

Crapo was sentenced to a suspended jail sentence of 180 days along with one year of unsupervised probation. He was also ordered to pay a $250 fine.

Four men have pleaded guilty to stealing $200,000 worth of textbooks from the George Washington University library and selling them off to students at a discount.

A former employee of D.C.’s Office of Tax and Revenue pleaded guilty today to taking part in a scheme to file fraudulent tax returns that raked in $14.7 million in local and federal funds.

A former Baylor University basketball player pleaded guilty in federal court in Dallas yesterday to an extortion plot targeting Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III.

A D.C. man accused of killing a puppy with a cement block earlier in the summer pleaded guilty yesterday, and now faces five years in jail.

Six activists were found guilty yesterday of unlawful entry for entering the abandoned Franklin School downtown last November as part of a protest against cuts to homeless services.