Wizards guard Javaris Crittenton was charged with two misdemeanor counts of unlawful gun possession earlier today, but has already entered a guilty plea on one of the charges, as part of a deal with prosecutors, the Post’s Keith Alexander and Mike Wise report from D.C. Superior Court.Senior Judge Bruce Beaudin on Monday agreed with the prosecutor’s suggestion and sentenced Crittenton to one year of unsupervised probation and $1,250 in fines. Crittenton also agreed to begin…

We missed this City Desk report that D.C. Shadow Senator Paul Strauss pleaded guilty last Friday on charges stemming from his DUI stop in Adams Morgan last year. Strauss is one of the District’s two elected shadow senators, a symbolic position charged with lobbying for statehood that carries few privileges and no pay. Following his guilty plea, Strauss received 11 months probation and must pay $400 in fines. The police account of Strauss’s arrest…

WUSA9 reports that D.C. Council member Marion Barry (D-Ward 8) filed his 2007 tax returns. Barry’s 2007 state return was hand-delivered to the D.C. Tax office late Friday, and his federal return was delivered to the IRS office today. Earlier this month prosecutors asked a federal judge to jail Barry for failing once again to file a tax return, in violation of his parole. Barry has since said he failed to file because he was…

NBC4 gets the first react from Marion Barry on yesterday’s late breaking news that federal prosecutors will once again seek jail time for the D.C. Council member. Barry stands accused of violating his parole yet again by failing to file a tax return for the year 2007. In typical Barry style, the mayor for life pleads ignorance to the latest developments. “I haven’t seen any papers, I haven’t seen where they’ve been filed,” Barry said….

Vice President Dick Cheney puts his troubled heart in the care of George Washington University Medical Center (check out The Colonialist’s photos of Cheney waving to the crowd as he left yesterday afternoon), but the Liaison Committee on Medical Education has since put the medical school for which the hospital serves as a training ground on probation. The Post characterizes the probationary status of the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences as…