Here’s a story we missed from earlier this week: Via the Boston Globe, D.C. taxicab driver Ermiyas A. Asfaw was arraigned on Monday in Boston on charges of joking that he was a member of Al Qaeda and that he planned to “blow things up” at Logan International Airport. Asfaw was checking in for a flight on AirTran on Saturday night when an agent asked him why he had stickers on his luggage from Dubai….

Maryland State Police are on the lookout for a green pickup truck after yesterday’s crash on I-270 that killed two people. Officials say Christian Luciano, 28 and Lindsay Bender, 25, both from Harrisburg, Pa., were in a ’98 Sebring when they “began exchanging obscene gestures” with the pickup driver. When the truck swerved in front of the car and hit its breaks, Luciano and Bender ran into the guardrail and were thrown from the…

As if things weren’t bad enough for the Redskins this season, rookie standout Sean Taylor was pulled over and charged with DUI early Wednesday morning. Virginia State Police Lt. Harry Newlin pulled Taylor over at 2:45 a.m., on the Beltway. Taylor was taken into custody after he failed a sobriety test at the scene and then refused a breathlizer. He was later released on a $5,000 personal recognizance bond and is due in a…

A dramatic and firy crash on Route 301 in Brandywine, Maryland killed three yesterday. The accident involved a dump truck, a catering truck, a taxi cab, and three other vehicles. According to the AP, the accident began when a taxi swerved into the southbound lane after seeing a broken down Ford blocking the lane. According to a spokesman for the Maryland State Police, that caused a “dump truck to lose control, which veered to the…