he said vince gray gave him cash and money orders to stay in the race and verbally attack the third candidate, then mayor, fenty. gray has repeatedly said he's done nothing wrong. >>> maryland has become a hub for human trafficking and the victims are often underage groups. tonight our scott broom reports on a crash course underway in maryland to teach police and prosecutors how to fight back. >> reporter: inside a silver spring hotel room, a 15-year- old girl was forced to have sex with numerous men after she was lured from new york with a fake modeling job. >> her cell phone had been taken, and they said there are guys coming up here and you will do these things. >> reporter: rodney hubert is serving five years in prison for human trafficking. >> it's emerging problem in maryland. >> reporter: today police were trained on how to prosecute offenders and identify victims. another area teen recently saved from gang members who used facebook to entice her to run away from her family. >> once she ran away to them, they put her in as a sex slave for the ms-13 gang. >> reporter: police heard from

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in a statement mayor vince gray says crime is down.alary will remain at the rate of $250,000 a year. >>> a man accused of killing a mother and daughter so he could abduct her sisters was in court today. the bodies of joanne bane and a 4-year-old were found outside tons. >>> the kiss against former presidential candidate john edwards. a former edwards spokesperson, now a white house staffer, testified about a tense scene in which edwards' late wife elizabeth blew up at donors. >>> if you've been hearing some random cheers, here's why. >> your washington capitals have just tied up their series with the new york rangers. kristen berset is live at verizon center. they tried their best to go into overtime. >> a little deja vu there. you were talking about some cheers. when about cow bells if there's plenty of that going on tonight. the caps playing some inspired hockey, backs against the wall. they yet to lose consecutive games, and that was not about to happen tonight. they got things started early. al location vetch kin who had zero shots

mayor vince gray will introduce a bill to rename a park in d.c. for chuck brown. eleanor homees norton the there to be a national chuck brown day and d.c. chairman brown wants there to be an entire go go hall of fame. >>> president obama spent the day trading jokes with former president george w. bush. bush's presidential portrait was unveiled at the white house today with his wife. and it's the first time the former president has been back to the white house in more than two years. he said the two have their differences and want america to succeed and bush had an inspiring -- for obama. >> i'm also pleased, mr. president, that when you were wandering the halls as you wrestle with tough decisions, you will now be able to game at this portrait and ask what would george do? >> there are three presidents in the room. former president george h.w. bush taking a moment to be noted as well. you might call earth easy, the spelling bee, that is. a local girl. the youngest person to qualify. there are two other locals hoping to take the title. see if you can outsell these c

developing story this evening, the first criminal case to come out of the year long investigation of the vince gray mayoral campaign. the assistant treasurer is expected to cop a plea to charges of wrongdoing tomorrow. fox 5's karen gray houston with the details. >> thomas gore is said to be a long time friend of mayor gray, one of his top campaign aides responsible for the day to day finances of the campaign. he is now facing one felony charge and three misdemeanors. court documents filed today charge gore with using money orders to make contributions in the name of another person. the court papers do not specifically name vincent gray or former mayoral candidate sulaimon brown, but the documents allege donations were transferred from candidate a to candidate b and that gore destroyed a record of those illegal payments. the charges seem to support allegations brown made after being fired from his job as an accountant in the dre administration. he said he was paid by -- defray administration. he said he was paid -- gray administration. he said he was paid by gray staffers to bash former mayor adria

mayor vince gray, is facing at least a year in prison. thomas gore admitted in court that he illegally diverted gray campaign funds to minor candidate brown. the plan was to have brown stay in the race as long as possible and launch political attacks on incumbent mayor fenty during the 2010 campaign. >>> a judge has found richard kim guilty of selling alcohol to a minor. now, kim owns the town square market on mcarthur boulevard and northwest. 9 news now has been investigating that place since last december. we witnessed dozens of alcohol purchases made by teenagers who said they were as young as 14. kim will be sentenced next month. >>> in campaign 2012 news tonight, it's not much more than a formality, but gop presidential candidate mitt romney has a couple more wins under his belt. the presumptive republican nominee claimed victories in kentucky and arkansas tonight. the obama administration is attacking romney's record in the business world. he helped start a company that made.com knees pizza profitable but shut down others like misso

mayor vince gray tweeted "the public may still pay their respects to mr. brown at his memorial service thursday beginning at 11:30 a.m. at the d.c. convention center, reporting live from the howard theater northwest washington, jackie bensen, news 4. >>> breaking news in culpeper, virginia, where a police officer was indicted on a murder charge tonight, stemming from the shooting of a woman in a church parking lot and we've just learned tois that mother was also arrested tonight. shamari stone joins us live. >> reporter: doreen this case has rocked a small town of culpeper. they have 42 police officers tonight, one is charged with murder. the grand jury came down with the four count indictment against officer daniel harmon wright, this is the moment gary cook waited for months for. >> i found out maybe a few months ago. >> reporter: gary cook speaks about the late breaking news regarding his wife, patricia cook. police officer wright is facing four charges, including murder. >> on one hand it feels relief, and on the other hand, it's showing me that progre

today, mayor vince gray and a mystery guest will kick off the season taking the first flung into onethe city's 19 public pools. that is happening this morning at the new rosedale community center in northeast. in addition to those 19 pools, d.c. has 11 spray parks and five children's pools. >> something to do if you are staying around here. also, if you are staying in town for the memorial day weekend, plenty going on. the rolling thunder motorcycle rally is sunday and thousands of bikers will leave from the pentagon at noon and head to the lincoln memorial. sunday at 8:00 p.m., there will be a free concert on the west lawn of the u.s. capitol and the national parade is monday. it is 2:00 p.m. along constitution avenue. by the way, can you catch the parade right here on fox 5. actor gary sinise and miss america 2012 will join the parade route along constitution avenue. you can watch it live starting at 2:00 p.m. >> get a little madonna going on this memorial day weekend. & celebrate &&. >> all right. >> that was a long time ago. >> yeah, it was. >> lots of traditions. we do rolling t

and mayor vince gray ordered that all d.c. flags be flown at half staff all in honor of chuck brown. and broadcast thursday's memorial service live on our air and website at wusa9.com. >> a metro employee is in serious condition after being struck by a train and getting pin underneath it. this happened earlier this morning at the shady grove rail yard. how do you think this accident happened, kristen? >> well, i tell you what. this is an absolutely brutal accident. the metro worker, an employee for 25 years was pinned under this train for over an hour and they had to call in a surgical shock trauma team to get him out. this accident did not happen right here at the actual station. it happened right over here over at the shady grove rail yard and that's where they keep the trains overnight and when they are brought in for maintenance. it's important it happened there because it means the train was not going fast. just a few miles an hour. it was enough to take the worker down and pin him underneath. i want to show you a picture

the city had been facing a deficit of $170 million but a statement from mayor vince gray thanks the council for not adding any new taxes or fees. the new budget has a backup plan in case the federal government shuts down. >>> maryland lawmakers are one step closer to approving a budget bill. house of delegates is expected to vote on their version of the bill today. this after maryland's senate approved a package yesterday that would increase income taxes on people would make more than $100,000 and also split teacher pension costs with local governments over four years. today is scheduled to be the last of the day special session. >>> police have arrested a man they say orchestrated a hit on on another man. police believe michael ruzniak made the arainesments last week. detectives believe the motive as an ongoing feud. >>> police arrested a man they say was videotaping his female coworkers in the bathroom. police say this man, matthew burkemeyer placeed a small video camera in the rest room at the woodsboro bank. he is charged with 36 counts of private place recording with sexual intent and

mayor vince gray and chief kenneth eler elerby spoke at this event. >>> which state is the first to approvese to test self- driving cars out on the public streets. also ahead, you heard the saying, you got your hand caught in the cookie jar? how about this little guy? he got his arm stuck in the gum ball machine. let's hope he got some gum balls with that. lesli. >> reporter: and i'm here, derek, at the tinly town fire station talking about cooking safety and how this device could save a life. >>> the kitchen may well be the heart of the home, but it only takes a split second for a raging fire to engulf the whole room, ruin your whole day. >> lesli foster joins us from engine company 20 to talk about a must-see consumer alert. lesli. >> reporter: that's right, guys. kitchen fires are the most common way that people are injured with these fire related injuries and the national fire protection association says about 2,000 people die from those kinds of injuries each year. so only on 9 tonight, we're going to show you the wrong and right way to put out one of those fires. >> she had been burnt

this is at the center of vince gray's political life dating back to the council. >> i guess cooperating with authorities means he is probably going to have to make a deal. >> he is facing 20 years for destroying evidence so we'll see what he knows. >> okay. thanks, tom. >> thank you, tom. >>> rainy day out there. and, doug, i'm getting the impression we might as well get used to this right? >> you might as well. yeah. i saw you come in with your umbrella today. i would change umbrellas if i was you. i would still take your umbrella and keep it handy over the next couple days. we have clouds and sunshine now. some blue skies. but yes. get used to that rain. we are going to see it around. right now mostly cloudy skies. 75 degrees. winds out of the south about 3 miles per hour. current temperatures 67 in martinsburg. 72 in culpepper. a little warmer to the east though. 75 in easton and cambridge. temperatures there nearly 80 today as a result of some sunshine but this is where we're seeing the rain and the temperatures are still back into the 60s. here's what's going on in the satellite an

. >> it does send a song to the other investigations such as qualmy brown and vince gray. >> thomas promised to work to restore his representation. can he regain his political career or retore that? >> if he gets into community service and tries to pay off -- some way pay off his debt in monetary sums and in real hard-driving ways, you know, contrition and that kind of thing. voters love a person that changes course and becomes a good person when they have been a bad person. >> i talked to one at large council member that told me it would be difficult for him once he comes out of the prison mainly because it will be difficult to get a job in government. the whole thing here is public trust. public trust does not easily go away. >> marion barry, he had his downs and ups -- >> but barry never stole money from children, and he never stole money from the government -- >> yeah, you are right. he never did anything like that. >> anything is possible. but let's say you have a new breed of politicians coming in, and i don't know it will be as easy as it has in the past. they bring in a whole new att

mayor vince gray will join relatives of the victims and first responders to unveil a plaque this morning. in 2009, a malfunctioning electronic circuit caused two trains to collide. >>> the woman suspected in last week's deadly hit-and-run in fairfax county now says she was trying to get away from the other car. her lawyer says the other car ran a stopsign and she swerved. but arrington got out of her car is the allegation there, but arrington died after she was run over. mcmillan said she didn't intend to hit her with her vehicle. >>> 28 people arrested for smuggling drugs into virginia. they're charged with running a cocaine smuggling ring that brought millions of dollars of cocaine to northern virginia over the last six years. many of those arrested were illegal immigrants living in the commonwealth. the feds say the cocaine came from honduras and they are trying to follow its path. >> honduras isn't a source country, so we're trying to figure out where it was produced, who was profiting from it. >> they hid the drugs in things like shoes and wooden frames. >>> another big drug bust in