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Pat Collins

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NBC4 reporter and all-around standup individual.

Washington, DC
Joined December 2009
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Pat Collins
4 years
I have written a memoir... It’s about growing up on H street in DC... It’s about being a newspaper reporter... It’s about going to war... It’s about covering murders... It’s about measuring snow... It’s about people I met along the way...
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Pat Collins
6 years
This whole playoff series drew casual hockey fans into the sport.. This Caps team easy to like...no big egos...they carry their own luggage...they take Metro to the game... they mix and party with the fans...they are apart of us.. Coach Barry Trotz...even tempered understated...
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Pat Collins
7 years
For some reason I thought he would never die... He was a man's man... He loved motorcycles... He went on bizzare hunting and fishing trips..
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Pat Collins
5 years
Anyone up for a parade?
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Pat Collins
3 years
Could be a double snow stick day… watch News 4 for details…
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5 years
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Pat Collins
4 years
In my heart...I am an old newspaper man... when The Post comes... I read it systematically... scan front page read Metro ... scan Sports... back to front Page then Style... During COVID my strategy has shifted... On straight to Food section...today this dish...Hmmmm so good...
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Pat Collins
4 years
Good News...Big shipment of News Man books will arrive at Politics and Prose today... first printing sold out last week in a couple days...check it out...it’s about covering murders and measuring snow and other stuff... read and enjoy...
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Pat Collins
4 years
Newsman...the TV version..inside stories about my stories...I’ll be dishing with Doreen this week on News 4... check it out..
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Pat Collins
7 years
And began to talk...poetry...indeed if there was a Washington Broadcasting Hall of Fame...Jim Vance would be Number One...News 4 at 6...
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Pat Collins
4 years
A murder at a gender reveal party... caught on camera... we have the pictures as the celebration turns to sorrow... News 4 at 5
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Pat Collins
9 years
Imagine this...your grandmother dies...you go to her viewing...you look down at the casket...wrong woman
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Pat Collins
4 years
News Man... the autographed edition...great gift idea for the holidays... Because of COVID I could not do traditional book signing... Good people at P&P arranged for me to sign limited number of News Man books (no extra charge).... My memoir available at Politics and Prose...
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Pat Collins
5 years
With Elle grand Marshall of Apple Blossom Parade...I think she said I’m her favorite reporter... or something like that...
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3 years
Another Pat’s Prized Pets challenge begins today on News 4…
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Pat Collins
6 years
Want a Pat Collins Snow Stick of your very own? Enter the Sunday Snow Suit Challenge... Make a fashion statement... Put on your best snow outfit... Go outside... Strike a pose... Take picture... Tweet it to pat SnowStick... Best outfit gets the stick...
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Pat Collins
8 years
Big thanks to everyone who sent kind words on my 30th anniversary with NBC 4...Good News Always and love to all...
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Pat Collins
7 years
Want to go to Skins Raiders game with me? Did I mention that we'll have a stretch limo...field passes...club seats and my boss's Amex...
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Pat Collins
3 years
The judges have spoken…snow stick challenge winner will announced on news 4 at 5…
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Pat Collins
5 years
Holy credentials... the Nats celebration continues ...
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Pat Collins
4 years
Dish this week cod fish with peppers thyme and olives cooked on flat pan in oven...recipe from NYT...I like it because it’s fast...uses only one pan... but most of all it tastes great... see what the pandemic does to you...
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Pat Collins
6 years
Since I couldn’t say it in morning meeting... if maroon 5 did a concert on my deck.. I’d close the drapes...
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Pat Collins
4 years
The snow stick is out... but is this storm stick worthy... I’ve got some numbers coming up News 4...
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Pat Collins
3 years
For everyone who was told they were too old... or too slow...or too out of touch to do what they love to to... I say Phil Mickelson...
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Pat Collins
7 years
The more dangerous the hunt...the better he liked... And could he tell a story... when he looked into the barrel of the lens of a camera....
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Pat Collins
4 years
Finally... Finally... Finally... Something to measure... A chance for some one to get an official Pat Collins Snow Stick of their very own... Challenge will be announced on News 4 at 6 tonite... It ends Monday nite... Winner announced on Tuesday... Spread the word...
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Pat Collins
4 years
It’s been more than two years... snow stick is finally back...how you can get one of your very own...watch News4 at 6...
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6 years
HERE WE GO...gearing up for first snow stick challenge of the year... tell your friends... tell your family...you could get an official Pat Collins Snow Stick of your very own... Watch News 4...We’ll kick it off around 9 this morning...
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Pat Collins
3 years
I have many many many fond memories of Thanksgiving… the family…the food… the good times…great conversations… EXCEPT…that one year when Clint Longley ruined it all…No pumpkin pie that night… Do you remember?
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Pat Collins
7 years
The Snow Stick is coming out... There will be a challenge... A chance to get a stick of your very own... Get creative and watch News 4 for the rules...
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Pat Collins
4 years
It’s about people I met along the way... It’s about television news... It’s about 288 pages long.... Check it out at Politics and Prose...
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Pat Collins
6 years
Hooray...I can breathe again...trash finally picked up...kind offer of help from councilwoman Anita Bonds...I can put can of Febreze away...
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Pat Collins
7 years
Me and my date Lenitra and her son Alex...now off to Fedex field...
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Pat Collins
3 years
Armed suspected white supremiscist…said he was just patrolling… but he picked a bad place to do it… book em Dano…news 4 coming up..
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Pat Collins
6 years
Same 🤗
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Patiently waiting for the sn❄️w to arrive like... #mood
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Pat Collins
6 years
I’m dreaming of a white January 13th... come meet the Pat Collins Snow Stick at the NBC health and firtness expo...I’ll be there Sunday...
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Pat Collins
9 years
Another snow stick challenge another chance to get an official Pat Collins snow stick ...clue:you don't have to be in it to win it...
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Pat Collins
6 years
I love to know what Trotz says to the team in locker room...it certainly works on the ice... And finally Las Vegas...what a great stage for Caps...what a great place to win The Cup...what a great place to be Elvis...it’s good to be the king... thank you... thank you very much...
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Pat Collins
7 years
Snow Stick challenge Hint #1 ....you don’t need a lot of snow to win...
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Pat Collins
7 years
Time to get your Irish up St.Pat’s Parade starts at noon...
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Pat Collins
3 years
A man says time for talking is done… Another stand off on Capitol Hill… Video of the take down coming up News 4…
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Pat Collins
7 years
Now many many years later...I am honored to be named Grand Marshal of Washington’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade...It’s March 11th...I’m too large for that Leprechaun outfit...but I’ll be wearing something green for sure...spread the word...see you there...
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Pat Collins
8 years
My first Gingerbread house...And I didn't eat one single piece of candy...OK maybe a few gum drops...
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Pat Collins
9 years
Ok I'm out...your human weather station...the first official Pat Collins snow stick measurement at 9...yikes it's a big one...
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Pat Collins
4 years
News Man book back on the shelves... First printing sold out fast... Now Politics and Prose has a new shipment.. It’s not about the presidential election... It’s not about the pandemic... It a story book that can provide some relief from all that angst... Check it out at P&P...
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Pat Collins
6 years
For CAPS a modest proposal...for Saturday’s home game a “quiet out”...absolute silence before game...National Anthem played by solo sax...when puck drops all hell breaks loose...red rocking on steroids...
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Pat Collins
8 years
COP I smell marijuana DRIVER I just smoked a joint it's in the ash tray COP any more in there? DRIVER about 100 pounds Book em Daniel..
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Pat Collins
11 years
You can steal a man's phone... You can steal a man's wallet... You can steal a man's car... But to steal a man's dog...low real low
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Pat Collins
3 years
So what did you do Father’s Day? Play golf? Go to the beach? This man hunted down an alligator off the shores of the Chesapeake Bay… Watch News 4 tonight…
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Pat Collins
7 years
My father was a doctor...when I was a little boy...on St. Patrick’s Day...he would dress me up as a Leprechaun...and take me around to visit his patients...Here I am with Sister Felicita at Providence Hospital..She ran the kitchen ... there was always a sweet treat for me there..
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Pat Collins
9 years
This is starting to bring out my inner altar boy...
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Pat Collins
6 years
A few thoughts on Stanley Cup...Caps...DC and Vegas... Finally after years of frustration and disappointment.. Washington gets the Cup... Ovie gets the recognition...and the city gets a sports memory that will last forever... Save that Post...don’t use it for crabs it’s a keeper
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Pat Collins
4 years
Want a Pat Collins SnowStick... Enter the Stir Crazy SnowStick Challenge...We’ve been cooped up so long...Now an excuse to take it outside... Do something creative in the snow... Take a picture... send it to NBC Washington... Best pic gets the stick... Challenge goes to 7pm...
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Pat Collins
6 years
Now that is a high honor for the snowstick
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Now on display in hallway outside @MayorBowser ’s office is @PatsSnowStick which @patcollins4 presented @MurielBowser during last snow fall. It shares the display case with the @Jeopardy clue and other valuable gifts to DC. @nbcwashington
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Pat Collins
7 years
Be my date..Redskins-Raiders game.. Stretch limo...field pass...club seats...Boss's Amex...Enter on Facebook...NBC Washington...
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Pat Collins
9 years
Snow stick challenge ends at 8pm...most creative cabin fever cure gets the stick...judging next week...still time to enter...
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Pat Collins
8 years
Crime reporter becomes crime victim... Now it's personal...yesterday some one stole my foul weather jacket from my car...
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Pat Collins
4 years
Check out excerpt from News Man in November issue of The Washingtonian... Then check out the entire News Man book at Politics and Prose... Local reporter...local magazine...local book store... Read and enjoy...
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Pat Collins
8 years
Using a stolen church van ... To steal an ATM...that violates a couple laws and a couple Commandments...
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Pat Collins
7 years
It’s not all sunglasses and limousines...St. Pat’s Parade Grand Marshal at spin class... getting in shape for Sunday’s Parade... Big Irish fun in our city...Whew... I think I just worked off about half of a half and half...
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Pat Collins
6 years
whoops...more snow coming...change of plans...watch this space...
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Pat Collins
5 years
Getting ready for Apple Blossom Festival in Winchester Va....speech this morning...parade this afternoon... real big parade tomorrow...there is a big bloom going on here...
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Pat Collins
5 years
Going to Nats parade come see Julie Carey and me at 12th and Constitution Ave... she may bring special World Series souvenir...
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Pat Collins
3 years
Security fence coming back to Capitol… warning from chief trouble makers …stay home…
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Pat Collins
7 years
So there you are on a sunny and warm week-end day...you go outside...and there in your back yard...there is a human foot...911...
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Pat Collins
6 years
Okay it’s not the Stanley Cup... but there are only about a dozen of them out there...I’m talking about the official Pat Collins Snow Stick...and this morning it will be at the opening of the Law Enforcement Museum...10 am I’ll see you there...
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Pat Collins
3 years
Hockey has the cup… Football has the ring… Baseball the pennant… But only Pat’s Prized Pets has the Bowl… And tonite we’re giving it away… Watch News4…
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Pat Collins
4 years
In the words of the great John Riggins: I am bored...I am broke...I am back.... Spent time in Annapolis trying to socially distance from family and jellyfish in the Bay... Today back on News 4 with a new special version of Pat’s Prize Pets...the look alike challenge today at 4..
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Pat Collins
8 years
At Dulles Airport...undeterred by Skins loss to Lions...these diehard fans heading to London for Bengals game..metoo
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Pat Collins
10 years
Big News ... tomorrow Bryan Thompson ...known to many as Banana Man will graduate from High School...
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Pat Collins
9 years
Tonight my summer officially began in Naptown...pass the Old Bay...and uncork a cold one... http://t.co/e4tAsdQNKx
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Pat Collins
6 years
Wig store robbery gets ugly and violent...pepper spray... kicking... wig slapping...it’s all on tape and News 4 has it...
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Pat Collins
7 years
So a guy rams his truck into your bakery so you: A. Buy him a cup of coffee B. Give him a hug... C. Take a selfie with him. D. All of above... News 4@ 5
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Pat Collins
9 years
Bingo ...Bango...Bongo...3 bank jobs in 15 minutes...this guy went through Montgomery County faster than the red line...
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6 years
Man goes out for food...disappears for two days...car in ditch...man in brush...drinks puddle water to survive...family frantic...no worries... this one has a happy ending...
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Pat Collins
7 years
Whew !! Feeling real good about skins...be my date at next week's Raider's game... stretch limo... field pass... club seats... boss's Amex..
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Pat Collins
7 years
With WTOP’s Jason Farley hydrating at Dubliner in preparation for St. Paddy’s Parade Sunday...Catch his reports on TOP and the Parade Sunday...I’m your Grand Marshall...it will be Big Irish Fun...
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5 years
Providence Hospital died today... It was 158 years old... For me it’s personal... Watch News 4@ 6...
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Pat Collins
7 years
Trip to Redskins game has begun
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7 years
St. Pat’s Parade Sunday in DC...Will sun shine? Will it rain? Will it snow? Sheena knows... watch our News 4 weather team... But no matter what we WILL March... We’re Irish we are ready to Parade anytime... send in the bagpipes...
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3 years
Little white sock...big clue in vicious home invasion...They posed as cops... duct taped a family... threatened cut a man’s eyes out..for 18 years it went unsolved... Now an arrest...News 4 @5 ....
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Pat Collins
9 years
What kind of thieves would steal IPads used by little kids...Well,I don't know their names...but I have their pictures...
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Pat Collins
8 years
Look in the sky... It's not a bird... It's not a plane... It's Green Peace...
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6 years
He went to Jared and walked away with about $15,000 in jewelry...but was it larceny in his heart or was it love...watch News and decide for yourself...
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6 years
What happens when your getaway car...goes away...a stumbling bumbling ATM heist... Final score: Money machine 1 Thieves 0 Watch News 4
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4 years
Woman walks her dogs...gets ambushed by a bear...he bites her twice in the leg...swats her around like rag doll...serious injuries to eye ear and scalp...but she uses old time trick to save her life...News 4 @4 ...
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Pat Collins
7 years
My boss has given me tix & limo to @Redskins v. @RAIDERS game😱Want to come with!? Hurry before she changes her mind!
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Pat Collins
5 years
We have already won the World Series... now let’s win the party..bring a sign a souvenir of World Series memory... see you at 12th an Constitution...now giddy up....
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Pat Collins
10 years
The snow stick makes it's first appearance soon...stay tuned...
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Pat Collins
8 years
See the official Pat Collins Snow Stick... See it... Touch it... Get your picture taken with it... A News 4 keepsake ...10am Sunday.Be there
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Pat Collins
7 years
Didn't get those special glasses? Missed the magic moment...not to worry...We have the Pat Collins Eclipse kit...
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Pat Collins
7 years
It’s after four o’clock...do you know where your car door is? Well if you live in Alexandria you might want to double check...
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Pat Collins
4 years
Does your pet look like you? Do you look like your pet? Still time to be a big bowl winner...pat’s prized pets the look a like challenge...Wednesday judges choose winner...send in those pictures...
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Pat Collins
8 years
Lots of people in red, white & blue at #Inauguration but Zoie is decked out head to toe. And I mean toe #NBC4DC at 6
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Pat Collins
7 years
We are all familiar with the Hamburglar...tonight meet the shredded beef bandit...
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Pat Collins
8 years
I have covered all sorts of robberies... Bank robberies... Convenience store robberies... But this guy hits a Dollar Tree store...
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3 years
Murder plea in that fatal botched carjacking near Nats Park...The suspect a 15 year old girl...news 4 @5 ...
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Pat Collins
9 years
Big thanks to everyone who participated in the snow stick challenge...Entries very creative...Big fun...Can't wait to do it again...
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Pat Collins
7 years
It's about an assault with a cup...a cup of urine...does anybody know where the nearest shower might be?
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7 years
Book ‘m Dano...suspect in string of car vacuum coin thefts now in custody...several warrants in play in Fairfax...
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