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Police Have Found Missing Man from Md.

ROCKVILLE, Md. (WUSA9) -- Police have located a missing man who's cell phone was found near Gallery Place/Chinatown Metro Station. 

Eddie Lee Jeffries, 23, of Bowie Road in Rockville had been missing since Tuesday, police said.   

He was believed to have left the Rockville area on the Metrorail towards Washington, D.C.. He was on his way to a dance studio in Capital Heights, MD, police said. 

Jeffries has returned home safely, police said. 

 

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Hackers stole $45 million in ATM card breach

NEW YORK (AP) -- A gang of cyber-criminals stole $45 million in a matter of hours by hacking their way into a database of prepaid debit cards and then draining cash machines around the globe, federal prosecutors said Thursday.

Brooklyn U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch called it "a massive 21st-century bank heist" and compared it to the Lufthansa heist in the late 1970s immortalized in the film "Goodfellas." Lynch said the fraudsters had moved with astounding speed to loot financial institutions around the world.

Seven people are under arrest in the U.S. in connection with the case, which prosecutors said involved thousands of thefts from ATMs using bogus magnetic swipe cards. The accused ringleader in the U.S. cell, Alberto Yusi Lajud-Pena, was reportedly murdered in the Dominican Republic late last month, prosecutors said. More investigations are ongoing and other arrests have been made in other countries, but prosecutors did not have details.

Manassas Hires Compliance Officer and Releases 2012 Water Quality Report

Manassas Hires Compliance Officer and Releases 2012 Water Quality Report

 

The City of Manassas Department of Public Works and Utilities recently welcomed Derek Howard as their new compliance officer. A 20-year veteran chemist and environmental specialist from Florida, Howard is responsible for ensuring safe drinking water in Manassas City and working with the City of Manassas Treatment plant operators, the Virginia Department of Health and the Department of Environmental Quality. The Manassas Public Works/Utilities Department just released the 2012 Water Quality Report, available in digital format on their website. For information about Manassas City Water Quality, go to www.manassascity.org/waterqualityreport.

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Election Today Will Decide Mark Sanford's Fate

WASHINGTON (USA TODAY) --  Disgraced ex-South Carolina governor Mark Sanford will learn Tuesday night whether the "God of second chances" has heard his prayers.

If he loses the special election in South Carolina's 1st Congressional District to Democrat Elizabeth Colbert Busch, the Republican who was once touted as a possible presidential candidate says he won't run for office again.

"I think you can go back in and you can ask for a second chance in a political sense once," Sanford told the Associated Press and other news outlets. "I've done that, and we'll see what the voters say."

Voters are deciding whether they will be represented by Sanford, who was their congressman from 1995 to 2001, or Colbert Busch, a political neophyte and sister of comedian of Stephen Colbert. Mitt Romney carried the district by 18 percentage points in the 2012 presidential election.

Teenager Speaks About The Aftermath Of Her Brother's Suicide

WASHINGTON (WUSA9)--Sixteen year-old Leilani Tizon is a courageous teenager who talks candidly about an issue rarely discussed in public: suicide.

It's the 10th leading cause of death for Americans, and it leaves shattered families in its wake.

"It sounds harsh but I've spent the last five years thinking that my brother doesn't love me. And that this is my fault," Leilani told us, from the living room of her suburban Washington home.

Growing up, Leilani and Christopher Tizon were inseparable.

"My brother and I were best friends. We were 6 ½ years apart," she said. "He was 18 when everything happened. I was 11."

Their father, Robert, was on a deployment to Saudi Arabia with the Air Force, when Christopher put a loaded gun to his left temple and pulled the trigger.

"He was very handsome," said Leilani, glancing over her shoulder at a large framed photo of her brother. She smiles.