Area news in brief: Bowser will name new workforce official
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Version 0 of 1. D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser on Monday will appoint a new chairman of the city’s Workforce Investment Council, filling a position that has been vacant for half a year. The council, which is led by the private sector, is tasked with advising the mayor and District government on the use of federal job-training money. The District has failed to spend tens of millions of dollars allocated for job-training and employment programs in recent years. Analysts and training providers have criticized the city’s inability to fill key positions on the Workforce Investment Council. The District is the only jurisdiction in the nation that the Labor Department classifies as a “high-risk” partner in job- training and employment programs. It is one of only two jurisdictions — along with the Virgin Islands — to be formally sanctioned this year by the federal government for its failure to meet performance measures in job training. — Abigail Hauslohner District police have arrested and charged a man in connection with the Oct. 6 killing of 20-year-old Muhammed Washington, the city’s police department said. Dion Xavier Martin, 23, of Northeast was arrested Friday and charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of Washington, who was found on 42nd Street NE, police said. — Abigail Hauslohner A man was stabbed and seriously wounded and a woman was also wounded in the 7800 block of Georgia Avenue in Silver Spring early Sunday. Capt. Paul Starks, a Montgomery County police spokesman, said the 3 a.m. stabbing was thought to have followed an argument in which some participants knew each other. — Abigail Hauslohner A serial street robber, armed and masked, has been tied to seven holdups since September in Fairfax County. Police said the man has approached his victims on foot in the southeastern section of the county near Pohick Road and Richmond Highway, and demanded cash or property at gunpoint. The latest holdup was Wednesday, police said. — Martin Weil |