Staff, The Examiner
2008-04-12 10:45:58.0
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Students, adults treated after school-bus crash

Six students and two adults were taken to a hospital as a precaution Friday after a school bus collided with a pickup truck, authorities said.

None of the children were injured, but they were taken to D.C. Children's Hospital for observation, said D.C. fire department spokesman Alan Etter. Two adults were also taken to the hospital as a precaution.

The crash happened in the unit block of P Street SW just before 9 a.m. The students attended Jackie Robinson Elementary School. - Scott McCabe

Police say man kills girlfriend, self

An Annandale man shot and killed his girlfriend before taking his own life in her Alexandria-area home on Thursday, Fairfax County police said.

Robert Persigehl, 46, and Vanessa Miller, 48, were pronounced dead at the scene after officers, who were responding to a possible suicide at the residence that afternoon, found the two with gunshot wounds to the upper body, according to a police news release.

The killing was part of an unusual spate of homicides in the typically low-crime Fairfax County. A 29-year-old Lincolnia man was stabbed to death during an early Sunday morning dispute, police said. The week before, a 42-year-old Reston woman was killed in her home. -William C. Flook

Three arrested in homicide of Popeye's manager

A late-night tip Thursday led to homicide charges against three men wanted for the killing of a Woodbridge Popeye's Restaurant manager during a botched robbery attempt in January, Prince William County Police said Friday. Police charged Daniel Lipscomb, 26, of Woodbridge; Andre Williams, 21, of Dale City; and James William Carolina, 19, of Woodbridge, with murder, attempted robbery, and use of a firearm in a felony. Two men, one armed with a knife, and the other with a gun, entered the fast-food restaurant on Smoketown Road in Woodbridge about 11 p.m. Jan. 22, and shot the manager, Keith Jamar Truesdale, 23, of Woodbridge. Truesdale was unable to open the safe. - Dan Genz