GOP-CONVENTION-GOVERNOR
Tea party hero Cuccinelli is Va. GOP gov nominee
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Virginia's activist conservative attorney general beloved by the tea party for his aggressive challenges to federal mandates has won the Republican Party's gubernatorial nomination.
Thousands of conservatives and tea party followers who dominated the Richmond Coliseum Saturday roared their unanimous support for Ken Cuccinelli, who was unopposed for the nomination.
Cuccinelli is an abortion foe who was the first state attorney general to challenge President Barack Obama's health care reforms in 2010.
He faces former Democratic National Committee chairman and Clinton family protege Terry McAuliffe in the Nov. 5 election to become Virginia's 72nd governor.
At age 44, the father of 7 becomes the youngest Republican nominee for Virginia governor since former Gov. George Allen 20 years ago.
GOP CONVENTION-ATTORNEY GENERAL
Obenshain nominated by GOP for Va attorney general
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - State Sen. Mark Obenshain has won the Republican nomination for attorney general in Virginia 35 years after his father won the party's U.S. Senate nomination.
Obenshain was nominated by acclamation on a voice vote after his rival, Del. Rob Bell, conceded defeat after the first ballot at the Virginia Republican Convention on Saturday.
Obenshain's father, Richard Obenshain, won the party's U.S. Senate nomination in the same building in 1978, but was killed in August of that year when a small plane carrying him home from a campaign event crashed when Mark Obenshain was 16. John W. Warner took his place on the ballot and won the first of 5 U.S. Senate terms.
Onstage with Obenshain when he accepted the nomination was his mother and Richard Obenshain's widow, Helen Obenshain.
FATAL SHOOTING-SOUTHEAST
Man fatally shot inside SE DC apartment
WASHINGTON (AP) - D.C. police say a 28-year-old man was shot and killed in an apartment blocks away from the Anacostia Metro station in southeast Washington.
The shooting occurred Thursday afternoon in the 1200 block of Talbert Street, Southeast.
Police say the victim, Charles Garris, was pronounced dead at the scene. He was taken to the medical examiner's office for an autopsy.
Police have not released any information about suspects or a possible motive.
YOGA EXIHBIT
Smithsonian asks public to help fund yoga exhibit
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Smithsonian is asking for the public to help fund an exhibit about the history of yoga.
The first-ever exhibition on the visual history of yoga is scheduled to debut this fall at the Sackler Gallery.
WRC-TV reports that on May 29, the Smithsonian will launch an online fundraising campaign that's the first of its time for the institution. The goal is to raise $125,000.
Curator Debra Diamond says yoga was a good subject for this kind of fundraising effort "because community has been part of it for centuries."
SECURITY CONSULTANT-PLEA
Man pleads guilty in international fraud case
WASHINGTON (AP) - A man who told people in Washington he was a former British spy has pleaded guilty to defrauding former business associates of $2.1 million.
Fifty-1-year-old Kevin Halligen pleaded guilty Friday in U.S. District Court.
The Washington Post reports that Halligen lived in the District of Columbia from 2005 to November 2008, working as a security consultant. He then fled the country when creditors started asking to be paid and was arrested a year later in Oxford, England.
Halligen pleaded guilty to defrauding Trafigura, a company based in the Netherlands. Court documents show Trafigura paid him $2.1 million to lobby on its behalf in the United States, but that he used most of that money to buy a large house in Great Falls, Va.
BICYCLIST KILLED
Bicyclist struck, killed on DC's busy U Street
WASHINGTON (AP) - D.C. police say a 50-year-old bicyclist was struck and killed by a car in the busy U Street, Northwest corridor.
The crash occurred just after 10 a.m. Thursday. Police say a male driver was heading east on U Street when his car struck a bicyclist at the intersection with 11th Street.
The bicyclist, 50-year-old Andre Brands, was not wearing a helmet. He was taken to a hospital, where he died.
The driver of the car was not hurt. Police are investigating the incident.
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