New fish species named in honor of Va. scientist

By WTOP Staff
May 22, 2014 | 4:10 AM

GLOUCESTER, Va. (AP) — A newly identified fish species has been named in memory of a Virginia scientist.

The Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences says the honor was bestowed by two Smithsonian scientists who published a paper on a new species of sea bass. John Olney received the recognition posthumously this month.

Olney died in 2010. He was 62. He had a special fascination with the larvae of marine fishes.

Study co-author Carole Baldwin says Olney would have loved the “little fish story” on the new species.

The new species is named liopropoma olneyi.

Police arrest a California man after finding a guillotine near the US Capitol

By The Associated Press
August 25, 2026 | 8:19 PM

WASHINGTON (AP) 鈥� United States Capitol Police on Tuesday arrested a California man with what they said was a guillotine in the bed of a pickup truck parked near the U.S. Capitol complex. Police detained 35-year-old Philan-Tam-Duy Le of Julian, California, shortly after 3 p.m., when the truck he was driving containing the device was illegally parked east of the Capitol grounds, Capitol police said. Officers said they were investigating why the suspect, who drove from California, had made the trip and why he was transporting it. A guillotine is an instrument for administering capital punishment by beheading and consists of a heavy blade mounted on a tall wooden frame. It was invented in late-18th Century France and became a symbol of the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution.

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