From the incomprehensible tragedy of the Navy Yard shootings to the elation of the Marine Corps Marathon and the beauty of the Cherry Blossom Festival -- 2013 was a year full of highlights and lowlights for a D.C. reporter.

2013 -- Highlights and Lowlights

The Barkley Marathon is called a race but the truth is that only a handful of people in history have finished the annual 100-miler in the hills of Tennessee. When Jonathan Basham emerged in 2010 after more than 58 hours of running in the harshest of conditions, he had done it. An interview I'll never likely forget. (Photo courtesy of Ray Smith.)

Finishing the Barkley

Chad Kagy was only 20-years-old when I profiled the X-Games bicyclist for ABC's Perspective in 1999. The story came in advance of X-Games in San Francisco. Many times I've wondered how his life turned out -- he had a ridiculous number of injuries back then -- but he keeps popping up on the television, Web, and at major competitions ... even winning Gold at the X-Games as late as 2010.  He was amazing to watch in practice and it would seem from a distance he chose the best course for his life.

No Regrets -- X-Gamer Chad Kagy

In 2011 the Illinois public learned that a confessed rapist named Juan Rivera hadn't committed the crime. So, why did he confess? And why does Illinois have the highest rate of false confessions? FM News Chicago's Kevin Patrick reports ... 

Why Confess to a Crime You Didn't Commit?

His wife and three kids assumed he was dead. Now, 32 years later, a Highland Park man has plead guilty to fraud …

Hungry Heart

Duke Ellington is back at the Howard Theater. A massive statue of the DC native is being put in place today as Ellington Plaza anticipates a re-birth. WNEW reporter Kevin Patrick has more on the sculpture and its purpose ...

Traveling with a Legend

Reporter of 23 years -- runner, dad, health writer and media relations specialist. 

Kevin Patrick Allen