D.C. Joins National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day
Officials in Washington are participating in the Drug Enforcement Administration's "National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day."
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Officials in Washington are participating in the Drug Enforcement Administration's "National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day."
Washington police say a district man has been charged with murder for the death of another man following a street fight.
Metro says customers traveling on Metrorail this weekend can expect delays because of track work taking place on four of the system's five lines.
District of Columbia police say they have arrested three men in connection with an armed robbery at the city's Eastern Market last month that left one man badly beaten.
D.C. police will resume blood-alcohol tests for suspected drunken drivers later this week, two years after the program was suspended because of testing equipment flaws.
The National Book Festival is opening with more than 100 authors and thousands of visitors on the National Mall in Washington.
President Lincoln's Cottage is displaying a rare, signed copy of the Emancipation Proclamation to mark the 150th anniversary of the order to freeing slaves during the Civil War.
Authorities say a man who was charged in connection with the death of a D.C. school principal has been killed during a robbery attempt.
The most-visited museums in the U.S. are about to launch their first-ever national advertising campaign to connect more people with the Smithsonian Institution online, in schools or in the museums themselves.
New census figures show one in four Baltimore residents living in poverty.
MARC trains on the Penn Line from Perryville to Washington are experiencing delays of 30 minutes to an hour because of signal issues.
Metro says customers traveling on Metrorail this weekend can expect delays of up to 20 minutes on several lines because of weekend work.
Metro says a real-time computer monitoring system is now in place to detect and warn of the type of problem that caused the 2009 train crash in which nine people died.
Observing the anniversary of 9/11. The September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks shocked the world and made homeland security a national imperative.
Federal prosecutors say a former campaign aide to District of Columbia Mayor Vincent Gray has provided "substantial assistance" to investigators, and they won't insist that he serve any jail time.
District of Columbia health officials are reporting the city's first West Nile virus death.
Authorities are investigating a series of taxicab robberies in northeast Washington and say they may be related.
The reflecting pool in front of the Lincoln Memorial on the National Mall has reopened after a two-year, $34 million reconstruction.
The owner of an online prostitution ring that generated nearly $2 million from across metropolitan Washington has been sentenced to nearly three years in prison.
A nonprofit group that's working to restore the National Mall is seeking volunteers to help guide the park's millions of visitors.
Benjamin Franklin's three-piece silk suit worn on a diplomatic mission to France in 1778 is joining the permanent collection of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History.
The Smithsonian's National Zoo is preparing to open a renovated section featuring seals, California sea lions, beavers, eagles and other North American animals.
A year after the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial opened to visitors on the National Mall, the group behind the monument is still working with the National Park Service to change an inscription quoting the civil rights leader and is planning to bring new programs to the site.
Veterinarians at the National Zoo say an ultrasound examination on the female giant panda Mei Xiang can't yet determine whether she is pregnant.
A Virginia man opposed to the politics of a conservative lobbying group was indicted Wednesday on charges stemming from the shooting of a security guard at the group's Washington headquarters.
