D.C. Names New Director Of Public School Athletics
Public schools in Washington have a new director of athletics, the first woman to head the department.
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Public schools in Washington have a new director of athletics, the first woman to head the department.
Washington's National Cathedral held its first public worship service since it was damaged in an August earthquake.
A new bishop has been consecrated at the Washington National Cathedral -- the first event at the cathedral since it was damaged by an earthquake in August.
Authorities are investigating a report that gunshots were fired in the vicinity of the White House.
They plan to walk through Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland and arrive in Washington by Nov. 23-- the deadline for a congressional committee to decide whether to keep President Barack Obama's extension of Bush-era tax cuts.
Police in the nation's capital have arrested nearly 3,500 drivers in the past two years whose tags had expired or who had failed to register their cars, but the vast majority weren't locked up.
District of Columbia police and Occupy DC protesters are offering conflicting accounts about a weekend incident in which a motorist struck three protesters near a downtown demonstration.
Police in Washington have identified a man who was shot to death near the Howard University campus.
The National Park Service is offering more free tickets for this year's national Christmas tree lighting ceremony in Washington than in years past.
Thousands of people led by the Rev. Al Sharpton rallied Saturday near the Washington Monument, where speakers called for easier job access and decried the gulf between rich and poor before the crowd marched to the new Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial. The rally was intended to drum up support for President Barack Obama's jobs plan, which died Tuesday in the U.S. Senate.
It is a delicate operation, yet engineers and stone masons say they're making significant progress in repairing the National Cathedral.
The National Air and Space Museum in Washington was closed Saturday after anti-war demonstrators swarmed the building to protest a drone exhibit and security guards used pepper spray to repel them, sickening a number of protesters.
He was known as a ferocious competitor on the field and a gentle giant in the community. Former Raven Orlando Brown is being remembered.
Artists from each of Italy's 20 regions are being featured in a new exhibit at the Italian Embassy in Washington.
The Supreme Court won't hear a Maryland man's argument that the Second Amendment allows him to carry a gun outside of his home for self-defense.
Residents and visitors to the nation's capital are about to pay more for some cab rides.
Authorities at Reagan National Airport have called a bomb squad to investigate a suspicious item found on an employee shuttle bus in an employee parking lot.
A team of engineers harnessed to ropes began a daredevil inspection of the Washington Monument on Wednesday that will include them rappelling down the obelisk to look for damage from last month's earthquake.
Metro has filed a lawsuit seeking more than $13 million from its insurance company, claiming that it has failed to pay costs and extra expenses in connection with the 2009 rail crash that killed nine people.
Washington's Union Station and the Metro stop it houses have reopened after being temporarily evacuated because of an electrical fire.
Two workers have been injured at the Washington National Cathedral as they were dismantling a crane that collapsed on the grounds a day earlier.
The National Park Service is moving closer to a deal with city officials to extend the popular Capital Bikeshare program to allow bicycle sharing stations on the National Mall.
Two employees of the District Department of the Environment have been arrested and accused of accepting $20,000 in bribes.
When it comes to the nation's safest drivers, Baltimore and D.C. are at the bottom of the list.
The National Park Service says engineers sealed cracks in the Washington Monument from last week's earthquake ahead of Hurricane Irene but have discovered water inside that may indicate additional leaks.
