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By MATT CONNOLLY | 06/13/13 08:15 PM
The Washington Examiner ended local news coverage Friday, leaving behind an eight-year legacy of public service and watchdog journalism.
Readers will remember the print edition for its aggressive coverage of crime and...
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By KYTJA WEIR | 06/13/13 07:15 PM
Metro train operators ran red signals on the system's rails five times in the past three months, an unusual spate of the incidents, Metro officials said Thursday.
No crashes occurred and no one was hurt in the...
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By LIZ ESSLEY | 06/13/13 06:40 PM
Two tornadoes were reported in Montgomery County, and tens of thousands of area residents lost power. But for much of the Washington region, Thursday's storm -- and the frenzy leading up to it -- turned out to be nothing...
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By ERIC P. NEWCOMER | 06/13/13 06:10 PM
A court-ordered report shows that the District fails to properly serve some of its developmentally disabled residents.
For more than three decades, the city has failed to fully comply with a court ruling that found that...
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By NAOMI JAGODA | 06/13/13 05:30 PM
Prosecutors are recommending that the ringleader in the stabbing of a gay teenage boy near the Howard Theatre last year be sentenced to about 11 years behind bars, court papers show.
Ali Jackson, 20, pleaded guilty...
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By NAOMI JAGODA | 06/13/13 05:15 PM
A 24-year-old woman accused of stealing a kitten from the Washington Humane Society pleaded not guilty in D.C. Superior Court on Thursday, court records show.
Porsha Nicole Evans, of Southeast D.C., has been charged...
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By ALAN BLINDER | 06/13/13 05:00 PM
A business associate of Jeffrey Thompson, the city contractor and political donor who is the subject of a sprawling corruption investigation, has been charged with breaking federal campaign finance laws.
In a court...
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By ALAN BLINDER | 06/13/13 04:35 PM
Two more employees of the District's chief financial officer have been implicated in a long-running probe into misconduct tied to the fraudulent use of disabled parking permits.
D.C. Inspector General Charles...
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By LISA RUHL | 06/13/13 04:21 PM
DC Central Kitchen has been training people in restaurant job skills for years. For some, it's more than just learning about food service.
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By MATT CONNOLLY | 06/13/13 01:50 AM
The Washington region is gaining minorities at an even faster rate than the rapidly diversifying nation, according to census data releasedThursday, with Asian immigrants and Hispanic families leading the way.
The...
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By ERIC P. NEWCOMER | 06/12/13 09:00 PM
The movement to derail the Frank Gehry design plan for the Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial took a big step forward Wednesday, when a House subcommittee approved a bill that would begin a new selection process for the...
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By SCOTT MCCABE | 06/12/13 06:25 PM
U.S. Marshals deputies are looking for a burglary suspect who was chased away by an unsuspecting University Park homeowner.
According to police, on the afternoon of May 14, the homeowner arrived at the residence on the...
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By NAOMI JAGODA | 06/12/13 04:50 PM
A 28-year-old man has been arrested in the 2011 strangulation and stabbing death of an Eastern Market vendor whose body was found near a creek in a Northeast D.C. park.
Mark Anthony Coates, of Northeast D.C., was...
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By TIMOTHY P. CARNEY | 06/12/13 04:30 PM
The Federal Trade Commission weighed in D.C.’s proposed taxi rules — not flexing the feds’ authority over the District, but simply as an informed commenter on the proposed rules.
Praising the rules that allow for...
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By NAOMI JAGODA | 06/12/13 04:10 PM
Meek-Bradley is the executive chef of Ripple, located in Cleveland Park. She recently won Best in Show and Best Shank Dish at the 2013 DC Lamb Jam and will go on to compete in the Lamb Jam Finale in New York this fall....
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By NAOMI JAGODA | 06/12/13 11:45 AM
A Southeast D.C. man has died after being shot in Northeast Washington, police said.
About 9:45 p.m. Tuesday, 45-year-old Lawrence David Phillips was shot multiple times in the 400 block of 18th Street NE, which is in...
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By HARRY JAFFE | 06/11/13 07:30 PM
Given this week's bribery plea by former city council member Michael Brown, I am saving up to pay off my bets that Mayor Vincent Gray would escape the long arm of U.S. Attorney Ron Machen. People scoffed when I said Gray...
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By RACHEL BAYE | 06/11/13 07:15 PM
Only 14 percent of the students who attend closing DC Public Schools have re-enrolled in the school system for the fall, schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson said Tuesday.
By comparison, roughly 40 percent of the school...
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By ALAN BLINDER | 06/11/13 05:45 PM
The name "Jeffrey Thompson" has never publicly passed through the lips of U.S. Attorney Ronald Machen Jr.
But in a court filing and during a rare news conference this week, Machen left little doubt that Thompson, a...
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By RACHEL BAYE | 06/11/13 01:50 PM
D.C. State Superintendent of Education Hosanna Mahaley Jones is resigning, Mayor Vincent Gray's office announced Tuesday.
Mahaley Jones, who has held the position since 2011 and will step down July 26, attributed her...
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By LISA RUHL | 06/11/13 10:54 AM
Press conference: Michael Brown pleads guilty
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By NAOMI JAGODA | 06/11/13 10:50 AM
A D.C. police cruiser was involved in a crash with another vehicle Tuesday morning, officials said.
The accident occurred at 13th and U Streets NW. The officer driving the cruiser and the woman driving the other vehicle...
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By NAOMI JAGODA | 06/11/13 09:45 AM
National Weather Service surveyors will be looking for evidence of any tornados that may have hit the region Monday night, officials said.
There were funnel-cloud sightings near Baltimore's Inner Harbor, and precursors...
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By ALAN BLINDER | 06/10/13 09:35 PM
Former D.C. Councilman Michael Brown, once among the most influential figures in District politics and a man many believed possessed the raw political talent to ascend to the mayoralty, pleaded guilty on Monday to...
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By ERIC P. NEWCOMER | 06/10/13 06:20 PM
Their more well-to-do peers may spend the summer at a sleep-away camp, but thousands of District children face another reality: work, in the form of the Summer Youth Employment Program.
Ward 8 Councilman Marion Barry,...
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By ERIC P. NEWCOMER | 06/10/13 06:20 PM
When District officials scrambled to put in place health insurance exchanges mandated by President Obama's Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, they faced a number of potential pitfalls -- including the possibility...
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By ALICIA M. COHN | 06/10/13 05:45 PM
Filmmaker James Cameron will demonstrate his other hobby -- deep sea exploring -- in the District this week.
Cameron's Deepsea America tour is making a stop in D.C. on its way to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution...
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By NIKKI SCHWAB | 06/10/13 05:30 PM
Fans of "The Notebook" will be elated to hear that author Nicholas Sparks is due in D.C. in September. The best-selling author will be promoting his newest novel, "The Longest Ride," at the Sixth & I Historic...
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By NAOMI JAGODA | 06/09/13 10:20 PM
A former temporary employee at the Cesar Chavez Public Charter Schools for Public Policy in D.C. is expected to plead guilty to stealing more than $75,000 from the place where she once worked.
Darlene Ford, of Suitland,...
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By ALAN BLINDER | 06/09/13 09:00 PM
The D.C. Council believed it had found its groove again.
Publicly and privately, legislators said the Wilson Building, once rife with speculation about looming indictments and the threat of raids, appeared to have...
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By NAOMI JAGODA | 06/09/13 07:00 PM
Months after a Shih Tzu named Coco was stabbed multiple times in Southeast D.C., the dog is doing well with a new family.
Coco was stabbed with a kitchen knife on Sept. 21 on the 4300 block of Hillside Road in a case of...
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By SCOTT MCCABE | 06/09/13 06:45 PM
Christine Mirzayan had a promising future as a biochemist before she was bludgeoned to death in Georgetown, thelast known victim of a man known as the Potomac River Rapist.
The daughter of Iranian immigrants, Mirzayan...
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By NIKKI SCHWAB | 06/09/13 06:40 PM
It was 10 whole years ago that Lauren Weisberger became a breakout book author thanks to her first novel, "The Devil Wears Prada," a tome that may or may not be about Weisberger's time working for Anna Wintour at Vogue....
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By KYTJA WEIR | 06/09/13 05:55 PM
Capital Bikeshare is doing more than moving people around on red bikes. It's also helping sell houses and apartments and draw people to businesses.
The bike-sharing system, which has more than 175 docking stations...
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By RACHEL BAYE | 06/09/13 05:25 PM
Low-income students in Maryland made more academic progress over an eight-year period than in any other state in the country, according to a new report.
Fourth- and eighth-grade students in Maryland eligible for free...
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By EXAMINER EDITORIAL | 06/09/13 04:10 PM
Exactly how far does the federal government's power to regulate publicly funded construction projects go? According to the Labor Department, it goes all the way to privately funded construction projects. The feds and the...
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By ANDY BROWNFIELD | 06/09/13 12:55 PM
Mayor Vincent Gray and District officials announced Sunday that Frager's Hardware Store is opening a temporary pop-up location after the Capitol Hill institution was destroyed in a fire last week.
Officials and Frager's...
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By ALAN BLINDER | 06/07/13 03:35 PM
Federal prosecutors on Friday charged former D.C. Councilman Michael Brown with one count of bribery, ending months of silence about long-running probes of corruption in District politics and triggering speculation about...
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By RACHEL BAYE | 06/07/13 11:54 AM
Violent crime has jumped 33 percent at the District's public elementary schools this school year, while the amount of those crimes occurring at middle and high schools fell.
Public elementary schools saw 57 incidents of...
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By NAOMI JAGODA | 06/07/13 11:20 AM
A juvenile has been taken into custody after a carjacking at a Georgetown gas station, and police said that they are looking for two others involved in the crime.
About 1:10 a.m. Friday, a Virginia woman was at the...
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By ALAN BLINDER | 06/06/13 11:50 PM
Former D.C. Councilman Michael Brown, whose engaging style and roots in one of Washington's most powerful political families propelled him to the highest levels of municipal government, will plead guilty to a federal...
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By ERIC P. NEWCOMER | 06/06/13 08:30 PM
Drivers with valid D.C. licenses could one day find themselves turned away at the airport ticket counter or security lines while the city's Department of Motor Vehicles simultaneously faces a bureaucratic nightmare, if...
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By ERIC P. NEWCOMER | 06/06/13 08:30 PM
The District's program to help guide construction and other city contracts to local business owners has been an easy target for abuse since the city has, until recently, had a single enforcement agent to monitor...
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By SCOTT MCCABE, NAOMI JAGODA | 06/06/13 06:20 PM
Fire officials investigate
cause of Frager's blaze
Two firefighters injured in the four-alarm fire that destroyed Frager's Hardware on Capitol Hill have been released.
D.C. Assistant Fire Chief Brian Lee said the...
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By NIKKI SCHWAB | 06/06/13 06:10 PM
Superheroes is the theme of this year's Capital Pride celebration, which means throngs of costume-clad attendees are expected at Saturday's Capital Pride Parade, which winds through parts of Dupont Circle, Logan Circle...
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By KYTJA WEIR | 06/06/13 05:30 PM
Metro has had 5 percent of its 588 escalators out of service this week. But what does that mean for riders?
A reader pointed out that the likelihood of a rider encountering a downed escalator each day is much higher...
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By NAOMI JAGODA | 06/06/13 04:10 PM
Wednesday night's fire at Frager's Hardware has saddened Capitol Hill residents who frequented the neighborhood business. One year ago, the area was rocked by another business-related tragedy when an H Street Northeast...
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By NAOMI JAGODA | 06/06/13 01:25 PM
Two men were killed in separate shootings during a violent night in the District, officials said.
One of the men -- 26-year-old Andre Wilson, of Northwest D.C. -- died after a double-shooting in the Sursum Corda area....
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By SCOTT MCCABE | 06/06/13 12:30 PM
Diners at a Logan Circle restaurant were robbed at gunpoint, and police are asking the public to help identify the suspect.
It happened around 9:30 p.m. May 17, while the couple was seated on the veranda of the...
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By RACHEL BAYE | 06/06/13 01:20 AM
Fairfax County Public Schools beat out local rival Montgomery County for the highest graduation rate among the country's 50 largest school districts, according to a report released Thursday.
After four consecutive years...
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