The District
1 day 4 hours ago
Parking spots are hard to come by in the District, and even harder when a less-than-able driver takes up more space than their vehicle is due. Yet for most residents, commuters and shoppers, the ability to parallel park along busy side streets is a necessary skill.
Recent D.C. News
22 hours 37 min ago
The District began an initiative Thursday to clamp down on the 20 percent of District students who are "chronically truant," skipping class at least 15 times each year.
22 hours 45 min ago
The private sector has pledged about $50,000 to offset the cost of Saturday's One City Summit, but taxpayers could still be on the hook for more than half-a-million dollars, Mayor Vincent Gray's office acknowledged Thursday.
23 hours 33 min ago
It started with a podcast -- an episode of the radio program "This American Life" played on a MacBook, streamed through an Apple AirPort and broadcast into Mark Shields' kitchen in Columbia Heights.
1 day 7 min ago
A federal judge will now decide whether the man who shot President Reagan in an assassination attempt at a Washington hotel should be allowed to spend longer periods of time away from the District's psychiatric hospital.
1 day 23 hours ago
The Maryland Court of Special Appeals has ruled that two men charged with violent crimes but found incompetent to stand trial cannot be reindicted in those cases years later unless the state "has a good faith belief" the men have become competent.
2 days 7 min ago
D.C. Attorney General Irvin Nathan said Wednesday that prosecutors are unlikely to pursue current or former District employees who collected less than $20,000 in unemployment benefits while on the city's payroll, meaning most of the 130 workers under investigation will probably avoid criminal sanctions.
2 days 21 hours ago
Occupy DC will join several major labor unions to protest the Conservative Political Action Conference this weekend, hoping to divert attention from appearances by Republican presidential can
2 days 23 hours ago
The search for a missing teenage girl has stretched from Maryland to the U.S.-Mexico border.
2 days 23 hours ago
Man arrested in 2007 gang-related assault
A man was arrested in western Loudoun County in connection with a 2007 gang assault, authorities said.
