Rachel Baye

Updated: 1 hr ago

Washington's memorial sites are packed this weekend as veterans and their families pay their respects to those who gave their lives for their country. Many veterans visited multiple memorials, some acknowledging the risks others faced while they were spared. "I was one of the fortunate...

Rachel Baye

Published: Sat, May 25, 2013

Police identify car thief Prince George's County Police on Saturday have identified the second of two suspects in an armed carjacking earlier this week. Police believe 20-year-old Christopher DeWayne Barnes, of the 1500 block of Alabama Avenue in Southeast Washington, collaborated with...

Eric P. Newcomer

Published: Sat, May 25, 2013

D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson quietly killed a plan by Ward 2 Councilman Jack Evans meant to direct arts grant money to specific organizations, the majority of which are in his ward. In his budget, Mendelson removed a proposal by Evans that set aside several million dollars with...

Jonetta Rose Barras

Yesterday

Anyone who has followed the declining career of D.C. Chief Financial Officer Natwar Gandhi isn't surprised by the inspector general's recent report indicating his office failed to collect nearly $7 million in tax penalties from businesses who failed to file electronically. There is a trail of...

Matt Connolly

Updated: Thu, May 23, 2013

Teenage birth rates dropped in D.C. and nearly every other state from 2007 to 2011, with the country as a whole hitting a record low, according to a new study from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. There were 42.8 births per 1,000 teenagers ages 15 to 19 in the District in...

Alan Blinder

Updated: Thu, May 23, 2013

D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray, in a nod toward key segments of his political base as he weighs a re-election bid, on Thursday signed into law pay increases for about 23,000 District government employees and a significant expansion of affordable housing programs. "It delivers on a couple of promises...

Naomi Jagoda

Published: Thu, May 23, 2013

A carjacked vehicle that Prince George's County police were pursuing crashed into a school bus in Southeast D.C., police said. About 7:30 a.m. Thursday, police received a call about a carjacking in the 2200 block of Seton Way in District Heights. Two men wearing ski masks demanded the victim's...

Matt Connolly

Published: Wed, May 22, 2013

The nation's fastest-growing cities may be in the Sun Belt, but the District and nearby Alexandria and Gaithersburg are gaining residents at a blistering pace, according to census data released Thursday. D.C.'s population grew by 5.1 percent to 632,323 from 2010 to 2012, according to the...

Kytja Weir

Published: Wed, May 22, 2013

Capital Bikeshare is saving cash and time for its riders, making them healthier while also taking cars off the roads and spurring economic development, according to two new surveys of riders. But the service appears to be having an unintended result of shifting some riders away from walking or...

Scott McCabe

Published: Wed, May 22, 2013

U.S. Marshals are looking for a fugitive with a violent history who has disappeared after they say he violated his parole on a robbery charge. Kinshasa Reddock, 28, was serving out a sentence for beating up and robbing a customer outside a Chinese restaurantin the 1900 block of Third Street in...