Matt Connolly

Updated: Wed, May 1, 2013

More than half of new D.C. mothers are unmarried, more than any state in the nation, according to census data released Wednesday. Nearly 51 percent of women in the District between the ages of 15 and 50 who gave birth in the past year did so without being married, just beating out Louisiana at...

Alan Blinder

Updated: Wed, May 1, 2013

In a move that his administration is already declaring "trailblazing," D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray will propose on Thursday allowing illegal immigrants to obtain driver's licenses and identification cards. "If the mayor's bill becomes law, all eligible residents -- documented or not -- will have...

Eric P. Newcomer

Updated: Wed, May 1, 2013

Mayor Vincent Gray on Wednesday gave the public its first peek at the District's 157-passenger streetcar, scheduled to be in service by the end of the year, but said he doesn't know how much the 37-mile project will end up costing D.C. taxpayers. "I don't think we can, with precision, say how...

Naomi Jagoda

Published: Wed, May 1, 2013

A Fort Washington man was convicted in the beating and robbery of a young Capitol Hill father, officials said. Tommy Branch was found guilty Wednesday in D.C. Superior Court of the attack on Thomas "TC" Maslin. In August 2012, Maslin was assaulted and robbed after he attended a Washington...

Naomi Jagoda

Published: Wed, May 1, 2013

The man at the center of a U.S. Supreme Court decision about GPS tracking pleaded guilty to a drug-conspiracy charge Wednesday and was sentenced to a 15-year prison term. The resolution to Antoine Jones' case comes after he was tried three times in D.C. federal court. Jones has been behind...

Liz Essley

Updated: Wed, May 1, 2013

The District's cabs all will be painted red with a wide, swooping gray stripe, pending regulators' final approval. The DC Taxicab Commission unveiled the new color scheme Wednesday, adding a gray stripe to the all-red design recommended by an earlier commission panel. The design is meant to...

Alan Blinder

Published: Wed, May 1, 2013

President Obama has signed into a law a plan that would allow the District to have an interim chief financial officer, the White House said on Wednesday. The measure that Obama approved allows the D.C. mayor to name an interim fiscal steward if a CFO dies, resigns or is incapacitated. The...

Eric P. Newcomer

Updated: Wed, May 1, 2013

The vacant Walter Reed Army Medical Center may move one step closer to become a budding Ward 4 neighborhood with homes, stores, businesses and schools when the D.C. Council votes on the site's strategic plan Tuesday. The Small Area Plan gives the mayor's office the power to decide how a...

Naomi Jagoda

Published: Wed, May 1, 2013

Two men were shot, one fatally, in Northeast D.C. near Gallaudet University, police said. The shootings are being investigated as one case. However, the men were found a block apart and police have released descriptions of different suspects for each of the victims, D.C. police spokeswoman...

Eric P. Newcomer

Updated: Tue, Apr 30, 2013

An at-large D.C. Council member wants the Washington Redskins to change their name -- maybe to the Washington Redtails. "We have to change it, and I'm calling on Dan Snyder and the NFL to step up and do the right thing," said Councilman David Grosso. "I just don't want it to be the racist,...