Alan Blinder

Published: Tue, May 21, 2013

"My thoughts and prayers go out to the people of Oklahoma City and Moore, as well as to the residents of the District who have family members and other loved ones in the affected areas," Gray said in a statement. "The District of Columbia stands ready to help in any way we can in response to...

Jonetta Rose Barras

Updated: Tue, May 21, 2013

Oh, let's nip it right now. Tommy Wells isn't running to be the city's first white mayor. If Jack Evans or David Catania jumps in the race, as has been predicted, they won't be vying to be the District's chief executive based on the color of their skin either. When a candidate plays the race...

Alan Blinder

Published: Mon, May 20, 2013

The District didn't collect $6.5 million in tax penalties because its chief financial officer refused to enforce a D.C. law tied to electronic-filing requirements for certain businesses, the city's inspector general has found. Businesses facing a tax tab of more than $10,000 are required to...

Matt Connolly

Published: Mon, May 20, 2013

District Mayor Vincent Gray announced Monday that 16 former public school buildings would be made available for public charters and other community organizations to use.

Eric P. Newcomer

Published: Mon, May 20, 2013

Five years after coming to the District, bringing with it tens of millions of dollars for the local economy, the District's only NCAA football bowl game is headed to Annapolis.

Scott McCabe

Published: Mon, May 20, 2013

An 18-year-old D.C. man was sentenced to four years in prison for robbing a woman of her dog at gunpoint. Christopher Young approached the woman who was walking her Yorkshire Terrier in the area of 5th and Kennedy streets in Northeast Washington on the morning of Jan. 5.

Alan Blinder

Published: Mon, May 20, 2013

Although Natwar Gandhi, the District's chief financial officer, has accumulated widespread praise for his efforts to rehabilitate the city's economic image since he took office in 2000, his office has been criticized regularly for secrecy and employee misconduct. Gandhi's greatest crisis took...

Alan Blinder

Published: Mon, May 20, 2013

A D.C. Council committee will hear testimony in July about whether the District should adopt a public financing system for its local campaigns. Ward 5 Councilman Kenyan McDuffie, the chairman of the D.C. Council Committee on Government Operations, said on Monday that his panel will stage a...

Naomi Jagoda

Published: Sat, May 18, 2013

A D.C. man and woman have been sentenced for their roles in the August 2010 kidnapping and murder of an 18-year-old woman, officials said. Cinthya Proctor, 21, was sentenced in D.C. Superior Court to 21 years in prison, and Laurence Hassan, 24, was sentenced to 18 years in prison, prosecutors...

Rachel Baye

Published: Sun, May 19, 2013

A controversial computer-based learning model is competing with eight other proposals to be one of the next charter schools approved for the District. The proposed Nexus Academy of DC, run by a subsidiary of publishing giant Pearson, would offer grades 9 through 12 in Ward 2, eventually...