Eric P. Newcomer

Updated: Wed, May 8, 2013

Remember that creepy feeling when you feel something land on the back of your neck? About a decade ago, millions of cicadas swarmed the D.C. metro area -- terrifying some people, pestering others and soiling at least a few pairs of shoes as cicadas crunched underfoot, turning into a...

Matt Connolly

Updated: Wed, May 8, 2013

Washington-area blacks and whites voted at about the same rate in 2012, while nationally African-Americans voted at a higher rate than whites for the first time since the U.S. Census began tracking voting by race in 1996, according to data released Wednesday. About 67.2 percent of eligible...

Alan Blinder

Published: Wed, May 8, 2013

Seeking an aggressive expansion of the District's Circulator bus system, a D.C. councilwoman on Wednesday proposed significant fare hikes that could double the cost of traveling along the five lines that crisscross Washington. The recommendations from Ward 3 Councilwoman Mary Cheh, who chairs...

Naomi Jagoda

Published: Wed, May 8, 2013

Baltimore cop charged with murder An off-duty Baltimore police officer who authorities said fatally shot his girlfriend and then was in a hours-long standoff with his police colleagues has been charged with first-degree murder. James Smith, a 20-year police veteran, shot Kendra Diggs on...

Brian Hughes

Published: Wed, May 8, 2013

Wilson is founder of MtoM Consulting, a D.C.-based marketing firm focused on promoting businesses to moms. Why focus purely on moms? They account for more than $2 trillion a year in spending in the U.S. -- it's a very powerful market. My two little boys taught me about the incredible...

Naomi Jagoda

Published: Wed, May 8, 2013

A 17-year-old District boy was arrested after he drove a stolen car and fled from police in Vienna, police said. About 5 p.m. Tuesday., D.C. police asked Virginia State Police to help them find the boy, who was driving a Chrysler Cirrus that had been reported stolen out of Roanoke. A state...

Naomi Jagoda

Published: Wed, May 8, 2013

The D.C. police officer who was struck in a hit-and-run in March and then waited more than 15 minutes for an ambulance left the hospital on Tuesday, NBC Washington reported. Sean Hickman was on-duty when he was injured on March 5, and he had multiple surgeries. He was taken to a hospital by an...

Matt Connolly

Published: Tue, May 7, 2013

The District set a new tourism record last year with more than 18.9 million visitors, an increase of 5.5 percent from 2011, according to statistics released Tuesday by the city tourism bureau. Travel to D.C. contributed $4.8 billion to the local economy in 2012, a 3.1 percent increase from the...

Matt Connolly

Published: Tue, May 7, 2013

Visitors to D.C. in the past few months have arrived to find fewer open attractions than they were expecting due to both politics and sheer force of nature. The Washington Monument was closed to visitors in 2011 after the Virginia earthquake caused structural damage. The iconic obelisk, now...

Harry Jaffe

Published: Tue, May 7, 2013

How to interpret news that D.C. businessman and political kingmaker Jeff Thompson has been able to keep federal investigators from digging into documents that might expose a trail of corruption all the way to Mayor Vince Gray? We learned this week that prosecutors have accused Thompson of...