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  • Most Wanted: University Park burglary suspect identified

    By Scott McCabe | 06/12/13 06:25 PM

    U.S. Marshals deputies are looking for a burglary suspect who was chased away by an unsuspecting University Park homeowner. According to police, on the afternoon of May 14, the homeowner arrived at the residence on the 6500 block of 43rd Avenue and found the basement window broken, and a...

  • Second man arrested in 2011 Northeast D.C. slaying

    By Naomi Jagoda | 06/12/13 04:50 PM

    A 28-year-old man has been arrested in the 2011 strangulation and stabbing death of an Eastern Market vendor whose body was found near a creek in a Northeast D.C. park. Mark Anthony Coates, of Northeast D.C., was arrested Tuesday on charges of first-degree murder in the slaying of 56-year-old...

  • Northeast D.C. shooting leaves man dead

    By Naomi Jagoda | 06/12/13 11:45 AM

    A Southeast D.C. man has died after being shot in Northeast Washington, police said. About 9:45 p.m. Tuesday, 45-year-old Lawrence David Phillips was shot multiple times in the 400 block of 18th Street NE, which is in the Kingman Park area. He was taken to a hospital by citizens in the...

  • Harry Jaffe: Farewell to a great paper

    By Harry Jaffe | 06/11/13 07:30 PM

    Given this week's bribery plea by former city council member Michael Brown, I am saving up to pay off my bets that Mayor Vincent Gray would escape the long arm of U.S. Attorney Ron Machen. People scoffed when I said Gray would skate. Now I'm thinking they were right. More on that later. First,...

  • 86 percent of kids in closing D.C. schools haven't re-enrolled

    By Rachel Baye | 06/11/13 07:15 PM

    Only 14 percent of the students who attend closing DC Public Schools have re-enrolled in the school system for the fall, schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson said Tuesday. By comparison, roughly 40 percent of the school system's overall enrollment had submitted the paperwork to re-enroll in the...

  • Feds sharpen focus on Jeffrey Thompson

    By Alan Blinder | 06/11/13 05:45 PM

    The name "Jeffrey Thompson" has never publicly passed through the lips of U.S. Attorney Ronald Machen Jr. But in a court filing and during a rare news conference this week, Machen left little doubt that Thompson, a longtime D.C. government contractor and political donor, and others suspected...

  • D.C. superintendent resigns, cites husband's health

    By Rachel Baye | 06/11/13 01:50 PM

    D.C. State Superintendent of Education Hosanna Mahaley Jones is resigning, Mayor Vincent Gray's office announced Tuesday. Mahaley Jones, who has held the position since 2011 and will step down July 26, attributed her decision to her husband's health. "I appreciate the support that has been...

  • D.C. police cruiser involved in U Street crash

    By Naomi Jagoda | 06/11/13 10:50 AM

    A D.C. police cruiser was involved in a crash with another vehicle Tuesday morning, officials said. The accident occurred at 13th and U Streets NW. The officer driving the cruiser and the woman driving the other vehicle were both taken to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries, D.C....

  • Weather Service checking region for tornado damage

    By Naomi Jagoda | 06/11/13 09:45 AM

    National Weather Service surveyors will be looking for evidence of any tornados that may have hit the region Monday night, officials said. There were funnel-cloud sightings near Baltimore's Inner Harbor, and precursors to funnel clouds known as "wall clouds" were sighted in the Germantown area...

  • Michael Brown pleads guilty to taking $55,000 in bribes while on D.C. Council

    By Alan Blinder | 06/10/13 09:35 PM

    Former D.C. Councilman Michael Brown, once among the most influential figures in District politics and a man many believed possessed the raw political talent to ascend to the mayoralty, pleaded guilty on Monday to accepting $55,000 in bribes during an FBI sting operation. "How do you wish to...


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