Steve Contorno

Published: Sun, May 12, 2013

Police are on the lookout for a male and female in connection with a shooting on the District's southeast side early Sunday morning. Around 1:43 a.m. Sunday, D.C. police responded to reports of a shooting on the 2500 block of Pennsylvania Avenue SE. On the scene, authorities found an adult...

Scott McCabe

Published: Sun, May 12, 2013

Former congressional staffer Walter Graham was found strangled to death in his Mount Vernon-area apartment more than 20 years ago, and his killing remains a mystery. Graham's case is one of thousands of unsolved homicides in the D.C. area, and Fairfax County Police are still seeking any bit of...

Rachel Baye

Updated: Sat, May 11, 2013

Maryland student robbed at gunpoint A University of Maryland student was robbed at gunpoint in College Park early Saturday morning, Prince George's County Police report. At around 3:45 a.m., the suspect approached the male student near Baltimore Avenue and Berwyn House Road. Showing the...

Eric P. Newcomer

Published: Sat, May 11, 2013

Mayor Vincent Gray's proposed budget slashed the budget for the Commission on the Arts and the Humanities, a grant-allocating agency that supports a number of District arts projects. The proposed budget boosted large building projects in the arts to $5 million over six years. It also sets...

Alan Blinder

Published: Fri, May 10, 2013

The District government reached a $1 million settlement with a Rockville company for abusing the D.C.'s Certified Business Enterprise program. Under the rules of the CBE program, companies seeking contracts with the District government can receive additional "preference points" if they are based...

Naomi Jagoda

Published: Fri, May 10, 2013

A 3-year-old girl was shot in Southeast D.C. Thursday evening, and three males were shot in a separate incident in Northeast about a half an hour later, police said. The young girl was shot in the knee at about 6:10 p.m. while she was on a balcony in the 2400 block of Elvans Road Southeast....

Jonetta Rose Barras

Updated: Fri, May 10, 2013

The D.C.Council, through David Catania's leadership, began this week to find its education reform voice. It sent an unequivocal message to Mayor Vincent Gray, DC Public Schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson and others about the standard it expects. Further, it redirected taxpayers' money to programs...

Alan Blinder

Updated: Fri, May 10, 2013

The District government violated its own open records law more than 900 times last year when its agencies took at least 26 days to respond to requests filed under the D.C. Freedom of Information Act, a city report shows. D.C. law requires agencies to respond within 15 business days to records...

Eric P. Newcomer

Updated: Thu, May 9, 2013

Three-quarters of youth referred for mental health services in the District don't receive help within one week, as the law requires, a new study has found. Less than 50 percent of children with mental health issues are even seen within a month, according to a report by the Children's Law...

Rachel Baye

Published: Thu, May 9, 2013

A panel of D.C. lawmakers on Thursday voted to cut nearly $16 million from a proposed renovation of Malcolm X Elementary School, a move that schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson warned would be "detrimental" to the school's planned partnership with Achievement Preparatory Academy Public Charter...