Liz Essley

Published: Mon, May 6, 2013

Metro's latest crime statistics contained good news for those who park their cars in Metro's garages. Crime in Metro's parking facilities hit a record low in the first three months of 2013, down 79 percent since 2010, with thieves stealing 64 percent fewer cars, 76 percent fewer objects inside...

Liz Essley

Published: Mon, May 6, 2013

Metro's ongoing $5.5 billion rebuilding effort will close four stations on the Orange Line this weekend, as well as force trains to share a single tracks on the Red, Blue and Yellow lines, starting at 10 p.m. Friday. Here's where riders can expect delays this weekend: • On the Orange Line,...

Eric P. Newcomer

Published: Sun, May 5, 2013

A 15-year-old boy was stabbed as a Metro car traveled from Navy Yard to Waterfront along the Green Line. He sustained a non-life threatening wound to his leg and was taken to the hospital. The teen exited at Waterfront Station after the incident occurred. Both transit police and Metropolitan...

Eric P. Newcomer

Published: Sun, May 5, 2013

After a 73-year-old woman fell into Metro tracks at Dupont Circle, several onlookers rushed to help her, according to a Metro spokesman. She fell at about 2:20 p.m. Saturday. She suffered non-life threatening injuries and was taken to the hospital. The woman, who was not identified by the...

Liz Essley

Published: Sun, May 5, 2013

D.C.'s downtown L Street bike lane will get a twin this summer: a bike lane on M Street headed the opposite direction. D.C. officials plan to install the lane in August, eliminating 40 to 80 parking spaces to do so. The lane will look similar to the eastbound L Street bike lane installed in...

Naomi Jagoda

Published: Sun, May 5, 2013

A Tanzanian man who was caught with about seven pounds of heroin in his suitcase at Washington Dulles International Airport has been sentenced to four years in prison, according to court records. Omar Mohammad Omar, 40, pleaded guilty to importing heroin in February and was sentenced recently...

Liz Essley

Published: Sun, May 5, 2013

An effort to thin out crowds on Virginia Railway Express trains is working. VRE riders bought about 8,700 "step-up" tickets in March so they could ditch crowded VRE trains and take roomier Amtrak trains instead -- a 37 percent increase over March 2012 -- a report from the railway's CEO Doug...

Kate Jacobson

Published: Sat, May 4, 2013

Two people are dead and one is in the hospital after four motorcycles crashed into one another on I-70 near Hagerstown, shutting down the road for four-and-a-half hours on Saturday afternoon. Police said a group of motorcycles were traveling eastbound near Indian Springs when one driver slowed...

Eric P. Newcomer

Updated: Fri, May 3, 2013

When Mayor Vincent Gray showed off one of the District's streetcars in Anacostia last week, he pointed to, once again, what he says is a success story: streetcars in Portland, Ore. Before he became D.C.'s mayor, Gray visited Portland twice -- and both times was impressed by their expansive...

Naomi Jagoda

Published: Thu, May 2, 2013

Twenty raw chickens were seized from a Vietnamese man at Washington Dulles International Airport last week, officials said. The man arrived at Dulles from Vietnam on April 22 with the chickens in a cooler that the man claimed as baggage. The small birds were intact, defeathered and had skin...