Matt Connolly

Published: Tue, May 21, 2013

D.C. ranks second in country behind New York state D.C. public schools spent $18,475 per student in fiscal 2011, more than any state outside of New York, according to census data released Tuesday. Among the country's 100 public school systems with the most students, Montgomery and Prince...

Liz Essley

Published: Tue, May 21, 2013

Virginia is moving toward putting express lanes -- or possibly rail -- along traffic-clogged Interstate 66. The commonwealth next month plans to issue a request for ideas from companies on how to install tolled express lanes, bus or rail along the highway, from the Capital Beltway to...

Naomi Jagoda

Published: Tue, May 21, 2013

An Alexandria grand jury has indicted a man in the shooting of a police officer and a woman in the slaying of a 94-year-old man, officials said. Kashif Bashir, 27, was indicted for shooting Alexandria Police Officer Peter Laboy during a Feb. 27 traffic stop. Bashir is charged with attempted...

Liz Essley

Published: Mon, May 20, 2013

A Virginia judge's ruling threatens to jeopardize the way Virginia is using private companies to run the Beltway Express Lanes and build similar lanes on Interstate 95. Portsmouth Circuit Court Judge James A. Cales said in an oral ruling earlier this month that he thought Virginia's tolls on...

Brian Hughes

Published: Mon, May 20, 2013

Tony Howard is president and CEO of the Loudoun County Chamber of Commerce.

Naomi Jagoda

Published: Sun, May 19, 2013

Man dies after Northeast D.C. shooting A 21-year-old man who was shot early Saturday morning in Eckington area has died, police said. About 3:20 a.m. Saturday, police went to the unit block of S Street NE and found Dontel Price, of Northeast D.C., suffering from gunshot wounds. Price was...

Steve Contorno

Published: Sun, May 19, 2013

Nash is an associate professor of photography at Lesley University's Art Institute of Boston and director of "16 Photographs at Ohrdruf," a documentary about the first Nazi concentration camp liberated by U.S. troops. The film won the Founder's Choice Award at last weekend's GI Film Festival in...

Naomi Jagoda

Published: Sun, May 19, 2013

Prince William County police are looking for a man who drove his vehicle at police. Christopher Blakeney, 29, is wanted for charges including attempted malicious wounding of a law enforcement officer and attempted assault and battery of a law enforcement officer. On Friday morning, Prince...

Scott McCabe

Published: Sun, May 19, 2013

The disappearance of a Johns Hopkins University graduate student once gripped the region and became known as the "Route 29 Stalker" investigation, but 17 years later her case remains unsolved. On March 2, 1996, the 25-year-old Alicia Showalter Reynolds was driving along Route 29 to...

Liz Essley

Published: Sun, May 19, 2013

The Pentagon City Metro station is slated to get two new entrances in the next two years. Arlington County is working to build a new $5 million elevator to take riders from the street to the underground station, as well as refurbish a pedestrian tunnel built decades ago but never used. The...