August 2020

Through his work as executive director of Serve Your City, a D.C.-based nonprofit focused on local at-risk youth, Maurice Cook has seen students face huge educational barriers both before and after the COVID-19 crisis began.

Anyone who has spent more than a passing moment inside a local bookstore knows each one carries a distinct personality.

Fabian Tinsley's family learned of his death by reading about it online, 110 days after he had passed away while serving a 23-year prison sentence.

A recently passed police reform bill in D.C. has already sparked a lawsuit by a police union in the District. Now, an official with the Fraternal Order of Police in Montgomery County, Maryland, said his union is considering possible legal…

At least 570 people have been shot in the District this year, a spike of 45 percent over the same period last year that is driving up homicides and frustrating residents and leaders alike.

The D.C. police union filed a lawsuit Monday seeking to stop the District’s decision to make public the names of officers who use deadly or serious force and their body camera footage within five days of an incident.

Doughnuts are returning to DCUSA.

When Chioma Iwuoha, a Ward 7 community organizer and leader, saw a large gathering amassing on her block in the Greenway neighborhood on Saturday, she knew how she could help.

After last month’s spikes in coronavirus cases numbers around the region, some metrics are ticking downward.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Police in the District of Columbia are calling for community input to catch the perpetrators of a mass shooting at a crowded block party over the weekend that left one person dead and 20 others, including a police…

In normal times, it’s a place you can watch basketball, hockey, monster trucks, Disney on Ice, Celine Dion, or Tool. But now the Capital One Arena will have a new purpose: polling place.

The DC Police Union is seeking an injunction that would block Mayor Muriel Bowser from publicly releasing the body-camera footage and names of police officers who have “committed an officer-involved death” in the nearly six years since the…

A new academic study of a D.C. coronavirus testing site showed children who were economically disadvantaged or members of a racial minority group were more likely to become infected early in the pandemic.

These scenes in the nation’s capital should be triumphant.

There were at least four shooters and more than 100 rounds fired in Sunday’s deadly Southeast D.C. shooting, police Chief Peter Newsham said Monday.

D.C. has added five states to its list of “high-risk states” and removed three, bringing the total number of states with travel restrictions to 29. Alaska, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, and Minnesota were added to the existing list, and…

The Park View coffee shop and bar once known as Colony Club is back with a new name. The establishment, which has been closed since the coronavirus pandemic hit D.C. in March, reopened over the weekend as Doubles.

D.C. updated its list of high-risk coronavirus states Monday, removing Delaware — whose beaches are a top destination for summer vacationers from the Washington area.