A building collapsed at the corner of Florida Avenue and Staples Street NE at around 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, narrowly missing two pedestrians crossing the latter street as bricks cascaded into the street.
Security camera footage captured the collapse of a two-story building in the District’s Trinidad neighborhood Wednesday, moments after two people crossed a nearby street and a firetruck returning from a call pulled up.
After a decade of steady ridership decline and service problems, including waning reliability and a fatal smoke accident in 2015, there appears to be some reason for optimism at Metro.
News Release — DC Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton
January 15, 2020
Contact: Jack Miller
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) released a letter she sent today to U.S. Coast Guard Commandant Karl Schultz raising!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->…
News Release — DC Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton
January 15, 2020
Contact: Jack Miller
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) introduced a bill today to help reduce the number of unemployed young Americans by!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->…
On National Bagel Day, buzzy bagel purveyor Call Your Mother emerged victorious from a months-long struggle over its forthcoming location in Georgetown, clearing the way for an opening by the end of the month.
It’s a scene straight off a Hollywood stunt lot: in the middle of a sunny January afternoon, a building comes down like an avalanche as pedestrians scuttle through a crosswalk.
Marcus Goodwin on Wednesday joined the crowded race for an at-large seat on the D.C. Council, the latest entrant in a wide-open competition to join an increasingly liberal body.
News Release — DC Public Service Commission
For Immediate Release: January 15, 2020
Media Contact: Kellie Didigu
WASHINGTON D.C. – The Public Service Commission of the District of Columbia (Commission) has launched its “Fight!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->…
Arrest made in row house fire: Happy Wednesday. The owner of a row house on Kennedy Street NW that burned down in August, killing two occupants, has been charged with murder. He was renting the property without a license — and the District!-->…
The owner of an illegal Brightwood rental where a fatal fire killed two people—one of whom was a nine-year-old boy—in August has been indicted on charges of murder.
News broke about a potential Georgetown location for the line-compelling DC bagel shop Call Your Mother more than six months ago, and the ensuing road to approval for the new location has been an uphill one.
In heavily Democratic D.C., the “R” label on a ballot has long been a difficult political sell. But Republican Katherine Venice, who is throwing her hat in the ring for Jack Evans’ Ward 2 seat on the D.C. Council, argues its time for “a!-->…
The owner of a crowded rooming house that burned in August in Northwest Washington, killing a man and a 9-year-old boy, has been charged with murder, D.C. Police Chief Peter Newsham said.