April 2021

Four D.C. police officers faced suspensions of their law enforcement powers after the drivers of two marked patrol cars crashed while apparently racing each other along a street in Northeast Washington, according to a department spokesman.…

DC music owned the Oscars.

Four officers with the Metropolitan Police Department are under investigation and being placed on non-contact status after the department says they "may have been racing the vehicles, resulting in an accident."

Glenn Close didn’t take home the Oscar for best supporting actress last night, but the 74-year-old Hollywood legend ended up stealing the show — and upending 2021 bingo cards across the region — when she danced to D.C. go-go band E.U.’s…

It’s a story that reflects our country’s painful past.

A Northeast D.C. neighborhood is dealing with significant postal service delays, with some residents saying more than a month has gone by since they’ve gotten important mail like medications and stimulus checks.

When the National Portrait Gallery reopens May 14, visitors will have the first opportunity to see a President Donald Trump portrait in the popular America’s Presidents exhibition.

The 93rd Academy Awards ceremony was starting to get a little speech-heavy Sunday when Questlove announced he and comedian Lil Rel Howery were going to play a trivia game with the evening’s nominees. “Quest is going to play a song from a…

The premise for an interlude at the Oscars was simple: Questlove played a song and a chosen celebrity had to guess if the tune was ever nominated for or won an Oscar.

Close to a dozen different artists displayed their work in shops throughout the neighborhood

I grew up on some of the meanest streets of D.C., the child of a man who rotated through prison and abandoned me and my mother. The few visits I had with him taught me the wrong kind of lessons. When my mother sent me to him for a…

Part of D.C.’s Attorney General Karl Racine yearlong initiative called The People v. Hate: Standing Up for Humanity, a recent chat discussed community awareness of hate and extremism.

On March 12, 1927, a crowd of several hundred spectators gathered outside a new 10-story building at 1320 New York Ave. NW. They were there to watch an automobile race — not around the building, but up it. This was possible because the…

Jessica Amaya Torres knew she needed to write an essay for her high school English class, but she was finding it hard to concentrate on homework.