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They are already activists, nonprofit leaders and world travelers. They have collected acceptance letters to prestigious universities, signed commitment letters to start jobs in the coming weeks and enrolled in academies to become police…

Metro Transit Police said they have opened up an investigation after an officer used a Taser on an unarmed man who was allegedly interfering with a police investigation on the U Street Metro station in Northwest, D.C. Saturday evening.

If the Supreme Court could change its mind on same-sex marriage, then it can do the same for voting rights in the District of Columbia. At least that’s the hope of activists who, two decades after the last major legal fight ended with the…

Nine families bound by tragedy gathered in a corner of Northeast D.C., not far from where Metro’s deadliest crash occurred ten years ago.

More than 300 people turned out in Dupont Circle Friday night for a vigil organized by LGBT activists in response to five separate incidents of violence against LGBT people in the D.C. area since June 13, including the murder of a…

During one of the episodes underpinning the scandal that enveloped D.C. Council member Jack Evans over the past week, he wrote in an email: “To me, where there’s smoke, there’s often fire.”

In recent days there have been widely reported dual chirpings of two separate coalmine canaries in D.C. The question is whether local elected officials will listen to these warnings or ignore both to the city’s economic detriment.

On the 10th anniversary of the deadliest rail crash in Metro history, family members of the victims, transit officials and politicians gathered Saturday to recall the events of June 22, 2009, when a Red Line train slammed into a stopped…

June 22, 2009: It was rush hour on another steamy summer day in the D.C. area. A Metrorail train full of commuters was traveling between the Takoma Park and Fort Totten stations on the Red Line.

WASHINGTON (ABC7) — For D.C. residents living in Ward 8, healthy produce can be hard to come across with only a few grocery stores in the area. One local nonprofit is working to change that on an urban farm in Southeast.

In the wake of recent violence against the LGBTQ community in the D.C. area, including the killing of two transgender women, supporters gathered in Dupont Circle Friday night for a vigil.

The D.C. police said Friday on Twitter that the department will not enforce civil immigration laws, a statement that appeared to suggest opposition, at least in principle, to federal plans to begin rounding up migrant families that have…

On summer evenings in his early 20s, worried by the challenges of adulthood, Christian Hamaker would slip outside, pop a cigar in his mouth and switch on his Walkman radio.

Immigration advocates are expecting the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency to carry out mass raids and arrests at migrants’ homes this weekend. And though the ICE raids haven’t been confirmed, advocates say there’s good…

The United States National Arboretum is one of the most impressive public spaces in Washington, DC. But for Carver-Langston resident Juanita Diggs, who first moved to the neighborhood in 1959, the breathtaking 446 acres are basically the…

Saturday marks the 10-year anniversary of the deadliest crash in Metro history.

On Saturday, D.C. transportation officials and advocates are hosting a high-crash site visit in Ward 8, the city’s southernmost ward and the one that has seen the most traffic fatalities so far this year—half a dozen in all. The visit is…

What a week for Jack Evans. After the release of a report outlining a slew of ethical violations and conflicts of interest while serving as the chairman of the Metro Board of Directors, Evans stepped down from the board on Thursday…

Within hours of the FBI's raid Friday morning on D.C. Council member Jack Evans’ Georgetown home, a few of his colleagues have begun calling for his removal as head of the finance and revenue committee, an effort now led by Chairman Phil…

Owner Sunyatta Amen expands her health-minded Shaw tea house.