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A 9-YEAR-OLD boy was leaning against a car in Northwest Washington when a D.C. police officer told him to leave. The boy mouthed off to the officer. He shouldn’t have. But what followed — the clearly terrified young boy chased by police…

Throughout high school, Tarrell Talbert had to mine an array of sources to know which colleges he should apply to and what requirements he needed to meet before he could earn his high school diploma.

As she entered college nearly a decade ago, Kelly Harper had a plan.

Hoodwinking season is at full bloom in neighborhoods throughout D.C.

The bronze statue of Union Gen. Winfield Scott was greeted with ridicule as soon as it went up near the White House in 1874.

Mayor Muriel Bowser and the D.C. police department have offered their sympathies for the victims of the Chabad of Poway synagogue shooting near San Diego, along with a pledge to continue protecting religious communities in the district.

A small group of white nationalists interrupted a book talk Saturday at D.C.’s popular Politics and Prose bookstore during an event for the Antiracist Book Festival.

A group of protesters describing themselves as nationalists interrupted an author's book talk with chants of "This land is our land" at the popular Politics and Prose bookstore in Northwest Washington on Saturday.

A handful of self-proclaimed white nationalists interrupted an appearance by an author at the Politics and Prose bookstore in Northwest Washington on Saturday afternoon, chanted “This land is our land” and then exited to a chorus of loud…

As the only full-service grocery store in the community, the Safeway on MacArthur Boulevard served as a landmark for residents of the Palisades neighborhood in Northwest Washington.

A group of students at Gonzaga College High School in D.C. will soon unveil an exhibit dedicated to a painful past. It chronicles the school’s use of slaves.

The boy soiled his pants. I don’t know if that detail disturbs me more because it shows how scared the 9-year-old must have felt or because it is a reminder of how much closer he sits on his lifeline to toddlerhood than manhood.

Metro wasted millions on a new program for workers to clock in and clock out that ended up not paying or inaccurately paying many transit employees, an inspector general’s report finds.

“AS CHILDREN, we should be safe, especially in the nation’s capital right? We shouldn’t have to worry about our lives being taken right? We shouldn’t have to pray for miracles right?” That 13-year-old Aliyah Harrison even had to ask those…

A real estate agent and an FBI agent have been charged in an alleged bribery scheme using a program that protects renters in the District from being evicted when landlords sell their property, according to documents filed in federal court.…

The Local Initiatives Support Corp. has officially named Ramon Jacobson as executive director of the District office, replacing longtime affordable housing advocate Oramenta Newsome, who died last year.

Breon Austin’s death hit home. At 16 , he was close in age to two of my grandchildren. A young person’s death always hits hard.

In a strange twist, Jay Leno rode though the bike lane in front of the rally in his fancy pants car. WTF, Jay?!

Some were highs, others were lows. And WeWork is now the District’s largest private office tenant

Traffic on Pennsylvania Avenue in downtown Washington came to a halt for a few moments midday Friday as demonstrators called for safer streets in the nation’s capital, in the wake of a string of collisions that claimed the lives of three…