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The March 11 Metro article “Pain of segregation renewed at Wilson High” discussed the name controversy at the District’s Woodrow Wilson High School. I graduated from Wilson in 1962, when there was but one African American student in our…

On a 30-degree day in early March, the basement of New York Avenue Presbyterian Church, just blocks from the White House, was teeming with activity.

Ever sit behind a driver that’s oblivious that a light has changed from red to green?

It wasn’t the first time the 45-year-old woman’s husband had verbally abused her. But last September, he “spiraled out of control,” she said. In front of their children in their Northeast D.C. living room, he threatened to stab her to…

A D.C. Department of Human Services employee is accused of accepting sexual favors and nearly $400,000 in cash in exchange for doling out welfare benefits valued at more than $1.4 million, according to court documents.

A D.C. government employee is facing federal charges for allegedly issuing more than $1.45 million in food stamps and welfare benefits to people in exchange for sexual favors and $380,000, court documents say.

District emergency officials are issuing a new warning about dangerous batches of suspected K2 hitting city streets, saying medics responded to dozens of overdose reports this week.

We spoke with the local author about how he got into writing, his work, and creating children's literature any age group can enjoy.

A D.C. man who was brutally attacked more than six years ago while walking home from a Nationals game is working and living in D.C. again while coping with the challenges of living with a traumatic brain injury.

D.C. contains almost 7,000 acres of land controlled by the National Park Service, and up until now, the federal agency was charged with maintaining all of it, including the majority of the city’s neighborhood parks.

“This is not exactly a cutting-edge idea,” says Councilmember Charles Allen.

Embattled D.C. Council member Jack Evans (D-Ward 2) is facing a federal investigation into allegations of influence peddling, a likely reprimand from his colleagues, and calls for him to step down from the Council’s powerful finance…

A public meeting on the project is scheduled for March 14

Bus riders in Washington can use an app that estimates how long until the next bus arrives at any given stop. Its implementation has made commuting much more convenient for myself and thousands of other regular bus commuters.

Restaurateur Andy Shallal debuts the seventh location of his socially conscious cafe.

A decade after leaving his parents’ home in Nicaragua for good, 22-year-old Alexander Flores Olivas is seeking asylum in the District.

Administrator says she is not aware of Trump intervening for his own financial interests, as Democrats allege.

Last month, an eight-pound piece of concrete fell from the ceiling of the J. Edgar Hoover Building, damaging a light fixture and an FBI employee's desk that he was lucky to not be occupying at the time.

A team of George Washington University students and professors has won a $25,000 award from the District to continue developing an app that would provide D.C. drivers with real-time information on traffic congestion and crashes.

Deeniquia “Dee Dee” Dodds was 22 when she died at the hospital a week after being shot in Northeast D.C. Last week, after two years, a jury failed to reach a verdict in the case of two men charged in connection with her death. A Superior…