Washington Post: Hate crime reports have soared in D.C. Prosecutions have plummeted.
Ashly Taylor was shot for being a lesbian. Then she watched as the hatred that fueled the attack was ignored in court.
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Curbed: Bei Bei the giant panda celebrates his last National Zoo birthday Thursday
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He’s turning four but will relocate to China in the coming months
Theresa Vargas in The Post: Homeless children in hotels are struggling to get to school, a group learned. It now wants…
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Before a month’s worth of rain fell onto the nation’s capital in a single hour, flooding her apartment and destroying most of her family’s belongings, Christina Gaddis had a home that offered a…
Washington Business Journal: Buyer emerges for the Hechinger Mall site in Northeast D.C.
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MRP Realty and JM Zell Partners have struck a deal to buy the Hechinger Mall site in Northeast D.C., potentially setting the stage for a major redevelopment of the nearly 40-year-old retail center.
D.C. Attorney General Settles With Company That Wouldn’t Install Windows East Of The River
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The District settled a civil rights lawsuit against a window replacement company that allegedly denied service to customers east of the Anacostia River based on crime statistics, Attorney General…
Washington Post: ‘It’s disgraceful’: Pressure grows on Metro board member over role in Evans probe
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Pressure is mounting on the District’s second voting Metro board representative to resign after allegations that he leaned on the agency’s staff and took other steps to conceal an ethics violation by…
DCist: Arthur Capper Senior Trapped In Building For Five Days After Fire Sues Management Company
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The elderly man who was found trapped in his apartment at the Arthur Capper Senior Center five days after a fire ravaged the building is now suing the senior complex’s management company for $3…
WTOP: DC settles with window company in discrimination case
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A window company has settled with D.C. after the attorney general’s office accused it of discrimination in not providing service to certain areas, including ZIP codes east of the Anacostia River.
Washington Business Journal: Pennsylvania Avenue at White House to close for fence project
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The stretch of Pennsylvania Avenue NW in front of the White House will close entirely, effective immediately, to allow for construction of a new, higher fence at the White House.
WAMU: ‘They Ask Me, What Is The Holocaust?’ Teens Connect With Holocaust Survivors Through Art
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Holocaust survivor Halina Yasharoff Peabody studies a painting based on her life.
Washington Post: This novel D.C. academy trains people with disabilities to provide paid support for others living with…
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For Antonio Myers, life with autism has always felt like sitting in a movie theater.
Washington Post: Giant panda Bei Bei turns 4 this week, but his days in Washington are numbered
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Happy birthday to a giant panda.
WAMU: Bowser Blocks Proposed Shelter For Unaccompanied Immigrant Children In D.C.
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Mayor Muriel Bowser has signed an emergency rule blocking a 200-bed shelter for unaccompanied immigrant children that would have been located in the Takoma neighborhood of Northwest D.C.
The Georgetowner: Hyde-Addison Transformed: Georgetown’s Public Elementary School Is Student-Ready
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Principal Calvin Hooks smiled broadly late Friday afternoon, Aug. 9, as some 40 parents and children ooh-ed and aah–ed and commented: “Amazing!” Hooks was showing them around Georgetown’s…
Washington Post: Rowhouse where fire killed man and injured child was not approved for rentals, city officials say
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They were strangers when their lives converged at the white-painted brick rowhouse in the middle of Kennedy Street in Northwest Washington.
Washington Post: D.C. mayor issues regulations to stop federal shelter for migrant children
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The administration of D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) has enacted emergency regulations that would stop a planned federal shelter for unaccompanied migrant children in Northwest Washington.
Courtland Milloy in The Post: Ron Clark helped many break the bonds of addiction. He understood drugs were only part of…
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Ronald C. Clark, co-founder of RAP Inc. drug treatment center in the District, was remembered at a memorial service last week as a visionary, a pioneer and a hero to many who were able to break the…
Washington Post: D.C.’s first Revel moped crash was reported Sunday. The rider hit a pothole and fell off.
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The man reportedly suffered a broken collarbone.
UrbanTurf: The Over 1,150 Units Destined for Congress Heights
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Today, UrbanTurf turns our attention to the residential pipeline in the neighborhood with one of the most competitive housing markets citywide: Congress Heights. Anticipation for the continuing…
DCist: These Local Parks Will Participate In A Nationwide Service Honoring 400 Years Of African American History
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D.C. will join national parks across the country this weekend in honoring four centuries of African American history with a bell ringing.