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All afternoon, Diane Offutt sat in Courtroom C-10 of D.C. Superior Court, where newly charged defendants are processed into the system and a judge decides about bail. Thursday was like most afternoons in C-10, with dozens of handcuffed…

WASHINGTON — Folks lined the streets of downtown D.C. Sunday afternoon to celebrate Chinese New Year. It was a community affair to ring in the year of the pig, which represents wealth, fun and good fortune.

Howard University violated a federal safety rule by allowing a hazardous radioactive substance to be stored in one of its laboratories without permission, according to a letter from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Lewis D. Ferebee has questions.

Kevin Chavous is not an expert fiction writer, and he knows it. In fact, he would be the first person to tell you. "I've never viewed myself as a creative guy," the former D.C. council member and onetime mayoral candidate told me over…

More than 200 D.C. families that thought their children would have a shot at getting into one of the city’s most prestigious public high schools had their hopes extinguished last week when they learned they no longer qualify — because of a…

The number of traffic fatalities decreased slightly in the Washington region last year — with the exception of pedestrian deaths, which shot up nearly 20 percent.

Dozens of residents in Northwest Washington near the former Walter Reed Army Medical Center say they have noticed a foul odor emanating from the facility for more than a week.

Some might not expect a school in southeast Washington, D.C., to have the only all-black robotics team at a national competition. Others might look at Hendley Elementary School’s Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and…

It’s likely that someone who didn’t belong inside a public housing complex for D.C. seniors started the massive blaze that destroyed it, federal investigators found, but because of factors that include bungled building security, they might…

NATIONWIDE, THE number of murders is trending down. Not, though, in the District of Columbia: Homicides last year soared by nearly 40 percent and are still on the rise. Many factors are at play, but at center stage in the carnage has been…

A 32-year-old man who was killed last year in a crash involving a D.C. fire engine responding to a call in Northeast Washington failed to yield to the emergency vehicle, according to a report released Friday.

The latest salvo in national publications’ ongoing war against the real D.C. comes courtesy of Esquire, which published a meandering feature story on Thursday with the red-hot thesis that most people in Washington don’t like the Trump…

When Sofia Campoamor was a ninth-grader at Washington’s Sidwell Friends School, a special-guest group dropped by her chorus class: the Whiffenpoofs, the oldest college a cappella group in the country. The members of the singing group told…

As of now, tenants largely have to rely on their landlords’ good graces to have mold remediated

Adams Morgan's nightlife scene and funky character are powerful draws, but the Northwest D.C. neighborhood's population has remained stagnant for decades as scarce available land and active opposition have stood in the way of development.…

Over the last decade, the District has made a tremendous investment in the city’s libraries: completely modernizing 19 aging buildings to often dramatic effect, with another five in the works. So why is the D.C. Public Library undertaking…