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INDIANAPOLIS — Lewis D. Ferebee was four years into his tenure as Indianapolis schools superintendent when his “out-of-the-box” approach drew public praise from the nation’s top education official.

Waldon Adams says it has been more than a year since he has seen Clifton Lee. So when Adams ran into him Wednesday night, he knew he wanted to take advantage of the moment.

A paralegal at a law firm that works on immigration issues took the D.C. bar exam last summer. Months later, she heard from the D.C. Court of Appeals, which reviews admissions to the bar: She passed.

WASHINGTON — D.C.-area buses are going 9 percent more slowly and are carrying fewer riders than just a few years ago. Now, the outlines of a major overhaul are expected by April.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser on Jan. 16 signed a bill approved unanimously by the City Council last month calling for banning licensed mental health practitioners from conducting therapy to change the sexual orientation of adults who are under…

Theodore Carter made no public announcement before placing 100 ducks — handmade from transparent packing tape and lit from within — on a Tenleytown field in February 2017.

The city is finding ways to fill gaps in the near term.

Over 90 percent of the students at D.C.’s Thurgood Marshall Academy live in the city’s two poorest neighborhoods. Every graduate since 2005 has been accepted to college

Dismal attendance, re-enrollment and graduation rates notwithstanding, some families in the Bellevue/South Capitol area of Southeast said they consider National Collegiate Preparatory Public Charter School a community gem.

A Twitter bot created last year by a Washington, D.C., resident has put a clever and interactive focus on the city’s scourge of unpaid parking and traffic tickets. And the account could soon partner with the D.C. government to shame…

Metro will offer free rail and bus rides for federal workers affected by the government shutdown, provided the board approves the measure in an emergency vote set for Friday afternoon.

WASHINGTON — Metro plans to allow federal workers to ride free starting on Monday, Metro Board Chairman Jack Evans said.

Metrobus and regional bus systems in the Washington area are too slow, complex and increasingly threatened by competition, according to a new analysis.

A team of researchers at Howard University’s Transportation Research Center, part of the school’s engineering and architecture college, will study D.C. traffic crashes and potential safety improvements over the course of five years, thanks…

I Support the Girls has received dozens of requests for tampons, pads, and bras during the shutdown.

D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) heralded the opening of the first medical marijuana dispensary east of the Anacostia River, adding that she hopes to see new recreational marijuana dispensaries eventually open throughout the city.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. has approved Moxy Bank's application to be Greater Washington’s first new bank in more than 10 years.

WASHINGTON — Virginia Metro Board members threatened Thursday to block any expansion of Metro’s current hours, with Maryland and federal board members and the Federal Transit Administration supporting their concerns about costs and…

As the sun set on a chilly March day last year, close to 20 Georgetown University graduate students gathered on campus in Red Square. A local artist, Adrian Parsons, fiddled with a projector as the students huddled and fidgeted, looking up…