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WASHINGTON — The owner of a tutoring company for public school students was sentenced to 18 months in prison Monday after he bribed a government employee. The U.S. Attorney’s Office said Vashawn Strader, 40, of Washington, D.C., pled guilty…

The Treasury Department is investigating the theft of nearly $700,000 from the D.C. government in July by scammers who successfully impersonated a city vendor and had the money wired to their bank account, city officials said.

It’s been about three months since D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine asked U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for information about the 12 people arrested during by ICE agents in Columbia Heights this summer. Short of an email…

A student is hoping to rally the student body behind a push to establish D.C. as the 51st state. Sophomore Elizabeth Irons – who relaunched the GW chapter of Students for D.C. Statehood last month – said she has been working with students…

An on-campus grocery store will pay tens of thousands of dollars for selling alcohol to underage consumers last spring, according to an Alcoholic Beverage Regulation Association order issued last week.

She never thought this would be the way she started her freshman year. After a night of drinking in her residence hall, Rachel was transported to a local hospital after a resident assistant believed her health was at risk. After that night,…

Two years after replacing its successful, longtime artistic director with a celebrated ballerina who had never run a company, the Washington Ballet is struggling to close a $3 million debt and attract audiences to its dramatic change in…

D.C. officials are considering banning right turns on red in some parts of the city as a way to increase street safety, News4 has learned. "No Right Turn on Red" could be the law of the land in the downtown Central Business District and be…

Dear Mayor Bowser, While you may be considering hipsters or partiers or fashion divas of the dark to be your new night mayor, that’s all wrong. Because besides Dracula, you know who works hardest after the sun sets? That’s right — moms.

Ho Sang Cho is worried about what will happen if his Adams Morgan business, Metro K Supermarket, is forced to close because he can't afford the rent increases and meet other demands from his landlord. "There's no real grocery store around…

On a recent morning in the bowels of the Kennedy Center, actor Justin Weaks ran lines for the new one-man play Long Way Down. He planted his sneakered feet and stared straight ahead. “The day before yesterday, Sean was shot and killed,” he…

The black Ford Fusion hybrid with a tiara of laser sensors looped twice through a four-mile stretch of a changing Washington, passing a trendy food hall and a sagging strip mall as it vacuumed up data to build a citywide network of…

Michael Bekesha, a Republican candidate for a D.C. Council seat in an overwhelmingly Democratic city, stood by his booth at the H Street Festival on a sunny October Saturday, having a perfectly civil exchange with two Ward 6 residents.

WASHINGTON — If you heard bells ringing for longer than usual Saturday at the Washington National Cathedral, it’s because of the nine teams of ringers from all across the continent showing off their “change-ringing” in Northwest D.C.

As winter approaches, it becomes more dangerous for people experiencing homelessness to remain unsheltered. In preparation, the D.C. Interagency Council on Homelessness compiles a winter plan for each fiscal year, covering shelter capacity,…

WITH MAYOR Muriel E. Bowser (D), Attorney General Karl A. Racine (D), D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson (D) and D.C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton (D) — all of whom we have endorsed — facing nominal challenges in their reelection bids,…