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The director of the embattled D.C. Department of Forensic Sciences is stepping down.

The director of D.C.’s forensics lab, Dr. Jenifer Smith, has resigned amid mounting pressure from local officials for leadership changes within the city’s Department of Forensic Sciences.

Following this week’s announcement from D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser about loosening more pandemic restrictions, the D.C. State Athletic Association is officially permitting all high school sports to resume on May 21.

The D.C. Department of Forensic Sciences has been at the center of a criminal investigation by the District inspector general and recently lost its accreditation

My 6-year-old noticed the raised dots first.

The U.S. attorney’s office in Maryland has formed a regional task force to prosecute carjackings that span the District and the two Maryland counties that border it as crime rates in the area continue to spike.

Starting Friday, fully vaccinated (meaning two weeks past a last dose) fans can go maskless in all parts of Nationals Park — indoors or outdoors. The park made the announcement Wednesday, in line with D.C.’s newest mask guidance.

The Washington Nationals are changing their face mask policy at Nationals Park starting Friday for the team’s upcoming home games, in accordance with D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser’s Monday announcement about mask requirements in the District.

An employee with the D.C. police department was sentenced Wednesday for illegally giving out personal information on traffic accident victims in exchange for more than $40,000 in cash bribes over a two-year period.

Art lovers who despaired over the closure of D.C.'s art museums during the COVID pandemic can now book a return to their favorite museum.

Foggy Bottom’s first food hall is slated to open later this summer — almost a year after its original debut date.

Five years of contentious debate finally came to an end Tuesday, when members of the D.C. Council unanimously approved changes to the city’s Comprehensive Plan.

Government leaders in Richmond, Annapolis and the District are wrestling with a side effect of the coronavirus pandemic that they did not anticipate: excess revenue.

D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson’s efforts to cut into D.C.’s blanket eviction moratorium failed yesterday with an amendment largely backed by the body’s most progressive members.

Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg joined D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser at the construction site of the new Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge on Wednesday. They toured the bridge, and Bowser delivered a speech about the American Jobs…

Nearly 90 former federal prosecutors are asking Attorney General Merrick Garland and the acting U.S. attorney in Washington to abandon a Trump-era policy of charging certain gun crimes in federal court amid concerns about long prison…

The General Services Administration has backed off a plan to move three federal agencies from their decadeslong home after it had sparked back-to-back lawsuits from their current landlord. The GSA filed notice in the U.S. District Court…

Head’s up D.C. — or maybe heads down.

Engaged citizens and government gadflys, take note: while can get a drink in a bar or go into a business in most of the Washington region, it may still be a while longer before you’ll be able to march into a county building or city hall…