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Happy Tuesday. DC Police Chief Peter Newsham is heading across the Potomac to become chief of police for Prince William County, Virginia.

D.C. Police Chief Peter Newsham is leaving the force to take over the police department in Prince William County, Va., ending a three-decade career in law enforcement in the nation’s capital.

D.C. Police Chief Peter Newsham is stepping down to head the Prince William County Police Department in Northern Virginia, according to Sherrie Johnson, a spokesperson for the county. Newsham’s will start the new position on February 1,…

D.C. police Chief Peter Newsham has been hired as the new police chief for Prince William County, Virginia.

From the addiction treatment clinic that he runs in Northwest Washington, Johnny Allem can sometimes see cars double-parked in front of a nearby liquor store. Customers come out hauling booze by the bag, the box, the case.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — In the grainy cell phone video, the scene is tense. Surrounded by onlookers, a Washington Metropolitan Police Department officer points his unholstered gun at Renita Nettles who nevertheless continues to advance with…

Metro is pulling all its 6000-series railcars from service after a train separated Tuesday afternoon on the Red Line. The event bears similarities with another recent separation, the agency said in a statement.

Metro said that it is temporarily sidelining its fleet of 6000-series railcars, after passengers got stuck on a Metro Red Line train when cars became separated in a tunnel near the Glenmont Station Tuesday.

The food delivery service DoorDash will pay $2.5 million to settle a lawsuit brought by D.C.’s attorney general that alleged the company pocketed workers’ tips, prosecutors said Tuesday.

DoorDash will pay a total of $2.5 million to settle a lawsuit filed last year by D.C.’s attorney general alleging it misled customers about how much of their tips were actually going to delivery drivers.

Some gyms across D.C. are struggling to keep up with Mayor Muriel Bowser’s most recent COVID-19 regulations that go into effect Wednesday.

D.C. Attorney General Karl A. Racine on Tuesday announced a settlement with food delivery service DoorDash, requiring it to pay $2.5 million following claims that it misled D.C. consumers and pocketed tips that were supposed to have gone…

SPARE A thought this Thanksgiving week for Kazi Mannan, the polite, unfailingly compassionate owner of a no-frills Indian-Pakistani buffet restaurant a few blocks from the White House. Since he opened Sakina Halal Grill, in 2013, Mr.…

The largest development planned for DC's Buzzard Point is starting to take shape.

The D.C. Council’s Judiciary and Public Safety Committee voted unanimously on Monday to approve a bill supported by LGBTQ activists that bans the use of the so-called gay and transgender panic defense in criminal trials, clearing the way…

A month ago, UrbanTurf reported on a proposal to replace the three-story annex at First Baptist Church at 1328 16th Street NW with a 78-unit apartment building. Now, The Drake II has been given a nudge towards approval.