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A District man has been charged with fraudulently obtaining more than $2.1 million in federal coronavirus relief loans and stealing more than $427,000 from the Catholic Church, using the money to buy a yacht, a million-dollar rowhouse and…

Over the past two months, as the region has continued its phased reopening plans, public health experts have reemphasized the need for contact tracing as a tool to limit the spread of the coronavirus. Nationally, some states have tripled…

Happy Tuesday. DC has had 121 homicides so far this year — a 21% increase from the same period in 2019, when the District ended up with its highest annual total in more than a decade. At least 570 people have been shot in the city in 2020,…

Responding to a spate of reported 911 dispatching issues, a Washington, D.C., auditor might conduct a long-awaited probe of the Office of Unified Communications next year. Alleged OUC incidents -- including sending first responders to the…

A little over a year and a half since its founding, the Wharf-based startup is ending its for-profit work on Aug. 15. Here's what happened and what's next for its driver safety crowdsourcing app.

Mayor Muriel Bowser and the D.C. Housing Finance Agency announced the relaunch of the city’s mortgage assistance program, D.C. MAP, on Tuesday. Borrowers who qualify can receive up to $5,000 per month to put toward their mortgages in an…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Amid widespread protests and unrest over the police killings of Black Americans, a national commemoration of the 1963 civil rights March on Washington is being reconfigured to comply with coronavirus protocols in the…

Through his work as executive director of Serve Your City, a D.C.-based nonprofit focused on local at-risk youth, Maurice Cook has seen students face huge educational barriers both before and after the COVID-19 crisis began.

Anyone who has spent more than a passing moment inside a local bookstore knows each one carries a distinct personality.

Fabian Tinsley's family learned of his death by reading about it online, 110 days after he had passed away while serving a 23-year prison sentence.

A recently passed police reform bill in D.C. has already sparked a lawsuit by a police union in the District. Now, an official with the Fraternal Order of Police in Montgomery County, Maryland, said his union is considering possible legal…

At least 570 people have been shot in the District this year, a spike of 45 percent over the same period last year that is driving up homicides and frustrating residents and leaders alike.

The D.C. police union filed a lawsuit Monday seeking to stop the District’s decision to make public the names of officers who use deadly or serious force and their body camera footage within five days of an incident.

Doughnuts are returning to DCUSA.

When Chioma Iwuoha, a Ward 7 community organizer and leader, saw a large gathering amassing on her block in the Greenway neighborhood on Saturday, she knew how she could help.

After last month’s spikes in coronavirus cases numbers around the region, some metrics are ticking downward.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Police in the District of Columbia are calling for community input to catch the perpetrators of a mass shooting at a crowded block party over the weekend that left one person dead and 20 others, including a police…