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Happy Tuesday. It’s hard to find good news in the District’s report of an additional 96 confirmed COVID-19 cases yesterday, but there is a hopeful sign: four days of lower increases in the number of infections.

New reporting of coronavirus infections has revealed high rates of COVD-19 among D.C.’s intellectually disabled — and an ongoing staffing crisis among the people who care for them.

As March turned to April and the District’s social distancing mandate continued, residents of Ward 8 began to notice problems with their mail service: Their mail was coming late, or sometimes not at all; packages read as delivered even…

"I can’t charge $38 for a whole cheesesteak."

New Hampshire allowed its golf courses to reopen Monday after nearly two months closed due to the coronavirus pandemic. That meant all 50 states in the U.S. have allowed golfers to pick up their clubs again — but Washington, D.C., has not.…

The team behind Ivy and Coney had been using Grubhub for about six months when the coronavirus pandemic shut down much of D.C. Before, the fees the app charged were high, but the deliveries were still a nice supplement to their majority…

The "human needs referral service center" operates more like a switchboard.

Advocates for decriminalizing “magic mushrooms” and other psychoactive plants are asking D.C. voters to sign a petition online or by mail to put Initiative 81 on November’s ballot.

Children’s National Hospital is investigating three cases of an inflammatory disease affecting children with potential links to COVID-19.

Tanya Lott has an infectious laugh. Maybe that’s a bad metaphor for the coronavirus era, but there’s no better way to put it. When she laughs, I laugh. And in a recent phone conversation, we laughed a lot.

A federal judge hearing a class-action lawsuit against the D.C. Department of Corrections over conditions at the D.C. Jail during the pandemic was told Monday the jail population has declined as the city took steps to prevent an internal…

D.C. bars and restaurants at risk of going under said business may improve if they’re allowed to take more of it outside once it’s safe for the District to begin reopening.

Attendance continues to be one of the biggest challenges so far.

At least five contract security officers have tested positive for the coronavirus at the New York Avenue homeless shelter in Northeast Washington, D.C.

In the 1970s and ’80s, when Richard Paul Thornell would go with his sons to the grocery store and return late, his wife would teasingly ask, “Did you run into someone from the Peace Corps?” Usually, the answer was yes.

Parking Management Inc., one of Greater Washington's largest and longest-standing parking operators, has filed for bankruptcy protection as the ongoing coronavirus outbreak has exacerbated a slump in demand.

The latest medical mystery surrounding the novel coronavirus’s impact on children has arrived in the District.

Parents across the U.S. are realizing just how hard it can be to educate a child now that so many schools have had to close and transition into distance learning during the coronavirus pandemic.