Public safety

In a District neighborhood with “Black Lives Matter” and “Immigrants Are Welcome Here” signs displayed proudly on many of its front lawns, the revelation that two avowed Neo-Nazis lived among them has Bloomingdale neighbors reeling.

As we’ve learned in Charlottesville, Pittsburgh and Orlando, hate is not about geography.

A neighbor in Washington’s Bloomingdale neighborhood warned a cop about extremists Jeffrey and Edward Clark. It wasn’t enough.

In D.C., the statute of limitations for prosecuting most sexual abuse cases is 15 years, but a new bill that passed its first vote on Tuesday would eliminate that statute of limitations.

A D.C. man who described himself as a white nationalist to law enforcement officers and became a social-media follower of the suspect in the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting has been arrested on a gun charge after his worried relatives…

Shot dead at 14, Steve Slaughter fell victim to the scourge of everyday gun violence

Injury comes as reporter focuses on serious ladder truck & general fleet problems

WASHINGTON (Circa) — Grace Maria says she was headed back into her office in Washington, D.C. when she noticed a homeless man involved in a confrontation with police.

Firefighters were called to Metro stations at least 813 times for smoke- and fire-related incidents from January 2014 through December 2017 — calls that were most prevalent at stations along the western end of the Red Line, in the downtown…

A new division in the D.C. Office of the Attorney General has been specially trained to prosecute crimes committed against vulnerable groups, such as children and victims of sexual assault, in an effort to spare them further trauma.

WASHINGTON — After a shooting at a synagogue in Pittsburgh that killed 11 people and injured six others, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser has ordered heightened police presence at synagogues throughout D.C. In a statement, Bowser said she will be…

I live two blocks from 11th and P streets NW, where a young woman was stabbed to death in September while jogging. This unfortunate incident might have been avoided if the media had given more coverage to the man who was stabbed in the area…

A Maryland man was found guilty Thursday of murdering three members of a wealthy Northwest Washington family and their housekeeper in 2015, brutal crimes that gripped the nation’s capital. The jury’s Thursday verdict in the case against…

A man who kicked his way through two plexiglass doors at the Fox 5 television station in Northwest Washington was shot and wounded by a security guard Monday afternoon, D.C. police said. Police identified the man as George Odemns, 38, and…

D.C. police are investigating allegations of sexual misconduct against a department chair at Duke Ellington School of the Arts. Principal Sandi Logan informed parents Wednesday in a letter that the teacher was placed on leave while the…

The Oct. 12 editorial decrying a rise in homicides in the District, “A rising D.C. death toll,” praised the D.C. police for “dispatching extra officers and doubling down on seizures of illegal guns” in Ward 8. The editorial went on to…

WASHINGTON – The search is over for the driver of a sedan D.C. police say struck and killed a cyclist in downtown D.C. last month. Police arrested 20-year-old Phillip Peoples of Suitland, Maryland, on Friday and charged him with second…

A D.C. TEENAGER who had been shot more than a year earlier died from his injuries on Jan. 5, becoming the city’s first homicide victim of 2018. Five days later, on Jan. 10, another teenager — Paris Brown, 19 — was shot and killed in…