On a balmy summer night about two months ago, Joe Cwiklinski climbed into his car, strapped on the seat belt, and began driving home from a friend’s house in Virginia.
Tougher penalties for gun violations and expanded intervention programs were among the wide ranging topics aired while city leaders considered legislative strategies to help D.C. respond to gun violence.
The Virginia Williams Family Resource Center, the District’s access point to family shelter, opens at 8:30 every morning. Adults with children in tow are assessed, categorized, and sent off. Some are referred to family shelter, which,!-->…
The stately gray stone walls of the Folger Shakespeare Library on East Capitol Street have graced Capitol Hill since 1932, when Shakespeare collector Emily Folger saw her husband Henry’s vision of a “gift to America” to completion.
A couple dozen Georgetown University students broke into a chant Thursday outside a meeting of the school’s board of directors, seeking to put pressure on the university to do more to redress historical wrongs.
D.C.’s effort to fight gun violence now involves proposed legislation that would ban so-called “ghost guns” that don’t contain enough metal to set off most magnetometers and are untraceable.
Georgetown University students gathered Thursday to protest the university's lack of progress on implementing reparations for descendants of slaves once sold by the school. Students voted overwhelmingly in favor of the plan in a referendum!-->…
The mother of a young man who was gunned down in Southeast in August pleaded Thursday at a D.C. Council hearing for something to be done about the disproportionate amount of violence her community faces and the lack of resources it has to!-->…
It’s a wrap for the 16th annual DC Shorts International Short Film Festival and Screenplay Competition, where once again artists and audiences spent 10 days engaged with the craft of short filmmaking.
Demand for D.C. office space continued to grow moderately in Q3, but that trend has been overshadowed by the influx of office buildings delivering with large blocks of available space, keeping the vacancy rate at record levels.
Trinity Pisarsky, a freshman student at Howard University, says she chose to live in the Harriet Tubman Quadrangle (aka “The Quad”), which comprises five dormitory halls, because she’d heard it was the best place to build a sisterhood.
Twin mysteries have been solved Thursday in a case of a man who was brought back from the brink of death after suffering a heart attack while driving in D.C.