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As the Rev. Rachel Cornwell stood in front of the lectern to address Dumbarton United Methodist Church’s congregation during their weekly Sunday service, dozens of small quilts calling for D.C. to become the country’s 51st state were…

Four homicides in three months have involved child witnesses. In one, a man was shot as he held his 5-year-old’s hand.

An employee of D.C.’s Youth Rehabilitation Services agency is facing charges that he sexually abused a teenage girl in custody there.

An employee with the Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services (DYRS) was arrested and charged Friday with sexually abusing a 17-year-old girl detained at the Youth Services Center.

D.C. efforts to legalize recreational sales of marijuana have suffered another setback in the form of federal legislation.

Deputy Mayor for Education Paul Kihn is “luke warm” on a stand-alone middle school.

The Smithsonian Institution says it has a few favorite sites in downtown D.C. that could eventually be home to two museums.

The District’s public school system will no longer require students and staff to wear masks indoors, Chancellor Lewis D. Ferebee announced. The optional masking policy will go into effect Wednesday.

Agyei Williams, 35, who lives in Eastover near Oxon Hill, Md., rides his bike an hour to and from work every day. For him, cycling is a meditative experience.

Mayor Muriel Bowser’s former DCHA board chair takes another lump.

Students, staff and visitors at D.C. Public Schools can go mask-free starting next week, the school system announced Friday.

D.C. Public Schools could soon lift its mask mandate “for the majority of people.”

Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) outraised challenger Robert C. White Jr. in February and early March as she seeks a third term as D.C. mayor. And with three months to go until the June primary and just weeks left to qualify for the ballot, it…

D.C. Public Schools will lift its indoor face mask requirement next week, joining several other school systems in the Washington region that have recently done the same.

Each weekend since Russia invaded Ukraine, lines snake around the block for D Light Café & Bakery in Adams Morgan.

As a mom living on Capitol Hill, I have been alarmed by recent reports of carjackings taking place nearby — sometimes committed by children. Those reports also trigger memories of being robbed at gunpoint in D.C. more than 15 years ago.…

A commander with the Metropolitan Police Department has submitted his retirement after a 7News DC story revealed him using police patrol cars to travel to and from a bar on U Street. Fifth District Commander William FitzGerald has been…

The District's first elected attorney general is throwing his support to Brian Schwalb to succeed him.

Wayne A. Jacobs, special agent in charge of the bureau’s criminal and cyber division in Washington, says these collaborations are key to reducing crime in the region.

Mayor Muriel Bowser has fundraised three times as much as her top rival in her bid for a third term, raising a projected $787,200 in under six weeks, according to an Axios analysis of new campaign finance reports.