By Andrea Noble - The Washington Times
Authorities have made an agreement not to prosecute a Northwest D.C. man who used his unregistered handgun to shoot and kill a pit bull in order to stop it from mauling a child in his neighborhood. Published May 19, 2013 Comments
By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times
Virginia Republicans will put up an unquestionably conservative ticket in the fall elections, a prospect delighting the party’s base and presenting a crystal-clear contrast with Democrats in what is likely to be the marquee election of 2013. Published May 18, 2013 Comments
By Deborah Simmons - The Washington Times
Here’s another feather for the cap of advocates who want to establish solid lines that link actual teaching to actual learning. Published May 19, 2013 Comments
By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times
Chesapeake Bishop E.W. Jackson, who mounted an unsuccessful run for U.S. Senate last year, emerged the wire-to-wire winner in the race for the GOP nomination for Virginia’s lieutenant governor at the state GOP’s nominating convention Saturday. Published May 19, 2013 Comments
By Meredith Somers - The Washington Times
A Sterling woman was arrested this weekend on charges related to a shooting death of her husband, a police officer, the Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office said. Published May 19, 2013 Comments
By Andrea Noble - The Washington Times
Prospects that the District will become the first jurisdiction in the nation to require gun owners to purchase liability insurance were dampened Thursday when Mayor Vincent C. Gray made known that he does not support the proposed legislation. Published May 16, 2013 Comments
By Andrea Noble - The Washington Times
A Silver Spring man is charged with attempted murder after police said he shot another man while high on PCP and then climbed naked onto a fire truck parked in a busy Calverton shopping center. Published May 16, 2013 Comments
By Meredith Somers - The Washington Times
Gun control advocates in Maryland were bracing for an inevitable challenge to a law giving the state some of the strictest weapons prohibitions in the nation, even as they gathered Thursday to applaud Gov. Martin O’Malley for signing the bill he shepherded through the General Assembly. Published May 16, 2013 Comments
By Andrea Noble - The Washington Times
A national movement to grant more teens the right to vote scored its first victory this week with the passage of legislation in Takoma Park, to lower the voting age in municipal elections to 16. But momentum continued Wednesday as advocates in Massachusetts spoke at the State House in favor of allowing 17-year-olds to vote. Published May 15, 2013 Comments
By Meredith Somers - The Washington Times
Metro officials on Wednesday said they had ruled out track conditions as a potential cause for a fire under a train at the Silver Spring station and were turning their focus to the train car itself. Published May 15, 2013 Comments
By Deborah Simmons - The Washington Times
Second Amendment supporters beware: Cathy Lanier is talking tough — Annie Oakley tough. Published May 15, 2013 Comments
By Meredith Somers - The Washington Times
Crews have finished wrapping the Washington Monument in scaffolding, meaning repairs to the earthquake-damaged landmark can begin. Published May 15, 2013 Comments
By David Ginsburg - Associated Press
Orb will seek to keep alive his bid to become horse racing's first Triple Crown winner since Affirmed in 1978. Orb won the Derby by 2½ lengths as the betting favorite. Published May 15, 2013
By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times
A retired postal worker from Woodbridge, Va., must be the luckiest man alive, winning the lottery four times in the past few years for a total pot of $2.025 million. Published May 15, 2013
By Associated Press
Virginia Tech President Charles Steger, who has been criticized by families and others for the way he handled the 2007 mass shooting, announced Tuesday that he is retiring. Published May 14, 2013
By Associated Press
Published May 14, 2013
By Brett Zongker - Associated Press
Washington National Cathedral and George Washington's Mount Vernon estate each won $100,000 grants Monday, among 24 sites around the nation's capital competing for historic preservation funds. Published May 13, 2013
By Andrea Noble - The Washington Times
A Northeast D.C. nightclub, shuttered after a man was stabbed there last week, has banned a go-go act because of violence at its shows, according to official reports on the incident. Published May 13, 2013
By Meredith Somers - The Washington Times
A Montgomery County housewife and political activist has revived a stalled referendum effort against Maryland's recently passed gun-control bill, breaking from a plan favored by the National Rifle Association and leaving her the daunting task of producing thousands of signatures in about two weeks. Published May 13, 2013
By Associated Press
A Laurel man fatally shot his wife and his adult step-daughter Monday, Prince George's County police said. Published May 13, 2013
By Michael Felberbaum - Associated Press
Jonnie R. Williams' lavish gifts and his company’s generous political donations are at the center of a growing scandal dogging the state’s two top Republicans — Gov. Bob McDonnell and Attorney General Kenneth T. Cuccinelli II. Published May 13, 2013
By Associated Press
A teenage girl charged in her father's death remains in custody along with her boyfriend, who is also accused in the killing. Published May 13, 2013
By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times
Ray Thompson came home from Vietnam in 1969 badly wounded, having lost four ribs, a kidney and his spleen. It wouldn't have been in his nature, said widow Patty Thompson, to grapple with the federal government just to see his name etched into the black granite of the memorial wall. But it's most certainly in hers. Published May 12, 2013
By Deborah Simmons - The Washington Times
All right, ladies. Do not get your thongs, boxers or briefs all twisted. Don't think "back-alley" abortions are no more because of Roe v. Wade. Published May 12, 2013
By Andrea Noble - The Washington Times
Two of the Metropolitan Police Departments' key computer systems were down for several hours due to a network issue this week, police confirmed. Published May 9, 2013
By Andrea Noble - The Washington Times
The pace at which illegal immigrants are deported from the District under a federal initiative is far lower than in surrounding jurisdictions in Virginia and Maryland, even though illegal immigrants make up similar proportions of their populations. Published May 9, 2013
