By Meredith Somers - The Washington Times
The D.C. Council on Tuesday approved emergency legislation to address regulations for the city’s food trucks, bringing a peaceful compromise to a three-year battle between brick-and-mortar restaurants and the popular mobile vendors. Published June 18, 2013 Comments
By Andrea Noble - The Washington Times
A Department of Labor attorney charged with assaulting a co-worker in a violent attack at her Northwest home was found dead with his throat slit at the D.C. Jail early Tuesday — the day after his preliminary hearing in court. Published June 18, 2013 Comments
By Meredith Somers - The Washington Times
A 17-year-old Washington-Lee High School student was charged with reckless driving Tuesday in relation to a skateboarding accident that left his friend and fellow student dead, Arlington County police said. Published June 18, 2013 Comments
By Andrea Noble - The Washington Times
A man shot and injured a family member and fatally shot himself Tuesday morning in the Northwest D.C. Petworth neighborhood. Published June 18, 2013 Comments
By Andrea Noble - The Washington Times
Fairfax County police on Tuesday identified two people killed in Monday’s murder-suicide — revealing that a 36-year-old man fatally shot his mother-in-law and then himself. Published June 18, 2013 Comments
By Meredith Somers - The Washington Times
Matthew Fortese should be ironing out a best-man speech for his brother’s wedding, but instead the 25-year-old is relearning how to talk. Rather than making friends at the new job he was supposed to start two weeks ago, he is settling in at an inpatient rehabilitation center. Published June 17, 2013 Comments
![Chloe's wounds have healed after a violent attack at her previous home, and the 3-year-old Shih Tzu has found a new home in Fairfax County with veterinarian Abby Dunlap and her family. "[S]he certainly hasn't let it get her down," Dr. Dunlap says.](http://media.washtimes.com/media/image/2013/06/16/6_162013_dog-20130613-015-068201_s100x67.jpg?32c569b575b6e71b8dc8911a38c2c29ad4aa751c)
By Meredith Somers - The Washington Times
Chloe the Shih Tzu sashays her way across the hardwood floor, a hot-pink vest secured around her small body. She stops at the feet of Abby Dunlap and waits to be scooped up. Not a bad deal for a dog who survived being stabbed seven times with a steak knife. Published June 16, 2013 Comments
By Deborah Simmons - The Washington Times
In a couple of weeks, D.C. lawmakers are scheduled to hold a public airing of the D.C. Statehood Advocacy Act of 2013, an ill-advised piece of legislation that calls for spending more than $1 million in public money to lobby for and promote statehood, absolute budget autonomy and congressional voting rights for the District of Columbia. What the rest of America thinks of those ideas probably hasn’t crossed officials’ minds, since the doors of opportunity last swung wide open in 1993. Published June 16, 2013 Comments
By Andrea Noble - The Washington Times
A Maryland man with business ties to a prolific political donor at the center of a widespread D.C. campaign finance investigation was charged Thursday with making a straw donation in a House of Representatives race. Published June 13, 2013 Comments
By Meredith Somers - The Washington Times
A fast-moving storm system that affected much of the eastern United States buffeted the D.C. area with rain and wind Thursday, leaving behind downed trees, thousands of power outages and unofficial reports of at least three tornadoes touching down in Maryland. Published June 13, 2013 Comments
By Meredith Somers - The Washington Times
A tornado was reported in central Montgomery County amid fast-moving storms that buffeted the D.C. area Thursday with rain and wind, National Weather Service officials said. Published June 13, 2013 Comments
By Andrea Noble - The Washington Times
Police on Thursday identified a 7-year-old girl killed in a two-vehicle crash in Temple Hills but were still searching for the driver of the other vehicle, who fled the scene of the crash on foot. Published June 13, 2013 Comments
By The Washington Times
Former D.C. Council member Michael A. Brown pleaded guilty in federal court Monday to one count of bribery. Published June 10, 2013
By Celina Durgin - The Washington Times
Mike Cuthriell has navigated D.C. government regulations for two-and-a-half years to open a medical marijuana dispensary and now only needs a final inspection from the Department of Health before he can officially open his Metropolitan Wellness Center. But the center won't be able to stay open unless the health department sanctions one more thing: patients. Published June 10, 2013
By Jeffrey Anderson - The Washington Times
The D.C. board that adjudicates public employee disputes has been accused of discriminating against whites and conservatives, but city officials also have questioned whether claims of prejudice are rooted in a labor union bias on the part of the board's members, according to the board's former executive director. Published June 10, 2013
By Andrea Noble - The Washington Times
Former D.C. Council member Michael A. Brown pleaded guilty Monday to a public corruption charge for accepting tens of thousands of dollars in cash stuffed in duffel bags and coffee cups while in office, following in the footsteps of two other former city lawmakers who pleaded guilty last year to federal crimes. Published June 10, 2013
By Meredith Somers - The Washington Times
A 4-year-old Montgomery County girl was killed in a car crash that also killed her father and uncle and seriously injured her mother, police said Monday. Published June 10, 2013
By Deborah Simmons - The Washington Times
All eyes and ears are on Washington, D.C., where this month, perhaps as soon as Monday, the Supreme Court is expected to take the blinders off and rule on challenges to the seminal Voting Rights Act of 1965, whose signing by then-President Johnson drew women attired in hats and gloves, and had whites and blacks sharing near picture-perfect space in the White House as witnesses to history. Published June 9, 2013
By Andrea Noble - The Washington Times
A calculated federal sting operation such as the one that ensnared former D.C. Council member Michael A. Brown for bribery wouldn't have gotten off the ground without evidence of prior suspicious dealings, former federal prosecutors said. Published June 9, 2013
By Meredith Somers - The Washington Times
On Sunday, just days after a four-alarm fire destroyed the beloved store, Frager's was once again open for business — albeit a truncated version — selling plants, flowers, pots and any remaining "survivors" at a pop-up store at Eastern Market. Published June 9, 2013
By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times
The race to win a job that pays $36,000 a year and requires skills hardly more demanding than the ability to stand for long periods of time is attracting an inordinate amount of attention this year in Virginia. Published June 9, 2013
By Andrea Noble - The Washington Times
Federal prosecutors on Friday charged former D.C. Council member Michael A. Brown with one count of felony bribery for accepting $55,000 from FBI agents he thought to be representatives of a company seeking a minority contract with the District. Published June 7, 2013
By Eric Tucker - Associated Press
Former District of Columbia Council member Michael Brown has been charged with bribery and has told associates that he plans to plead guilty. Published June 7, 2013
By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times
Four affiliated abortion clinics in Maryland were shut down and three doctors had their licenses suspended after a patient died at one clinic and regulators found negligence at all four. Published June 6, 2013
By Ben Nuckols - Associated Press
D.C. Council member Marion Barry has reported receiving thousands of dollars in gifts from two construction firms that do business with the city, and the owner of one of the firms said Thursday he gave Mr. Barry the money to pay his bills because the former mayor was in a "tight crunch." Published June 6, 2013
By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times
One sheriff in Maryland is bucking his state's new gun laws, calling them unconstitutional and requesting that local governing authorities agree to selective enforcement. Published June 6, 2013
By Meredith Somers - The Washington Times
Customers, neighbors and employees Thursday struggled to come to terms with the fact that a beloved general hardware store was no more, the victim of a four-alarm fire that destroyed the 93-year-old Capitol Hill institution. Published June 6, 2013
