Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Maryland Democrat, will be posthumously honored next week by having his remains lie in state on Capitol Hill, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced Friday.
Thomas D’Alesandro, an older brother of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, has died.
The Montgomery County police officer who was killed Monday at a Silver Spring parking garage died by his own hand, officials said Tuesday evening.
Several of D.C. sniper Lee Boyd Malvo’s victims have taken the killer’s side for a Supreme Court hearing Wednesday where he will ask for mercy and a chance to someday walk out of prison.
A new poll shows that more than 70% of Baltimore residents would support police using surveillance planes to help stop violent crime.
Montgomery County Police are searching for the person who fatally shot an officer Monday morning in a Silver Spring parking garage — the county’s first fatal shooting of an on-duty police officer since 2003.
Ted Leonsis and Monumental Sports and Entertainment are enjoying their most high-profile stretch since the company was founded. But can Leonsis succeed in his greatest reclamation project yet -- the Washington Wizards?
New Orleans officials set off a series of explosions designed to topple two cranes looming precariously over a partially collapsed hotel; 1 crane appears to be left hanging atop building as debris from another one crashes down.
A medical examiner says a Maryland police officer found with a gunshot wound in a parking garage died of a self-inflicted injury
For co-owners Shira Elvarat and her father, Paul Vlotnicki, the closing of the Woodside Deli at its flagship location in Silver Spring was like a death in the family or the loss of a best friend.
Police said Saturday that a 15-year-old boy has died after being stabbed aboard a Metro train the previous afternoon as it approached a station on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.
Maryland Republican Gov. Larry Hogan says he supports an impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump, because he doesn't see any other way "to get the facts."
The legislation, co-introduced by the entire D.C. Council, would make the city after January 2021 the first jurisdiction in the country to restore the right to vote to incarcerated felons. (Maine and Vermont never took away the right to vote for prisoners.) As the law stands right now in the District, convicted felons can vote only after fully completing their sentences.
