Montgomery County lawmakers on Tuesday discussed strategies to collect the most accurate census data in a jurisdiction with a variety of immigrant communities that might be fearful of sharing information with the government.
Lee Boyd Malvo, the Washington, D.C., area sniper, and Virginia agreed Monday to dismiss a pending Supreme Court case after the state changed criminal sentencing law for juveniles.
D.C. Council held a hearing Thursday on bills that would give housing voucher recipients money for rental application fees and prohibit landlords from denying rental applications from people who pay in part with vouchers.
D.C. Council members on Wednesday questioned Metro Transit Police Chief Ronald Pavlik Jr. about his department’s use-of-force policies after officers last week handcuffed a 13-year-old at a station and the agency confirmed that some officers had competed to see who could make the most arrests and issue the most citations.
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam’s push to ban the sale of assault weapons has failed after members of his own party balked at the proposal.
The Greenbelt Police Department is advising people not to meet strangers from dating apps following a string of armed robberies in which victims were lured by the applications.
Recent reports about meetings arranged on dating apps turning into crimes have prompted police to issue warnings and users to question their safety.
The D.C. Council on Wednesday questioned decisions by the city's ethics and elections agencies following a year of scandals that resulted in an expensive special election and a disgraced former lawmaker using taxpayer dollars to fund his campaign despite owing the government money.
Two law enforcement officers with a fugitive task force were injured and a suspect died in a shooting Wednesday in Baltimore, the U.S. Marshals Service said.
A House committee on Tuesday approved for the first time in 27 years legislation that would make the District the 51st state, following House Republicans' constitutional arguments against the bill.
The ERA would declare equality of rights on "account of sex." What that means exactly is contentious. If the amendment is added to the Constitution, it would create a morass of legal questions -- chief among them whose vision of sex would control it.
A judge on Tuesday tossed out a libel lawsuit filed by Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax against a television network he accused of slanted reporting on sexual assault allegations levied against him.
Democratic lawmakers in Virginia are advancing legislation to ban the sale of assault weapons and the possession of high-capacity magazines.
