An armed barricade situation in Burke, Virginia, ended early Tuesday morning when police found two men and a woman dead inside a home. The gunman was among the dead, WTOP reported.
D.C. residents fought through tears Monday as they expressed frustration with the Metropolitan Police Department’s refusal to release video footage from body-worn cameras showing officers killing their loved ones.
The Maryland Film Office is celebrating the millions of dollars that movie and television productions have spent in the state and anticipates more positive economic activity when a new Showtime series begins filming in the Free State.
The Washington Nationals waylaid their critics with a dominant performance Tuesday to win the 2019 National League Championship Series and clinched a World Series berth in improbable fashion.
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.
Once the mecca of American retail, shopping malls across the country are closing at an alarming rate. Real estate analysts and business trend observers point to a multitude of factors changing the way Americans shop, including the rise of online retailers and the more frugal habits of millennial consumers.
Sheila Alexander-Reid says she knows the everyday pain, loss and violence endured by LGBTQ people in the District and across the country. She taps that knowledge as director of the Mayor's Office of LGBTQ Affairs to create opportunities to uplift the community.
Attorney General Mark Herring tweeted his support for the legalization of recreational marijuana in Virginia Tuesday night.
Rep. Elaine Luria and other moderate Democrats backing impeachment are feeling the heat from conservative groups back home, complicating their reelection bids and giving Republicans hopes of winning back seats lost in 2018 and retaking the House majority in 2020.
Property records show former Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh, who resigned in May, has sold her Maryland home for less than half of its assessed value.
A judge is scheduled to hear arguments from attorneys again on whether graphic video of a shooting at a Maryland newspaper can be used at the alleged gunman's trial.
The District's red-light camera program has garnered millions of dollars in wrongly issued fines that the city is not obligated to refund, according to a study by the car owners club AAA Mid-Atlantic.
Fairfax County Police Chief Edwin C. Roessler Jr. said Tuesday he suspended an officer who cooperated with federal deportation officers by turning over an illegal immigrant he encountered during a traffic stop -- a move the chief said violated department policy.
On Tuesdays from 5-8 p.m., Dirty Habit (555 Eighth St. NW) offers the "Green Room at Hotel Monaco," a weekly series featuring up-and-coming local musicians in the hotel lobby. Drinks and bites are available. Jazz guitarist and composer Aaron Agre is the October headliner.
A French teacher is suing the Virginia high school that fired him last year for referring to a transgender male student as "her."
The D.C. Public Schools (DCPS) system is entering the new fiscal year with a $10 million deficit, but the deputy mayor for education said Monday that the budget shortfall will be closed by next month.
Starting Tuesday, it will cost a dollar again to ride the DC Circulator, but some city officials are looking at ways to reinstate the free ride.
A federal judge on Monday upheld a Virginia law requiring women to undergo an ultrasound and wait at least 24 hours before having an abortion and the state's "physician-only law"
Ahead of a busy sports day in the District on Tuesday, Metro said it will operate trains later than regular weekday hours to assist fans attending either the Washington Nationals' wild card game or the Washington Mystics' WNBA Finals game.
It sounded almost too outrageous to be true: A black girl attacked during recess at a private Christian school by three white boys who cut off her dreadlocks. And at a school where Vice President Pence's wife Karen teaches, no less. As it turns out, it wasn't true.
The Washington Nationals will either advance to the divisional series or see their season end prematurely when they play in the National League Wild Card Game. Here's how to watch and what to watch for.
Climate change activists are planning another morning rush hour shutdown for Friday in downtown Washington -- their second this week -- amid criticism that traffic-stalling protests create more frustration and pollution than awareness.
The government's top deportation official said Thursday he would be "ashamed" to be part of Montgomery County, where authorities working under the county's sanctuary policy have released onto the streets a number of illegal immigrants charged with serious crimes in recent weeks.
A representative for building contractors stressed Wednesday the importance of drug testing in her industry during a D.C. Council hearing on legislation that would bar local businesses from testing job applicants who use medical marijuana.
The Army says it is ensuring that American heroes will continue to be buried at Arlington National Cemetery for the next 150 years by instituting stricter eligibility requirements for interment at the military graveyard.
