The suicide of a police officer in Montgomery County, Maryland, this week is part of a surge in law enforcers across the country taking their lives, prompting police departments to address concerns about the mental health of their members. Published October 17, 2019
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. Published October 16, 2019
The Montgomery County police officer who was killed Monday at a Silver Spring parking garage died by his own hand, officials said Tuesday evening. Published October 15, 2019
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. Published October 14, 2019
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. Published October 13, 2019
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. Published October 10, 2019
It was just a week ago, Mercedes Lemp recalled, that a survivor of domestic violence faced harassment on a D.C. street, panicked and called for help. Published October 9, 2019
The D.C. Council faced a full agenda Tuesday, taking up a proposed new tax on sodas and sugary drinks, a ban on noncompete agreements for workers in low-wage jobs and tougher new restrictions on cooperating with federal immigration agencies. Published October 8, 2019
The D.C. Council will consider emergency legislation on Tuesday prohibiting city agencies from cooperating with federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers without a warrant, an escalation of the clash with the Trump administration that Chairman Phil Mendelson said was consistent with the city's approach "toward the federal government's inability to deal with immigration." Published October 7, 2019
The mother of a young man who was gunned down in Southeast in August pleaded Thursday at a D.C. Council hearing for something to be done about the disproportionate amount of violence her community faces and the lack of resources it has to address it. Published October 3, 2019
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. Published October 2, 2019
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. Published October 1, 2019
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. Published September 30, 2019
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. Published September 30, 2019
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. Published September 27, 2019
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. Published September 25, 2019
A Montgomery County Council member on Tuesday introduced legislation that would bar businesses from discriminating against employees over their ethnic hairstyles. Published September 24, 2019
Montgomery County Executive Marc Elrich announced Monday that he plans to nominate acting police Chief Marcus Jones to the permanent position, ending a five-monthlong search for a replacement. Published September 23, 2019
Climate change protesters blocked downtown D.C. streets by shackling themselves to each other, pipes -- even a sailboat -- during Monday's morning rush hour to draw attention to their cause under the banner of #ShutdownDC. Published September 23, 2019
First lady Melania Trump kicked off the Washington Monument's reopening with a ribbon-cutting ceremony that included Interior Secretary David Bernhardt, National Mall and Memorial Parks Superintendent Jeff Reinbold and fourth-graders from Amidon-Bowen Elementary School in Southwest Washington, among others. Published September 19, 2019
