Author Archives: DorothyRowley

A 17-year-old Spingarn High School student has been killed as the result of a shooting that occurred in the 1300 block of Holbrook St., in Northeast Washington. The shooting site is in the Trinidad a community, more than a mile away from the school. According to District of Columbia Public Schools spokesman Frederick Lewis, Joseph […]

The office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton is partnering with the Commission on Black Men and Boys to hold a roundtable hearing entitled Youth Violence: Helping Young Boys Become Young Men. The event takes place from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., Nov. 9 at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Library in downtown Washington. Panelists will include […]

Mayor-elect Vincent Gray has announced the 16-member transition team that will be vital in helping him develop the framework to tackle some of the city’s most pressing concerns – including ongoing education reform and balancing the budget. Rounding out a list of local and national leaders who will offer insight and guidance for smoothing over […]

In addition to District of Columbia voters overwhelmingly choosing Vincent Gray to assume the helm of city leadership over the next four years, they also favored At-large Councilman Kwame Brown to replace Gray as City Council chairman during this week’s General Election. Congress Eleanor Holmes Norton, who ran unopposed, retained her post.  And councilmembers Phil […]

When Vincent Gray delivered his victory speech after the Sept. 14 primary, he told the crowd of supporters that had loyally waited into the wee hours of the next morning to congratulate him, that his win had sent a clear message that District residents wanted to bring character, integrity and leadership back to the mayor’s […]

This summer a woman died while sitting on a bench in downtown Washington, D.C. She’d been sitting on the same bench night after night, even when it rained. It turns out that the woman, who’d probably claimed the bench as her own, was homeless. This is just one of the many scenarios often painted in […]

District of Columbia Councilmember Harry Thomas has been ordered to comply with a subpoena from Attorney General Peter Nickles to deliver information about a nonprofit bearing his name. Thomas received the order this week during a hearing in U.S. Superior Court regarding the fundraising activities of Team Thomas. According to Nickles, the organization is nonexistent, […]

A man who believed he was assisting members of Al-Qaeda in a plan to launch bombs at several Metrorail stations in Washington was arrested this week, according to the U.S. Justice Department. After Farooque Ahmed, 34, of Ashburn, Va., was taken into custody Oct. 27, officials alerted the public and Metro system workers that they […]

Peggy Cooper Cafritz, owner of the Northwest Washington mansion that was gutted by fire last year, is suing the District of Columbia. The prominent arts patron, who founded the Duke Elllington School of the Arts, filed the $30 million lawsuit against the city’s water department claiming that inadequate fire hydrants and low water pressure prevented […]

Some University of the District of Columbia faculty members, upset over stalled contract negotiations, are saying that with the matter at a standstill, they are no further ahead now than they were three years ago when negotiations began. According to group spokesman Mohammad El Kawas, a biology professor at the city-operated, open-admissions university, its labor […]

With time winding down to the Nov. 2 General Election, officials at the District of Columbia’s Board of Elections and Ethics have been encouraging residents to take advantage of the early voting sites that will be open through this weekend. BOEE spokeswoman Alysoun McLaughlin said the agency has been seeing a much lighter turnout than […]