Category: Washington D.C. News

District 7-11 Stores will begin accepting IRS payments from residents without bank accounts. (Courtesy photo) The Internal Revenue Service announced April 6 that taxpayers who wish to pay their taxes in cash or do not have bank accounts or credit cards can now take care of their tax bill at one of 7,000 participating 7-Eleven […]

The District of Columbia Council is rethinking legislation that requires residents seeking a driver’s license for the first time to take mandatory driver education. The mandate was to go into effect May 1. However, following charges it would create hardships for poor and immigrant communities, Ward 3 Councilmember Mary Cheh, chair of the Committee on […]

Two Northwest, D.C. residents died after being beaten in two separate assault incidents several months ago. Each death was ruled a homicide after the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner reported the cause of both deaths was blunt force trauma, police reported. One beating took place in the 300 block of Delafield Place, NW on […]

The Epilepsy Foundation will host its 10th annual National 5k Walk for Epilepsy near the Washington Monument on the National Mall April 16. The walk started in 2006 and has raised nearly $10 million to help provide services for people living with epilepsy, awareness for seizure recognition with first aid, and research toward better treatment […]

The African American Civil War Museum, 1925 Vermont Avenue, NW, will hold several emancipation day events on April 16 from 3 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. The events will include: a talk, “Bullets to Ballots: the Voting Rights Legacy of the USCT” at 3 p.m., where Scholar Hari Jones, the curator of the exhibit Glorious March […]

The National Park Service and the 11th Street Bridge Park are scheduled to hold the second annual Anacostia River Festival, a premier event and official closing program of the National Cherry Blossom Festival on April 17 from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. The event will take place at Anacostia Park, National Park Service, located at […]

On any given weeknight, Khalil Lee is likely to be dancing around the house with his mother, Kisha. From two-stepping to Motown hits, and doing “the dougie” to rapping with Fetty Wap, the Flint Hill School senior knows how to have fun. Lee’s fun-loving personality follows him on to the field as well—according to the […]

Washington, D.C.’s homicide count stands at 28 following four slayings between March 16 and April 3, according to the Metropolitan Police Department. Gabriel Carlos Turner was killed going to a bus stop after leaving his mother’s apartment. (Courtesy Photos/Metropolitan Police Department) Those 28 deaths are on track with last year’s pace; the city saw 29 […]

8-year-old Relisha Rudd (Courtesy Photo) A new two-day search in connection with the case of Relisha Rudd, a homeless D.C. child missing for more than two years, met with no success, authorities said. Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Police Chief Cathy L. Lanier on April 7 announced that the new search, which included members of the Metropolitan Police […]

D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton firmly supports D.C. budget autonomy. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) On March 18, D.C. Superior Court Judge Brian Holeman ruled that D.C.’s mayor and council have the right to control how locally-generated dollars are spent, not the U.S. Congress. The decision was based on a budget autonomy referendum passed by District voters […]