Category: Washington D.C. News

The thorny issue of transportation efficiency in the Washington, D.C. region could be solved by broadening bicycle sharing to include a pod car system, which would feature automated vehicles operating on a network of guide ways. That solution, which is a long way from being put into place, was good enough to win a team […]

A District of Columbia mayoral candidate wants the nation’s capital to join a growing number of states that have decriminalized marijuana possession. The trend reflects nationwide concern about over-criminalization and the disproportionate impact of such laws on Blacks and other minorities. “The effort to decriminalize marijuana is about removing barriers for individuals – the impact […]

D.C. police said July 8 they are baffled about the circumstances surrounding the death of a 7-year-old autistic boy whose body was found just a few yards from where he was lasted spotted July 7. The body of Michael Kingsbury, 7, was found in an abandoned vehicle in an alley behind his home 32 hours […]

A team from Howard University recently won first place in the 2013 Partnership for the Advancement of Collaborative Engineering and Education (PACE) Collaboration and Innovation Challenge. The team will travel to the 2013 PACE Annual Forum held July 21-26 to present their winning project and accept the award. The competition is an annual challenge aimed […]

District of Columbia police are increasingly relying on video footage pulled from the city’s network of surveillance cameras in criminal investigations, as officers identify more effective ways to deploy the devices and detectives find new uses for them. Investigators retrieved video from the Metropolitan Police Department’s 123 closed-circuit television cameras and the district’s network of […]

The death of Omar Sykes, a 22-year-old Howard University student who was the victim of an apparent robbery July 4, has rekindled safety concerns among residents of neighborhoods surrounding the sprawling inner city campus. “We all want to live in a peaceful and safe community,” said one unidentified resident of the 700 block of Fairmont […]

A 25-year-old Silver Spring man faces first-degree murder charges in connection with the stabbing death of his mother, police said. Fidel Washington was arrested June 28 and is being held without bail in the Montgomery County Detention Center after the body of Esperana Valle, 50, was discovered June 28 at about 8 a.m in the […]

On any given night, you can see the gray, furry, four-legged creatures on the prowl—from Georgetown to Shepherd Park to Capitol Hill to Anacostia. They skulk about dark alleys, lurk near puddles of dirty water, peep from underneath bushes, scratch their way into trash cans to feed on rubbish. “They travel 150 feet for food, […]

Many visitors have difficulty describing the emotion the chapel evokes. Some describe the peace they feel there, others the connection to history. For some, it is the most profound religious experience they can recall. Though the responses vary, each visitor seems to have one thing in common: They leave the Our Mother of Africa chapel […]

The Howard University School of Social Work has received a grant from the W. K. Kellogg Foundation to evaluate the effectiveness of racial equality standards in countering the overrepresentation of African Americans in child welfare systems. Ruby M. Gourdine, D.S.W., and Jacqueline M. Smith, Ph.D., are co-principal investigators on the $75,000 grant. The grant will […]