Category: Washington D.C. News

The 21st Annual Capital Jazz Fest 2013, featuring a variety of soul and jazz acts powered into Columbia’s Merriweather Post Pavilion June 7 – 9, drawing thousands of music fans from across the nation who came to enjoy hours of outdoor musical entertainment. The event featured more than 30 acts on two large stages:  The […]

Ward 5 residents have had enough. With five medical marijuana cultivation centers and one dispensary already approved for location in their neighborhoods along the northeast edge of the city, the residents said they have accommodated their fair share. In the course of approving the first licenses, officials did not pay enough attention to residents’ concerns, […]

D.C. Councilwoman Anita Bonds (D-At Large) has introduced legislation to ease the economic lot of seniors in the District. “In my moving around talking to constituents, particularly aging persons, they pointed out how difficult it was to make ends meet…and how precious their homes are to them. A light bulb went off and I thought […]

Four days after a fire devastated Frager’s Hardware, the historic store reopened at a nearby site that served as a temporary location for Eastern Market after that business was devastated by fire. Fragers, located at 1115 Pennsylvania Avenue, was feted at a ceremony that included Mayor Vincent Gray and Rep. Eleanor Homes Norton (D-D.C.). A […]

Investigators from the D.C. Fire Department, Metropolitan Police Department and federal Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives are probing the gutted shell of a Capitol Hill landmark to determine what started a four-alarm fire at Frager’s Hardware that sent clouds of black smoke into the air in D.C. June 5. Scores of firefighters worked for hours […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former District of Columbia Councilmember Michael Brown has been charged with bribery and has told associates that he plans to plead guilty. Prosecutors on Friday accused Brown of accepting $55,000 from undercover FBI agents posing as businessmen seeking preferred treatment from the government. The charge carries a maximum prison sentence of 15 […]

Howard University Middle School of Mathematics and Science (MS)² teacher Florentia Spires was recently selected as one of the 22 Albert Einstein Fellows for 2013-14. As a fellow, Spires has been assigned to work full time at the National Science Foundation where she will review K-12 educational policy. This is Spires’ second year as a […]

Friendship Schools broke ground May 30 on expansion of the Friendship Technology Preparatory Academy to make way for the addition of eleventh and twelfth grade classes at the Southeast Washington facility. Opened in 2009, Technology Preparatory Academy currently serves students in the sixth through tenth grades. After the scheduled completion of construction in August 2014, […]

African-American federal judge Robert L. Wilkins has been nominated to join the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit regarded as one of the most important federal appellate courts in the nation and a stepping stone to the Supreme Court. President Obama on June 4 nominated Wilkins, a judge on the U.S. […]

An Arlington County, Va. Sheriff’s Deputy has been arrested for allegedly shooting an Alexandria man following an off-duty argument. Craig Patterson, 44, of Fredericksburg, Va. faces charges of first-degree murder and using a handgun in the commission of a felony, according to The Alexandria Times. He is being held without bond following an arraignment May […]

Montgomery County, Md. sisters Holly “HollyHood” Veney, 30, and Tiffany “Muhla Green” Harris, 25, are ready to make history with their new sketch comedy series, “The Show.” The pair, who are full of shenanigans and inside jokes, will be America’s first cast of an all-black female sketch comedy show. Their half-hour long program is a […]