Category: Washington D.C. News

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former D.C. Councilmember Michael A. Brown has dropped out of the race to rejoin the council. Brown announced late Tuesday that he was ending his campaign for “personal and family” reasons. He said in a statement that the issues require his “immediate attention” but did not elaborate further. Brown, a Democrat, was […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Metro is spending millions of dollars to triple the number of video cameras it has monitoring its stations and parking garages, and to put cameras in rail cars for the first time. The agency plans to increase the number of cameras it uses to watch for crime and security threats from 1,900 […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House, busy with its annual Easter Egg Roll, also managed to pull off an April Fools’ prank. The White House Twitter account announced earlier Monday to be on the lookout for a “special video message from the president.” Instead, viewers got a surprise visitor to the press briefing room. The […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Eugene Freeman, 30, of Temple Hills, Md., has been sentenced by D.C. Superior Court Judge Florence Pan to 13 years in  prison March 29 for repeatedly stabbing in a single attack a man who was dating his ex-girlfriend, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced today. The sentence follows a December 2012 […]

Chabeli Arroyo was the grand prize winner of this year’s DC-CAPital Stars Talent Competition.  The event was held at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on March 26.  A panel of celebrity judges, along with help from the audience selected the first, second and third place winners who received DC-CAP college scholarships. […]

On April 12 and 13, the Howard University Department of Theatre Arts Dance Program will host its end- of-the-year Spring Dance Concert in the Ira Aldridge Theater. The production will celebrate the many faces and voices of dance through African, Jazz, Hip Hop, Modern and Ballet styles. In addition, there will be numerous guest artists […]

Empower DC, a grassroots community activist group, went to D.C. Superior Court March 29 to try to block D.C. Schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson’s plan to close 15 schools by 2014. The suit, filed on behalf of four parents of D.C. schools students, alleges that the school closings are a violation of civil rights and equal […]

The District of Columbia’s fire chief apologized March 28 for recent failures that led to slow ambulance response times and for failing to maintain accurate information about the readiness of the department’s fleet, but he insisted that the department has the resources it needs to handle major emergencies. Two D.C. council members said that they […]

Howard University underclassmen housing is set to receive an expansive upgrade. Thanks to a partnership with student housing company Campus Apartments, the university will debut two modern living-learning facilities by August 2014, according to a statement. The $107 million project will include two-person semi-suites designed to serve the University’s underclassmen population, as well as communal […]