Category: Washington D.C. News

It’s dusk on a summer Friday and a misty rain has slowed pedestrian traffic on U Street, NW. But though walkers are few, most of the trendy bars and restaurants on the street are packed. At Indulj, a restaurant and lounge near the corner of 12th Street, the tables are full and the bar is […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — More than 1,000 people marched through downtown Washington on July 22 to call attention to the ongoing struggle against HIV and AIDS, the subject of an international conference beginning held in the nation’s capital. Organizers said the aim of the “Keep the Promise” march was to remind world leaders and policymakers that […]

On Friday, July 27th, Adams Morgan will celebrate the completion of the 18th Street Streetscape project that remade the commercial corridor between Columbia Road NW and Florida Ave NW. DC Mayor Vincent C. Gray along with Ward 1 Councilmember Jim Graham will join business owners and residents to commemorate the largest public investment ever made […]

The Silver Spring Library is celebrating summer with a used book sale and free family-friendly programs on August 11. The used book sale will run from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. and will include thousands of titles in categories such as fiction, history, art, mysteries, romance, literature, cooking, biography, children’s and manga, Japanese comics. Hardbacks […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — William Raspberry, who became the second black columnist to win a Pulitzer Prize for his widely read syndicated commentaries in The Washington Post, died Tuesday. He was 76. Raspberry had prostate cancer and died at his home in Washington, his wife, Sondra Raspberry, told The Post. A Post spokeswoman confirmed his death. […]

Pepco is still in the hot seat over how one of the region’s principal electric power providers responded to massive power outages throughout the Metropolitan Washington area in the wake of a violent summer storm June 29. If a July 13 hearing conducted by the D.C. Council is any indicator, Pepco executives will be sweating […]

Ed Ellis of Temple Hills said when both he and his mother were issued speeding tickets in Washington D.C. while driving downhill, it wasn’t the $150 fines that bothered him as much as the unfair location of the speed camera—at the bottom of a hill on Branch Avenue. The problem is, according to Ellis, that […]

With temperature forecasts in the upper-90s to 100° this week, and a heat index of over 100° F, Montgomery County health officials are encouraging residents to find places where they can stay cool and to take precautions to avoid heat-related illnesses.  Most at risk are young children, the elderly, and people with health problems such […]

The Center for Business Inclusion and Diversity recently honored 100 minority and women-owned businesses as top companies for the mid-Atlantic Region in 2012 at a luncheon in Adelphi. Produced in conjunction with The Pinder Group, LLC and greiBO media, the banquet brought together minority and women entrepreneurs at the Marriott Inn and Conference Center on […]

Twenty years after he retired as head administrator of the Metropolitan Police Department, Isaac Fulwood Jr. is still known around Washington D.C. as “Chief.” These days, instead of supervising thousands of police officers, he serves as chairman of the U.S. Parole Commission. Always passionate about keeping youth out of trouble, he has mentored teenage boys […]

They came out early on the Fourth of July—men, women and children, many dressed in patriotic red, white and blue. Before the parade, barbecue and fireworks, they gathered at the National Archives in Northwest Washington to kick off the holiday with a reading of the Declaration of Independence by four descendants of original signers. But […]

As fireworks lit up the sky over the nation’s capital on Independence Day, D.C. police combed two neighborhoods in Northwest Washington investigating shootings that left two people dead and six injured. The first incident occurred just after 8 p.m. in the 5000 block of First Street, NW. Police who responded to a call for shots […]