Category: Washington D.C. News

Local health advocates are calling on Washington, D.C. youth to participate in the 2012 International Conference on AIDS—or AIDS 2012—which will be held at the Washington Convention Center from July 23-27, 2012. President Barack Obama in 2010 lifted the HIV travel ban, allowing the global conference to be held in the United States for the […]

The District government has filed suit against 13 people who are believed to have fraudulently collected unemployment benefits, officials said. The lawsuit aims to recover between $4,320 to $13,790 from each person. The latest lawsuit is part of a crackdown that dates back to 2008. Since the investigation began, 61 people have been fired and […]

When the home of D.C. watchdog Dorothy Brizill and her husband Gary Imhoff burned to the ground last month, a committee of reporters, activists and government officials rose to the occasion. The committee launched a fundraising effort for the couple that has worked more than 30 years holding D.C. officials accountable. The two-alarm fire erupted […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The scandal-plagued D.C. Council has selected veteran legislator Phil Mendelson as its interim chairman. Mendelson replaces Kwame Brown, who pleaded guilty to bank fraud last week and resigned. Brown was the second councilmember to leave office in disgrace this year. The council voted unanimously Wednesday to install Mendelson as interim chairman. He’ll […]

University of Maryland School of Medicine Dean, E. Albert Reece, M.D., Ph.D., M.B.A., was recently named the 2012 winner of the prestigious Norbert Freinkel Lecture Award, presented by the American Diabetes Association (ADA). As this year’s honoree, Reece delivered the Norbert Freinkel Award Lecture at the association’s 72nd Scientific Sessions on June 10 in Philadelphia. […]

In response to Independence Day being the U.S. holiday when nearly 40-percent of all traffic deaths are alcohol-related, a local nonprofit group will be offering free cab rides to would-be drunk drivers throughout the Washington-metropolitan area this Fourth of July. Offered by the nonprofit Washington Regional Alcohol Program (WRAP), the Independence Day SoberRide program will […]

WASHINGTON– Howard University President Sidney A. Ribeau recently named Director of Howard University Cancer Center, Interim Deputy Provost for Health Sciences, and Howard alumnus Dr. Wayne A.I. Frederick (B.S. ’92, M.D. ’94, MBA ’11) Provost and Chief Academic Officer. The appointment is effective June 18, 2012. “A trusted leader, a revered expert in his field […]

(June 7, 2012) Washington D.C. Council Chairman Kwame R. Brown resigned his seat June 6 after he was charged with bank fraud for lying about his income on loan applications. Brown also faces a misdemeanor charge of making an unlawful cash campaign expenditure in connection with his 2008 re-election campaign for an at-large council seat. […]

(June 7, 2012) Mayor Vincent Gray has nominated three candidates for the District’s new Board of Ethics and Government Accountability. In a statement announcing the nominees June 5, Gray said all three have extensive experience in ethics and law. Former D.C. Attorney General Robert Spagnoletti was nominated to chair the panel, and Laura Richards, former Commodity […]

A House subcommittee has voted to fund several major budget priorities for Washington D.C., but extended a ban that prevents the District from spending its own funds on abortion services for low-income women. Once the bill, approved by the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government, clears the House it will go to […]

Haiti, still struggling two years after a devastating earthquake, is getting needed health care assistance from Howard University and U.S.-based Haitian immigrants, the university medical school announced June 1. A team of 25 physicians, dentists and medical students and 75 non-physician volunteers are heading to the island nation to provide medical care and clinical training […]