Category: Washington D.C. News

In an effort to help close a budget gap for fiscal year 2012, the District of Columbia Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) will hike its fees for many of its routine transactions, including duplicate licenses and temporary ID cards. Beginning Oct. 1, District residents will pay more than double for a duplicate driver’s license or […]

Twenty years ago, Troy Anthony Davis was sentenced to death row in Georgia for the fatal shooting of a Caucasian police officer, Mark MacPhail in Savannah. On Monday, the State Board of Pardons and Paroles in Georgia will hold a clemency hearing for Davis, who faces execution by legal injection on Wednesday. The fight for […]

Whether they drive luxury cars or clunkers, motorists around the world are supposed to give up their wheels Sept. 22 for alternative transportation during World Car Free Day. Apparently the move toward sustainability has garnered a pledge by more than 8,000 D.C. residents who will opt for walking, biking or public transportation for their daily […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Actress Hayden Panettiere was born and raised in upstate New York, lives in Los Angeles and has no roots in the nation’s capital. But she’s passionate about securing full representation in Congress for District of Columbia residents. That’s what led Panettiere to the John A. Wilson Building, the district’s city hall, where […]

A commemorative event to honor the District’s victims of the Sept. 11 attacks, evolved into a peace movement, as well as an effort to ensure that the slain are never forgotten. Betty Carter, grandmother of Leckie Elementary School student Bernard Brown, was seeking an official recognition of her grandson and one of his teachers. “We […]

WASHINGTON — For Esther Agbaje, coping with the day-to-day pain caused by sickle cell anemia has been a constant struggle. The sickle-shaped cells caused by the disease make the blood unable to pass smoothly through blood vessels, which can lead to damaged tissues and organs, severe pain, stroke or even death. “Any number of triggers […]

The National Capital Region Transportation Planning Board (TPB) is encouraging Washington area Hispanic residents to participate in its 2011-2012 Household Travel Survey. The survey collects and analyzes daily travel behavior from nearly 5,000 households within geographic sub areas in the District of Columbia, Suburban Maryland and Northern Virginia. Spanish-language speakers were underrepresented in the previous […]

Don D. Davis, 42, a homeowner in Ward 8, has been unemployed about a year and a half. Hopeful that a job fair hosted by U.S. Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton would be different from the others he had attended, he prayed it would be so. Norton’s job fair which billed more than 100 employers drew […]

“Where I come from it was a struggle. My story is a success story. Really, I could either be in prison or dead. The fact that God saved me and saved me for something bigger, my job is to make things better for people.” When Richard Johnson speaks, people listen. The 48-year-old restaurant owner doesn’t […]

The 2008 presidential election had the second-largest turnout of young voters in American history. Between 22 and 24 million young people voted, according to the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE). As the presidential election in 2012 approaches, speculations are arising that youth turnout will be significantly lower than in […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The D.C. Board of Elections is investigating Mayor Vincent Gray’s new deputy chief of staff for voting in the district last year when she lived in Maryland. The voting irregularities by Andi Pringle were revealed Thursday by activist Dorothy Brizill on the website dcwatch.com. Brizill filed a formal complaint Friday, challenging the […]