In an unprecedented situation, the D.C. Council will select an interim member to serve until a special election is held. How exactly to proceed is causing infighting. Trent Holbrook, 40, who plans to ...

Montgomery County Public Schools Superintendent Thomas Taylor says the district is still working to address past mistakes and financial management issues. The Justice Department said a in-state ...

Richard Smallwood, a gospel singer and recording artist nominated eight times for Grammy Awards, has died. He was 77. Smallwood died Tuesday of complications of kidney failure at a rehabilitation and ...

A Latvian computer programmer was sentenced to 14 years in prison for designing a program that helped hackers improve malware — including some used in the 2013 Target breach. Ruslan Bondars, a 37-year ...

Metro is rolling out new ways for people to store their bikes amid a push to get more riders cycling to train stops. The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority installed the first of 450 new ...

The two-room schoolhouse sat deep in rural Virginia in 1956, at the height of segregation. The temperature dwindled to single digits. Ethel Rae Stewart Smith, who taught two dozen black children in ...

The music stopped as the mayor made her way across the stage, past bongo drums and keyboards, timbales and amps. But Muriel E. Bowser wasn’t ready to let the beat die just yet. “When I say ‘go-go,’ ” ...

Rain or shine, there will be cake, and on Wednesday, huddling underneath umbrellas, the group of labor rights activists carried their latest to Sen. Mark R. Warner’s doorstep in Alexandria, Va. It was ...

For about two hours, Bikers for Trump blared twangy southern rock from a stage near Judiciary Square, showing support for the new president as participants in the Women’s March made their way back ...

Cowboy boot-wearing D.C. real estate magnate Douglas Jemal was among those pardoned by President Donald Trump late Tuesday, absolving him of a 2006 conviction for wire fraud. Jemal, 79, is one of the ...

Two of the nation’s largest e-scooter companies are facing more backlash — this time in the form of mass tort lawsuits filed in California. The separate complaints against Lime and Bird allege that ...

The Fairfax County judge told the girl who sat sobbing in his courtroom Monday that she had been victimized twice — once by the man who had sexually abused her for years and a second time by the ...