Victim Identified in Fa...

Police on Friday identified released the identity of a transgender person who was fatally stabbed last week near a Metrobus stop on East Capitol Street NE and also released video from a nearby traffic camera depicting an individual who is being described as a “person of...

Photo of the Day: Febru...

The title of this image indicates that this photo was taken on 14th Street, which can only lead us to ask, what on earth is happening here? Did Atreyu get his horse out of the Swamp of Sadness and bring it to D.C.? Does this woman think she is Princess Buttercup? If we learned anything...

Occupy D.C.’s Law...

The lawyer who has represented Occupy D.C. in federal court in previous appeals for the protest group to stay at McPherson Square said he’ll “be filing some paperwork” in the wake of U.S. Park Police making an exhaustive sweep of the park to enforce the ban on camping...

Norton Thanks Both Prot...

On a day in which U.S. Park Police methodically inspected the Occupy D.C. encampment in McPherson Square for violations of no-camping rules, tension could often be felt between police and protesters. But for D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, the day evolved better than could have been...

Police Move Against Occ...

Early this morning U.S. Park Police moved into the Occupy D.C. encampment in McPherson Square and removed the “Tent of Dreams,” a tarp that had hung from the statue of Gen. James McPherson since Monday. They also set up barricades and told protesters that they would be...

Judge Orders Park Servi...

A federal judge said today that if the National Park Service decides to close McPherson Square, it needs to give Occupy D.C. enough time to mount a legal response. Still, he shot down a request that U.S. Park Police be forbidden from enforcing anti-camping rules. [ more › ] Continued...

D.C. Among Terrorism &#...

No real surprise here — according to a report from a terrorism research institute at the University of Maryland, the District came in fifth on a list of terrorism “hot spots” across the country, having been targeted 79 times from 1970 to 2008. [ more › ] View...

U.S. Park Police Tell O...

A day after protesters at the Occupy D.C. encampment at McPherson Square dropped a massive tarp over the statue of Gen. James McPherson in protest of a planned enforcement of anti-camping regulations, the U.S. Park Police have asked occupiers to remove it . [ more › ] Go here to see...

Scare Force One Tames D...

                                          Nearly 2,500 fans enjoyed another action-packed display at the Armory Saturday afternoon as the DC Rollergirls ‘ home teams played out...

The Global Push for Dig...

Francis Fukuyama, Foreign Policy The legend now has it that the Arab Spring was kicked off in early 2011 when a Tunisian vegetable seller, Mohamed Bouazizi, had his fruit cart confiscated by the police. Slapped and insulted by a policewoman, he went to complain but was repeatedly ignored....