Tebow-Inspired Home-Sch...

Home-schooled students in Virginia won’t be able to follow Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow’s example for another year, as the Senate voted today to kill legislation that would have allowed them to join public school sports teams. [ more › ] Original...

Capitol Hemp Stops Sell...

Looking for a copy of Andrew Sullivan’s “The Cannabis Closet”? You’re not going to find it at Adams Morgan’s Capitol Hemp, which stopped selling books on drugs and the drug war over fears that they could be used to justify another police raid. [ more › ]...

D.C.: 24th-Tier Snow Ci...

When it comes to winter weather, we’re a 24th-tier city. We’re certainly not complaining. [ more › ] Originally posted here:  D.C.: 24th-Tier Snow...

Supreme Justice: Man Ac...

Police on the Caribbean island of Nevis have detained a man in connection to the robbery of Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer last week, reports CNN. [ more › ] Originally posted here: Supreme Justice: Man Accused of Robbing Jurist Stephen Breyer...

No Foul Play in Death N...

Police are investigating after a man’s body was found dead Sunday morning just off the National Mall near the bank of the Potomac River. [ more › ] Original post:  No Foul Play in Death Near National Mall, Police...

Photo of the Day: Febru...

Photo of the Day: Windy weather? Go fly a kite. [ more › ] See the original post here:  Photo of the Day: February 12,...

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...