News Archive - August 26, 2009

Senator Kennedy's fight for D.C. Voting Rights

Edward Kennedy was the Senator from Massachusetts for nearly half a century. Although he worked for the people of the commonwealth, his commitment to citizens of D.C. was just as important.

If you want to know how much Ted Kennedy cared about D.C. and its people, just talk to anyone involve...

Kennedy As AIDS Crusader in the Early Years of the Epidemic

Senator Ted Kennedy is being remembered as a champion for human rights, including for those in the gay and lesbian communities.

Joe Solmonese knew the Senator as a resident of Massachusetts, a fellow dog walker at the local dog park, and as President of the Human Rights Campaign. "There is...

Johns Hopkins Sued For Tens of Millions By Former Surgical Resident

A former surgical resident has sued Johns Hopkins Hospital, saying he was fired for refusing to lie on a survey that could have damaged the hospital's reputation.

Dr. Oscar Serrano claims that surgical residents were coached on how to respond to a survey by the Accreditation Council for Gra...

Web Extra: Mikulski on Kennedy, An Interview With Maryland's Senior Senator

Senator Ted Kennedy was a champion of affordable healthcare. Maryland Senator Barbara Mikulski hopes his legacy lives on, as the healthcare debate rages on.

Hours after Kennedy's death was announced, WAMU's Rebecca Sheir spoke with Mikulski, who collaborated with the late Massachusetts sena...

Thousands for Healthcare at Town Hall in Reston

Last night in Virginia, nearly 3,000 people crowded into a high school gymnasium for a healthcare town hall meeting co-hosted by Congressman Jim Moran, and former Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean.

Most people in the long lines that developed outside South Lakes High School in R...

Wounded Photographer Arrives At Baltimore Rehab Center

An Associated Press photographer injured by a bomb in Afghanistan has arrived at a Baltimore rehabilitation center.

Emilio Morenatti was wounded two weeks ago when his vehicle ran over a bomb in southern Afghanistan. His left foot was amputated at the University of Maryland Medical Center S...

Maryland Senator Remembers Kennedy

Senator Ted Kennedy was a champion of affordable healthcare. As Rebecca Sheir reports, Maryland Senator Barbara Mikulski hopes his legacy lives on, as the healthcare debate rages on.

Mikulski collaborated with Kennedy to establish an Office of Women's Health at the National Institutes of He...

"Art Beat" with Stephanie Kaye - Wednesday, August 26, 2008

(August 26) LOGGINS & MESSINA The country music duo Loggins & Messina performs at Wolf Trap's Filene Center in Vienna, Virginia with The Gabe Dixon Band tonight at 8. The twosome topped the charts with "Your Mama Don't Dance" and became one of the most successful groups of the 70s with a...

Aftermath Of High School Fight Stokes Racial Tensions In Prince William County

The fight happened sometime after school in late May. Eight Forest Park High School students were involved: six were African-Americans, the other two were white. After the fight, school officials expelled the black students.

Outside Forest Park on a recent stormy afternoon, the mother of tw...

AP Source: Kennedy to be buried at Arlington

By LAURIE KELLMAN Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) A Democratic source familiar with the planning says Sen. Edward M. Kennedy is to lie in repose at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston before his funeral at a city church. Kennedy will be buried at Arlington...

Coalition for Coal By-Product Asking for Funding

Virginia Tech wants $290 million in federal stimulus money to capture and store carbon dioxide from a new power plant in Virginia. If approved, the government money would pay half the cost of the project.

The new Dominion Virginia Power plant is being built in southwestern Wise County. The...

King Memorial A Year and a Half Away

Friday is the 46th Anniversary of the March on Washington and Martin Luther King Junior's famous "I Have a Dream" speech. Fundraisers for a memorial to King on the National Mall say they're very close to beginning construction.

Right off of Independence Avenue, in a shaded spot overlooking...

The Eleventh Hour: D.C. Connection to Senator Kennedy's Endorsement of President Obama

One of the Senator's last and some might argue most memorable presentations was right here at American University.

It was late January 2008. Hungry for a high profile endorsement, candidate Barack Obama's team hoped for any sign of blessing from Senator Ted Kennedy....so did Obama's oppone...

New Battles in Virginia's Civil War Fields

After a recent decision to allow a Wal-Mart Supercenter to be built near a Civil War battlefield, preservationists remain up in arms.

Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant first met at Wilderness Battlefield 145 years ago. Now, protestors want to battle local officials who have decided to allo...

School Regions Brace For Impact Of Swine Flu

School systems around the Washington region are bracing for the impact of swine flu this school year. Kathleen Black is the principal at H.D. Cooke Elementary School in Northwest D.C. These days, educators shoulder a number of responsibilities, but they now face a new challenge: the H1N1 virus or...

Political Leaders Remember The Late Senator Ted Kennedy

Leaders around the country and the world are lionizing Kennedy today as one of America's most influential public figures.

Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.)says that she has known Kennedy since the 1960s. She was invited to testify before the Senate Subcommittee on Aging, which Kennedy chaired....

Alexandria Names New Top Cop

Alexandria leaders have chosen a replacement for David Baker, the police chief who resigned after a drunk driving arrest.

As a child in a public-housing complex in Old Town Alexandria, Earl Cook grew up directly across the street from the headquarters of the Alexandria Police Department. No...

D.C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton Calls Kennedy "Washington's Senator"

D.C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes-Norton remembers the man known as Lion of the Senate as a tireless advocate for equality.

Norton says that Ted Kennedy was as close to irreplaceable as you can get. And she says - in particular -- he was a champion for Washingtonians. Though he technically rep...

Virginia High School Seniors Score Above National Average on Some Portions

The College Board, which administers the national SAT tests, said today that Virginia high school seniors scored above the national average in reading and writing, but a little below the national average on the mathematics portion of the college-entrance exam.

Bill Redlin reports...

D.C. Remembers Senator Ted Kennedy

Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy's death came as Congress was in recess. Even on a quiet summer morning in the district, signs of his death were everywhere.

Senator Kennedy's roots in D.C. went deep. For about the last decade, Senator Kennedy lived at this stately cream-colored two-story...

Opposition For Montgomery County Police Choppers Grows

There's growing opposition to a proposal for a helicopter unit for Montgomery County police. Council President Phil Andrews is citing budget issues as the main reason he and council are against a grant application to the federal government that would cover only a portion of the cost for two polic...