DC Superior Court Judge Judith Bartnoff says she'll issue a written ruling sometime next week on whether teachers in D.C. who were laid off, should be reinstated to their former positions. At an all day hearing, attorneys for the Washington Teachers Union said the almost 300 teachers and support...

Nidal Hasan, the alleged gunman in the Fort Hood shootings, had many connections to the D.C. area, and that has left many locals trying to reconcile what they knew of him with what happened--that includes those who gather at a Muslim community center Hasan frequented.

Dr. Asif Qadri, founde...

One of the District's most famous roads is getting a facelift: Pennsylvania Avenue. Some call it America's Main Street for the famous residence at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and for its role in parades, processions, and protests.

For years, District leaders, such as Mayor Adrian Fenty, have w...

By Elizabeth Wynne Johnson

Monday came and went without a Senate vote to extend unemployment benefits.

On Tuesday, Chairwoman Barbara Boxer gaveled the Senate environment committee to order--more precisely, the Democratic half of the committee. Republicans had decided to boycott the m...

A survey by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that in 2007, almost 15 percent of high school students in the District had missed at least one day of school within the previous month because they felt unsafe in the building or in transit- that's the highest rate in the nation....

The suspect in the Fort Hood shooting, Army Major Nidal Hasan, has roots in the Washington area.

Hasan was born in Arlington, Virginia and studied at Virginia Tech. He received his medical degree from the military's Uniformed Services University in Bethesda. For six years before reporting f...

Gov. Martin O'Malley has signed an executive order to enlist extra medical personnel to administer swine flu vaccinations, if needed.

The order will help boost emergency medical personnel and other licensed medical professionals who volunteer to be part of the state's swine flu response eff...

Smoking marijuana is more popular per capita in D.C. than other parts of the country and if you do smoke here, you're more likely to get busted.

The Marijuana Policy Project -- which supports the legalization of marijuana used data compiled by the Metropolitan Police Department.

Resea...

As co-founder of Gays and Lesbians Opposing Violence, Chris Farris tracks certain statistics from the Metropolitan Police Department.

"There was a 15 percent increase in hate crimes against the GLBT community from 2007 to 2008. If you stopped counting at the end of September of this year, t...

Whether it's tornadoes, fires or floods, a new natural disaster "toolkit" is helping artists prepare for emergencies.

In the words of Craig Nutt, "Emergency preparedness is possibly the only topic in the world that is both terrifying and boring."

So he and others with CERF -- the Craf...

In early October, a Kindergarten student boarded a bus he wasn't supposed to board and ended up wandering the streets alone and crying. Since then, bus drivers have left two other kindergarten students without their parents.

Superintendent Morton Sherman said he has asked bus drivers to sig...

Every few weeks we head out into the wilderness with naturalist Mark Garland. This time, we head to the top of the Chesapeake Bay. Speaking with David Furst, Mark focuses on the winged visitors returning after their summers in the Arctic.