WASHINGTON (AP) Police in Washington arrested a man for trespassing in the National Zoo's elephant enclosure. The elephant area is closed for a major renovation, but the man entered the space Saturday. A zoo spokesman says the elephants were outside at the time in another area.

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In 1968 the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders published what was known as the Kerner Report. The report described a nation "moving toward two societies-one black, one white-separate and unequal" and warned of consequences of failing to address racial inequalities.

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By Jessica Gould

Tonight, 10 of the District’s most talented teens will compete for thousands of dollars in college scholarship money.

Brittany Timmons is a senior at McKinley Technology High School in Northeast D.C. She says she’s got a lot on her mind these days.

"Knowing that...

By Cathy Duchamp

Catholic school managers in Baltimore will hold public meetings this week on a reorganization plan that calls for closing 13 schools run by the Archdiocese. Higher costs and falling enrollment get the blame. But many parents question the math behind the plan.

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HERNDON, Va. (AP) Plans for dense, walkable development around a planned Metro station could be complicated by wetlands in the area.

The Sunrise Valley Wetlands are located within a quarter-mile of the future Herndon-Monroe station, a planned stop along the rail extension to Dulles Internat...

By Meymo Lyons

A federal job fair at the Stafford campus of the University of Mary Washington has backed up traffic as thousands of jobseekers flocked to the event.

Sponsored by Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), the job fair had attracted nearly 4,000 people by noon on Monday and job seekers...

From the Maryland Reporter website:

Today's roundup features a strange alliance on Sen. Barbara Mikulski's re-election bid, a smaller November advantage for O'Malley, and the deadline for bills in the General Assembly is today.

MIKULSKI Paul West of The Sun finds that advocates in Ala...

By Matt Bush

The D.C. region's economic outlook is improving, according to one company that monitors hiring by businesses.

Twenty-three percent of companies in the region interviewed by Manpower Incorporated plan on hiring new employees from April to June, compared to just three perce...

BALTIMORE (AP) Authorities have agreed to settle a 26-year-old lawsuit that accused Baltimore public schools of denying essential services to special education students. The preliminary deal would end court oversight of the city's special ed program and resolve the suit within two years.

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