The Annual Suntrust National Marathon will cause some traffic glitches in the District on Saturday.

Streets will begin closing at 6:45 a.m. as runners line up at RFK Stadium. Once they set off, the race course snakes through six of the District's eight wards along its 26-mile route.

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BALTIMORE (AP) A Navy hospital ship returns home to Baltimore today after a two-month mission to earthquake-stricken Haiti. The Navy says the USNS Comfort will arrive at Canton Pier at 10 a.m. The nearly 900-foot floating hospital left Baltimore Jan. 16 and began treating patients off the coast o...

By Jonathan Wilson

A class of young drivers in Fairfax, Virginia will get a chance this weekend to learn lessons rarely covered in Drivers' Ed.

Officer Michelle Humphries has been teaching the "Youthful Drivers" course for years and she says the mood at the start of the day is always...

A final vote on President Obama's healthcare overhaul is expected Sunday. Virginia was the first legislative body to pass a law making mandated health insurance illegal and Ken Cuccinelli says he's ready to file legal action if the bill passes.

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) A new study suggests that menhaden -- the oily, nearly inedible fish -- may not have the pollution-fighting power in the Chesapeake Bay that scientists had once thought. The fish are key links in the bay's food chain. For years, it was thought that menhaden also helped by filte...

State lawmakers in Maryland are backing tax breaks for residents who buy electric vehicles. The tax exemptions are capped at $2000 and limited to one per person or 10 per business.

The goal is to get more environmentally-friendly cars on the road by defraying the up-front cost of electric v...

BALTIMORE (AP) Nine people have been indicted on charges of smuggling 120,000 pairs of counterfeit Nike shoes and half a million counterfeit Coach handbags through the Port of Baltimore.

According to the 72-count federal indictment announced Friday, undercover officers infiltrated the massi...

Cell phones are among the hottest contraband items in prison these days, with some inmates paying more for cell phones than for heroin. Maryland has recently received federal approval to test cell phone jamming the devices as one strategy for controlling the problem.

Lydia Wilson reports, t...

By Natalie Neumann

Metro has fired a bus driver who was caught texting by a passenger who posted pictures on a blog.

In the cell phone pictures uploaded on the Unsuck DC Metro blog the driver is caught tapping away on a cell phone with her left hand while holding on to the oversized s...

(March 19) LUNA NEGRA Cuban dance, culture, and composition coalesce in Danzon at the Music Center at Strathmore in North Bethesda tonight at 8. The alchemy of Cuban composer Paquito D'Rivera, the Turtle Island Quartet and the Luna Negra Dance Theatre bring their innovative jazz moves and sounds...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) Two environmental groups are challenging Virginia's legal action to block federal regulation of greenhouse gases.

The Southern Environmental Law Center on behalf of Wetlands Watch filed a motion with the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington late Thursday supporting the Env...

By Meymo Lyons

In Maryland, educators and police may soon be required to share more information about students who may be involved in gang activity.

The bill passed despite cries from privacy advocates concerned that good students could get a bad name.

The House of Delegates vot...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) A Senate committee has approved cutting about 500 mostly vacant state jobs, and the panel moved ahead with a plan to start shifting some teacher pension costs to counties.

The Senate Budget and Taxation Committee made the decisions as it passed the panel's changes to Gov...