WASHINGTON (AP) More than 100 D.C. child welfare workers have been laid off. The Child and Family Services Agency announced the cuts to workers at a meeting yesterday.

WASHINGTON (AP) The head of Washington's emergency medical services says he's reinforcing a basic policy after the death of...

By VERENA DOBNIK Associated Press Writer

NEW YORK (AP) The bomb squad of the New York Police Department says a suspicious cooler in Times Square is not a threat. Streets have been reopened to traffic.

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The U.S. Interior Department is indefinitely suspending the remaining public hearings on the proposed sale of oil and gas leases off Virginia. The Department's Minerals Management Service says it is postponing the public comment period while it focuses on the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

(May 8) FRENCH CANADA’S FOLK French Canadian hockey players may be in the District's penalty box, but that's no reason to rebuff its folk. Quebec's beloved traditional troupe Le Vent du Nord presents what is most likely your only opportunity to see someone play a hurdy-gurdy this week at the Blac...

NEW YORK (AP) Police have cleared streets around Times Square after finding a cooler left on a sidewalk on the same block where a failed car bomb was found over the weekend.

NYPD spokesman Paul Browne says police have created some distance between the cooler and people. He says they are "in...

By David Schultz

One train was traveling toward the Forest Glen Metro Station Wednesday afternoon, while another train was stopped at the platform in front of it, unloading passengers. A Metro spokesperson says the operator of the moving train slammed on his emergency brake, because he noti...

By Connie Benesh

A group of local high school students from Leesburg, Virginia will walk tomorrow to raise money to help build wells in West Africa. The Annual Walk for Water is in its seventh year now and has raised over $200,000.

"We’ve already put in 20 wells thus far and we are tr...

By Kavitha Cardoza

Thousands of teachers are being honored this week as part of National Teacher Appreciation Week. At one classroom in D.C., education is a family affair.

Juanita Stokes, sings with her Pre-K class at Payne Elementary School in Southeast. Stokes has been teaching for...

The volatility that hit the stock market yesterday could have been prevented if proper safeguards were put in place.

James Angel is an Associate Professor of Business at Georgetown University. He says the current safety net set up by the Securities and Exchange Commission actually exacerbat...

By Jessica Gould

Yasmine Arrington's father has spent her whole life in and out of jail. And she says growing up without a male role model has been tough.

"I've had to learn how to deal with the opposite sex, from being a teacher to having a relationship. It's been a little more diffi...

By Meymo Lyons

The ringleader of a mortgage fraud scheme involving dozens of homes in Northern Virginia and losses of more than $9 million has been sentenced to five years in prison.

Real estate agent Ruben Rojas led a criminal enterprise that resulted in 20 arrests last year. Police...

By Matt Bush

Nearly a year later, authorities have yet to determine whether a massive fire at a former sanitarium in Rockville, Maryland was arson. The Chestnut Lodge had been unoccupied for several years when it was destroyed by fire last June. The damage estimate was more than $7 million...

SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) Maryland-National Capital Park Police officers arrested five people after they came across the group camping in the woods in Silver Spring with BB guns, combat training manuals, wilderness survival handbooks and heroin. Officers investigating an abandoned motorcycle near t...