ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) Floating wetlands, porous asphalt and living walls are some of the ideas that universities, federal laboratories and private companies are developing to restore the Chesapeake Bay. Those ideas and others are being presented today in Annapolis at a "Technologies That Can Save t...

By Jonathan Wilson

For five years, Immigrations and Customs Enforcement has been working closely with local police to target trans-national gangs, and this week, those efforts paid off in Fairfax County, Virginia, with the arrest of 30 suspected gang members and associates.

Scot Ritte...

By JIM KUHNHENN Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) Reveling in victory, President Barack Obama on Wednesday signed into law the most sweeping overhaul of financial regulations since the Great Depression, a package that aims to protect consumers and ensure economic stability from Main S...

By Matt Bush

Opponents of a proposed slot machine casino in Anne Arundel County Maryland are applauding a court decision reinstating a voter referendum on the measure this fall.

Maryland's highest court overturned a lower court ruling, allowing a voter referendum on whether a slots ca...

By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press Writer

McLEAN, Va. (AP) A Virginia man known for issuing an online warning that the creators of the "South Park" cartoon risked death by mocking the Prophet Muhammad has been charged with providing material support to the Somali terror organization known...

WASHINGTON (AP) Washington officials have posted mobile speed cameras to a dozen new sites in the last week, mostly in Southeast Washington. Critics say the new sites put the District on track to net $41 million from tickets.

WASHINGTON (AP) The Smithsonian's vast collection of 137 million...

By Sara Sciammocco

As he settles into his new role as chairman of an appropriations subcommittee, Congressman Jim Moran of Virginia, is visiting with employees of different federal agencies to discuss their work and priorities.

He held a town hall-style meeting at the EPA with Adminis...

From the Maryland Reporter website:

SLOTS REFERENDUM Maryland's highest court has issued an order allowing a referendum on the state's largest planned slots casino to move forward in Anne Arundel County, writes John Wagner for the Post. Liz Farmer of the Daily Record writes that the referen...

By Matt Bush

In Maryland, Montgomery County councilman Roger Berliner is defending his recent inquiries on the route of the proposed Purple Line.

Earlier this month, Berliner asked state transportation authorities whether the proposed light-rail line could be single tracked from Conne...

By Jonathan Wilson

Dane Hannum's backyard in Arlington, Virginia is buzzing. Hannum, who teaches classes through the beekeepers association of Northern Virginia, says in the past few years, the classes have attracted as many as 50 new beekeepers each.

"Right now it's on the upswing, w...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) Virginia's unemployment rate in June increased from the previous month but was the same as the June 2009 rate. The Virginia Employment Commission reported yesterday that the unadjusted rate was 7.1 percent last month, up from 6.9 percent in May.

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) Dom...

(July 21-September 12) IT FIGURES The National Museum of Women in the Arts has been on the prowl, gathering its 2010 selection of women to watch during the exhibit Body of Work: New Perspectives on Figure Painting. Eight artists take a modern approach from a different point of view when painting...

By Rebecca Blatt

Maryland's Gov. Martin O'Malley and Delaware's Gov. Jack Markell are asking President Obama for help in developing wind energy resources off the Mid-Atlantic coast.

In a letter to the president this morning, O'Malley and Markell ask Mr. Obama to direct federal agencie...

By Sabri Ben-Achour

Typically unsellable produce from grocery stores and warehouses in the D.C. region is shipped off to get composted as far away as Delaware. One group wants to keep that waste to fuel urban agriculture here.

Just inside the beltway, in College Park Maryland, a small...

By Bill Redlin

The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating how a United Airlines jetliner traveling from Washington to Los Angeles hit severe turbulence injuring at least 22 people.

Tuesday's flight out of Dulles Airport is the airline's third one this year in which pass...

By Kavitha Cardoza

Traffic in the Washington area consistently ranks among the worst in the country. Well, the 2010 State of the Commute survey is due out today and it looks at where people are commuting from and how they decide to get where they're going.

Ronald Sowell lives in Fredr...

By Rebecca Blatt

Johns Hopkins Medicine says it is integrating a children's hospital in St. Petersburg, Florida into its network of medical facilities.

The plan is for All Children's Hospital and Health Center to join the Hopkins Health System later this year. Both parties have signed...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) Floating wetlands, porous asphalt and living walls are some of the ideas that universities, federal laboratories and private companies are developing to restore the Chesapeake Bay. Those ideas and others are being presented today in Annapolis at a "Technologies That Can Save t...