WASHIGTON (AP) Metro fares are changing this weekend. Beginning on Sunday, Metrorail customers who use a paper ticket will pay 25 cents more per trip than customers who use a plastic SmarTrip card.

WASHINGTON (AP) The head of the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center is leaving her position overseein...

(July 29) ARIEL PINK'S HAUNTED GRAFFITI Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti is an analog band trying to make it in a digital world. The lo-fi Los Angeles-based pop-rockers spend the evening at the Rock N Roll Hotel tonight, on H Street in Northeast D.C.

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From the National Weather Service:

A severe thunderstorm watch has been issued until 7 p.m. Showers and thunderstorms are expected this afternoon, with damaging winds possible.

Heat indexes will increase to at or just above 100 degrees into the afternoon hours across southern Maryland...

By Elliott Francis

Lt Col.Spann Watson, one of 160 original black World War II fighter pilots known as the Tuskegee Airmen, will be buried in Arlington National Cemetery this morning. He died in April.

Spann Watson was just 10-years old in 1927 when his love of flying began. His son,...

By Manuel Quinones

A top Democrat says as many as 6,600 graves could be unmarked or mislabeled at Arlington National Cemetery because workers didn’t do their jobs properly. The new estimate was revealed at a Senate oversight hearing and is much higher than previous numbers.

Missouri S...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) A September execution has been set for Virginia's only woman on death row. A Pittsylvania County Circuit judge set a Sept. 23 execution for 40-year-old Teresa Lewis today. She was sentenced to death for plotting to have her husband and stepson killed in 2002 so she could collec...

SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) Commuter rail service in the Silver Spring area has been halted after a storm moved through the region, bringing down power lines and trees along the tracks.

MARC says a train is stopped west of the Silver Spring station. Maryland Transit Administration spokesman Dav...

From the Maryland Reporter website:

ENVIRO BRAWL Maryland's two leading candidates for governor -- incumbent Martin O'Malley and former gov Bob Ehrlich -- slammed one another over their environmental records and diverting funds from two programs, Julie Bykowicz reports for the Baltimore Sun...

By David Schultz

Metro's track circuits are being blamed for last year's deadly Red Line crash, and the company that designed the circuits says it's working with its clients across the country to make sure the crash doesn't happen again.

SEPTA, the public transportation agency in Phil...

By Rebecca Blatt

A grand jury in Prince George's County, Maryland has handed down an indictment in the slaying of a Maryland state trooper in June.

Anthony Milton II, 28, is charged with first degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder, as well as weapons charges in the death of M...

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) Two people are in custody after an alleged armed robbery and police chase in Virginia that ended in Alexandria's city hall.

Police say the chase began at about 8 p.m. Wednesday when the two men allegedly robbed a Best Western hotel in Arlington. The suspects were chased...

By Michael Pope

Despite a ruling that puts a hold on Arizona's controversial new immigration crackdown, one Virginia politician is trying to push similar legislation in Richmond.

Prince William County Board of Supervisors Corey Stewart says he agrees with the federal judge who blocked...

BALTIMORE (AP) A Baltimore man accused of first-degree murder in the stabbing death of a Johns Hopkins University researcher has been ordered held without bond. A District Court judge denied bond yesterday for 34-year-old John Wagner, saying his record shows "an extreme disregard for others."

By Patrick Madden

The D.C. mayor's race is about to get a lot funkier as Mayor Adrian Fenty uses go-go to help get-out-the-vote. Campaign songs are as old as, well, at least 1840 when that chart-busting "Tippecanoe and Tyler Too" helped carry William Henry Harrison into the White House.

By Matt Bush

Another round of severe weather is poised to hit the D.C.-region, and it could complicate PEPCO's efforts in restoring power to those who still don't have it after last Sunday's storms.

Regardless of what happens during the latest storms, PEPCO President Thomas Graham say...

WASHINGTON (AP) Metro fares are changing this weekend.

Beginning on Sunday, Metrorail customers who use a paper ticket will pay 25 cents more per trip than customers who use a plastic SmarTrip card.

Metro will also start adding a 20 cent additional charge during so-called "peak-of-the...

BALTIMORE (AP) The Baltimore-Washington area, still recovering from thunderstorms on Sunday that left hundreds of thousands without power, was hit again by severe weather.

Thunderstorms rolled through the region Thursday afternoon, bringing down trees and cutting power to thousands.

B...

WASHIGTON (AP) Metro fares are changing this weekend. Beginning on Sunday, Metrorail customers who use a paper ticket will pay 25 cents more per trip than customers who use a plastic SmarTrip card.

WASHINGTON (AP) The head of the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center is leaving her position overseein...