Kojo connects with a journalist from Washington who reported on the Boston Marathon bombings after running in the race himself, and with the chief of the Metro Transit Police Department here in the Washington area.

By a vote of 68 to 31, the U.S. Senate voted to consider expanded gun control legislation, which is already farther than most expected it to go.

Supporters of the gun control legislation passed in Maryland this legislative session are confident that the legislation banning assault weapons and large magazines will hold up to a referendum.

The latest on the investigation into the deadly Boston explosions and new questions on the limits of security.

Latest on the West, Texas, fertilizer plant explosion, the Boston bombings and suspicious letters addressed to President Obama and several others.

A water main break in Chevy Chase, Md., left a massive crater in Connecticut Avenue last month, which has brought renewed attention to the way pipes are monitored.

Maryland Lawmakers are hoping their new gun control legislation will spur other states to act.

An estimated one in five college women are sexually assaulted on campus. Students are angry at how universities handle rape cases, and they're using social media to teach each other how to use Title IX to hold colleges accountable.

Flight attendants at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport are soliciting the public to help fight a decision by the TSA would relax the ban on carrying small knives onto planes.

A two-alarm fire in a Maryland apartment building has left one person in critical condition, several afflicted with smoke-related injuries, and many more displaced.