Vice President Joe Biden met with Virginia state leaders to discuss a comprehensive approach to ending gun violence.

Five years ago, the Supreme Court struck down DC's 30-year-old handgun ban. Kojo talks to plaintiffs in the case and to the city official who helped write the law.

The Metropolitan Police Department is disputing the findings of a Human Rights Watch report that identifies systemic failures to investigate cases of sexual assault.

Maryland and Virginia lawmakers on both sides of the gun-control debate voice their proposals.

A Virginia task force charged with reexamining school safety in the commonwealth is debating whether to require an armed guard in every school — but not everyone is sold on the idea.

An explosive new report by Human Rights Watch accuses the Metropolitan Police Department of failing to investigate 170 cases of sexual assault between 2008 and 2011.

The Montgomery County Council votes on a resolution today that would urge Maryland state lawmakers and members of Congress  to take actions to reduce gun violence.

One Maryland lawmaker wants to make it easier to use some revenues from that state's casinos to place armed guards in schools if the schools see fit.

The debate on guns and school safety in Maryland has prompted an Eastern Shore armor manufacturer to design a bulletproof teaching board to be used as a last line of defense in the classroom.

Gov. Martin O'Malley's proposed changes to gun laws have been met with vehement disdain from Eastern Shore legislators.