The county has a new civilian review panel made up of nine residents, as well as an independent police auditor. Both can review completed police investigations.
After a community outcry and a petition to state regulators, the plan for a controversial power-transmission line through a Prince William County neighborhood appears close to being scrapped in favor of a new route.
The bodies of three dead children were discovered inside a Clinton, Maryland, home early Friday morning, and Prince George's County police are investigating the deaths as homicides.
A memorial marker honoring the founder of the Washington Redskins George Preston Marshall is likely to be removed as part of redevelopment plans at RFK Stadium. But two Native American groups and a D.C. Council member would like the team…
The man accused of ramming protesters with his car in Charlottesville over the weekend, leading to the death of one woman, is facing additional charges Friday.
In a statement, Charlottesville Mayor Mike Signer said the killing of Heather Heyer forced him to change his opinion on whether the statue honoring Confederate General Robert E. Lee should be removed from a city park. Signer said he wants…
Less than a year after residents were forced to move out of the Lynnhill condominium complex on a moment’s notice, the Prince George’s County Fire Department has warned residents that several serious fire code violations need to be fixed…
Actor Kal Penn, artist Chuck Close and virtually the entire membership of the President's Committee On the Arts and Humanities have announced their resignation.
Susan Bro said she initially missed the first few calls to her from the White House. But she said "now I will not" talk to the president after a news conference in which Trump equated violence by white supremacists at the rally with…
Arlington County Board Chairman Jay Fisette said in a statement Thursday that the county has heard from many residents seeking that Confederate names be no longer memorialized in the county.
Details about any evidence found in the Dodge Challenger driven by Charlottesville murder suspect James Fields have been secreted for the time being by a judge, WTOP has learned.
While zoo keepers haven't been able to confirm whether or not she is pregnant, she has been exhibiting behaviors that are in line with an actual and pseudopregnancy.
The part of Beach Drive that has been closed for nearly a year is due to reopen in just over a week, but that doesn’t mean commuters itching to cut through Rock Creek Park to Montgomery County will be able to jump right back in. Find out…
Former Supreme Court Justice Roger B. Taney was a Maryland native and penned the 1857 Dred Scott decision. It upheld slavery in the United States and denied citizenship to black people.
President Donald Trump bitingly decried the rising movement to pull down monuments to Confederate icons Thursday, declaring the nation is seeing "the history and culture of our great country being ripped apart."
A day after Baltimore removed four Confederate memorial statues overnight following the attacks in Charlottesville, Virginia, many cities, including D.C., are considering doing the same. A historian is weighing in on where cities can draw…
In the wake of President Donald Trump's remarks that "both sides" share blame for Saturday's deadly violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, Gov. Terry McAuliffe is blasting the president, saying he doesn't even want Trump to visit…
Northern Virginia school systems face significant achievement gaps that can be tied to students' economic background, according to detailed results of this year's Standards of Learning test. Here's a look at the schools with the widest…
Lee Boyd Malvo, convicted for his role in the deadly sniper attacks that terrorized the region, has lost his bid for a new sentence in Montgomery County.
By the time the sun came up Wednesday, all four of Baltimore's Confederate statues were gone, and some of the sites were covered in spray paint and other graffiti.
The small Falls Church City school system mostly led the pack in Northern Virginia and the state as a whole when it came to its students passing the Standards of Learning tests. See where other Northern Virginia schools rank.
A combative President Donald Trump insisted Tuesday "there is blame on both sides" for the deadly violence last weekend in Charlottesville, Virginia, appearing to once again equate the actions of white supremacist groups and those…
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan announced Tuesday he is joining the movement to remove a statue of a Supreme Court justice who wrote a decision upholding slavery.
While James Alex Fields, Jr. is held without bond, charged with murder in the fatal car attack at Saturday's white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, local and federal prosecutors say additional charges could be coming.
Under pressure all weekend, President Donald Trump on Monday named and condemned hate groups as "repugnant" and declared "racism is evil" in an updated, more forceful statement on the deadly, race-fueled clashes in Charlottesville,…
Charlottesville's police chief stood by the actions of state and local police in response to violent clashes between protesters on Saturday but said he did have regrets. "We lost three lives this weekend."
Four men and a teenager who held a Silver Spring family hostage earlier this month in an attempt to rob a check cashing business have been arrested on charges ranging from assault to home invasion.
James Alex Fields Jr., the man charged with second-degree murder for driving into a crowd in Charlottesville, is being held without bond on a second-degree murder charge.
Forty years ago, President Jimmy Carter came to Washington. While the children of high-ranking Washington officials customarily attended posh private schools, Carter's 9-year-old daughter Amy attended a modest public elementary school a…