Nikki Haley has won the Republican primary in the District of Columbia, notching her first victory of the 2024 campaign. Her victory Sunday at least temporarily halts Donald Trump’s sweep of the GOP voting contests, although the former president is bound to pick up several hundred more delegates in this week’s Super Tuesday races. Despite […]
It’s time for cherry blossoms again — and officials expect large crowds to brave unpredictable weather for the Tidal Basin’s brightest and pinkest day of the year. National Park Service officials estimated Thursday that the District’s cherry blossoms will reach their peak bloom between March 23 and March 26, a day later than the period […]
Police early Thursday arrested a man suspected of shooting and wounding a D.C. Housing Authority police officer near the Navy Yard neighborhood in Southeast. Chief Michael Reese, the head of the Housing Authority’s police unit, said the suspect was taken into custody at 9 a.m. after barricading himself inside a parking garage. A woman who […]
Suspects in a police-shooting incident in Washington and a separate shooting death of a 2-year-old boy in Maryland were in the country illegally, the government has confirmed. Stephen Clause Rattigan is accused of shooting three Metropolitan Police Department officers on Valentine’s Day after they came to serve a warrant for animal cruelty. He is an […]
Not everybody in poverty is irresponsible and makes all the wrong choices. There are a lot of different paths that people walk, and until we know somebody’s story, we should withhold judgment. That’s as true for people trying to help others out as it is for those inclined to look askance at people. There is […]
The man accused of shooting three District of Columbia police officers and walling himself off for hours two weeks ago is in the country illegally, according to a report. Shooting suspect Stephen Claude Rattigan, 48, has an active deportation order with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, according to independent reporter Julio Rosas. The report didn’t share […]
Five House Republicans and pro-life groups on Wednesday called for justice for five aborted fetuses that are to be destroyed by the D.C. Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. Lauren Handy and Terrisa Bukovinac, two activists with the Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising group, discovered the fetuses in March 2022 in a box of 115 fetuses outside […]
D.C. police on Wednesday said a gunman shot three officers and the suspect has since remained holed up in a residence in Southeast. Authorities said the officers suffered non-life-threatening injuries in the shooting that occurred around 8 a.m. in the 5000 block of Hanna Place Southeast. A source familiar with the ongoing incident said the […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Three police officers have been shot in Washington and their injuries appear to be non-life-threatening, authorities said Wednesday. The Metropolitan Police Department said in a statement posted online that the officers were shot in the southeast part of the nation’s capital at about 8:30 a.m. No other details were immediately available. The […]
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser on Monday said a new public safety outpost in Chinatown will bring together police, drug abuse counselors and homeless services in hopes of suppressing the crime and disorder that have plagued the downtown neighborhood. Ms. Bowser said the new Safe Commercial Corridor Hub at 675 H Street Northwest is part of […]
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