National Book Festival starts Saturday in Washington D.C New events are being added to this year’s National Book Festival, including a discussion with writers whose books were made into movies, and cooking demonstrations by top chefs. The festival on Saturday runs from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. It’s moving inside to the Washington Convention Center after a decade on the National Mall.
Hundreds without power in Northwest Washington D.C. housing co-op Hundreds of people in Northwest D.C.’s Sursum Corda Cooperative who lost power Tuesday were forced to fight through 90-degree temperatures and humidity.
Masked Men Rob Group Relaxing on NW Washington D.C. Deck A victim told News4 he and several of his friends, all men in their 20s, were listening to music on the back deck of a home in the 3800 block of Jocelyn Street NW in the Chevy Chase neighborhood around 10 p.m. when they saw two men in ski masks approaching them.
2 stabbed near Northwest Washington D.C. high school They were attacked across the street from Coolidge High School in Northwest at about 3:30 p.m.
George Washington University introduces ramped-up penalties for off-campus violations Foggy Bottom residents have long been frustrated with GW students living off-campus. Noisy, late-night parties and messy, trash-strewn properties have elicited multiple complaints to the University’s administration. Neighborhood residents have largely panned previous efforts to make off-campus students more accountable.
200 years ago, Washington DC burned Two hundred years ago Sunday, roads out of Washington, D.C., were clogged with wagons hauling household belongings, bank cash, even government documents. Citizens of the capital city were on the run in the face of invading British forces. Along with the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attack and the attack on Pearl Harbor, Sunday marks one of the darkest days in United States history.
Car plunges into Potomac; rescue crews recover one body A person was found dead in a car submerged in the Potomac River off the George Washington Parkway near the Columbia Island Marina Sunday afternoon.
Three sex assaults reported in Washington DC may be related D.C. police say they have gotten reports of three different sexual assaults on women in a five-day span, and they’re investigating the possibility that the incidents might be connected.
Race-based hate crimes rose in Washington D.C. in 2013 Even as overall hate crimes in D.C. dropped last year, those based solely on race spiked by nearly 40 percent, according to an annual report from the Metropolitan Police Department. There were 18 race-based hate crimes in the District in 2013, up from 13 in 2012, the report says.
Washington D.C.-based journalist among latest arrests in Ferguson, Mo. Frank Herrmann, of D.C., was arrested alongside another German newspaper correspondent, Ansgar Graw, after the pair allegedly failed to follow police instructions to vacate an empty street. They said they followed police orders.
