As far as he knew, John Robinson was dead. It had been more than 50 years since Ed Malouf had seen his former lieutenant. But here was a letter to the editor in the Army's 78th Infantry Division magazine signed by Robinson.

Metro board Chairman Jim Graham said Tuesday that the transit agency has lifted a long-standing ban and will allow independent safety monitors access to live subway tracks.

A Prince George's County grand jury has indicted a dozen people on felony theft charges, accusing them of collectively stealing almost $90,000 worth of books from county public libraries, authorities said yesterday.

A regulation proposed by Montgomery County officials Tuesday would require pregnancy centers run by abortion opponents to give women a disclaimer so they don't mistake the centers for medical clinics and so they understand the source of the information given to them.

Leaders of the U.S. Naval Academy tinkered with the composition of the color guard that appeared at a World Series game last month so the group would not be exclusively white and male.

A remarkable transformation occurs when men and women don their military uniforms among civilians. They get handshakes and compliments and broad smiles.

Immigrant advocates filed a federal civil rights lawsuit Tuesday on behalf of a Salvadoran woman who was detained by Frederick County sheriff's deputies in a case they say illustrates the problems with a federal program that has deputized dozens of state and local police departments nationwide to...

They met at a fair in Atlanta, their home town. He was a soldier who'd joined the Army at 16. She was the daughter of a policeman who ran background checks on her boyfriends. He was the first one who passed muster.

A man and a woman found fatally shot inside their Fairfax County home Monday were identified Tuesday by police as Richard C. Scott, 66, and Suzanne M. Scott, 52, but no other details about the case were released.

The jury of nine women and three men chosen for Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon's trial on theft charges will begin work Thursday, but first a judge will weigh new allegations involving another batch of gift cards said to have been donated by a developer not previously named in the case.

A D.C. Council committee voted Tuesday to send a bill legalizing same-sex marriage to the full council for debate, clearing the way for a final decision next month.

A Giant Food store in Montgomery County was evacuated Tuesday after people inside reported smelling gas and becoming sick, officials said.

Two projects that would dramatically alter two neighborhoods in Northeast Washington received preliminary approval Monday night from the D.C. Zoning Commission.

The Montgomery County Council on Tuesday unanimously endorsed a plan to add reversible rush-hour lanes on parts of Interstate 270 and make solo commuters pay to use them.

The Eastern Avenue bridge, too old and so low that it gets whacked by tall trucks, is about to be demolished and replaced, a year-long job that will force 21,800 daily drivers to find another route over Kenilworth Avenue.

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Gene D. Cohen, an impish geriatric psychiatrist who championed the idea that people past retirement age have untapped stores of creativity and intellectually rigorous skills in their later years, died Nov. 7 of prostate cancer at his home in Kensington. He was 65.

Virginia Luce Allen, 92, who started the Georgetown Senior Center to alleviate what she called the "plague of loneliness" for the neighborhood's older residents, died Oct. 28 at the Washington Home hospice after a stroke in August.

Mattie Cummings, 92, a onetime Mississippi sharecropper who was the mother of D.C. Council member Marion Barry, died Nov. 8 at a nursing home in Memphis, where she had spent much of her life as a domestic worker.

Ruth B. Brooks, 75, a real estate agent with Long & Foster in Annapolis from 1989 to 1999, died Oct. 24 at Reston Hospital Center. She had Alzheimer's disease.