Howard Community College yesterday held a graduation for one.

D.C. Council Chairman Vincent C. Gray will enlist an independent law firm to investigate the $60,000 contract that council member Marion Barry awarded to his then-girlfriend, sources said.

Metro's Red Line riders aren't likely to get relief from what has become a painful commute anytime soon.

D.C. Mayor Adrian M. Fenty yesterday fired five corrections workers at the city's New Beginnings Youth Center in Laurel, put two other employees on leave and demoted the detention center's superintendent, saying all were negligent in failing to stop two recent escapes from the $46 million facility,...

They are far from the rioting and bloodshed that have thrust their home country into the daily news, but for Hondurans living in the Washington area and beyond, the coup d'etat last week has reached into their lives in ways many hadn't expected.

Metro has toughened its policy against texting by train or bus operators, following the release of a video showing a train operator apparently doing so while his train speeds down the tracks.

Last September, 9-month-old Anthony M. Savoy III was killed in his car seat in Suitland, struck by one of more than a dozen bullets from an automatic weapon. Yesterday, Prince George's County police think, they found their man.

The Republican chief judge of the Richmond-based federal appeals court has retired suddenly because of illness, giving President Obama another opening to fill on what was once considered the nation's most conservative appellate court.

Plant scientists are asking home gardeners in the region to check their tomato plants for a disease that could wipe out much of this year's crop.

Montgomery County detectives are investigating the suspicious deaths of a man and woman in their 70s whose bodies were found yesterday in their condominium in downtown Rockville.

Montgomery County authorities were preparing to charge seven alleged members of the Latin Kings gang with murder yesterday in connection with an attack that grew out of tension over women.

It was the longest trial in D.C. Superior Court history, and this week a jury found six members of a Southeast Washington gang guilty of four slayings, several assaults and witness intimidation.

The state of Maryland is offering to buy back crabbing licenses from about half of the state's watermen in a bid to rebuild the Chesapeake Bay's beleaguered stock of blue crabs by reducing the number of people trying to catch them.