In the six months since the Frederick County Sheriff's Office began working closely with federal immigration authorities, 183 illegal immigrants have been identified, detained and put on track for deportation, a crackdown that has spooked the area's Latino community and provoked accusations by...

Members of the governing body of the publicly owned Dulles International and Reagan National airports have spent hundreds of thousands of the agency's dollars traveling to conferences around the world with little oversight and few, if any, rules.

RICHMOND -- The chairman of the Virginia Republican Party has compared Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama to Osama bin Laden because of the Illinois senator's past association with Bill Ayers, who has confessed to domestic bombings as a member of the Vietnam War-era Weather Underground.

D.C. police say they are seeing a growing number of teenagers and young adults traveling in groups to assault and rob unsuspecting citizens, a trend that mirrors crimes in cities across the country.

There are no pickups at National Harbor's American Market. No dirt-caked potatoes or grotesquely misshapen heirloom tomatoes. Everything is clean, colorful and tastefully displayed under matching white tents.

This week, staff writer Valerie Strauss concludes The Post's review of math education with a look at college-level work in high schools and what some graduates might be lacking.

John E. Deasy always emphasizes the positive. He is the kind of person who sees a downpour as good for the flowers. He is the only school superintendent I have ever met who enjoys talking to union leaders. I was not surprised, therefore, when he announced late last month that he was leaving his j...

What is a memory worth? That's the question I asked myself when my computer sounded a little death wheeze a few weeks ago and then stopped working. This is the laptop I bought just before we moved to England two summers ago, the laptop on which I kept all the photographs I took during our European...

A newborn girl who was found abandoned yesterday in the Takoma Park area died after being taken to a hospital, Prince George's County police said.

In this occasional Page Three feature, photographer Joe Elbert uses a camera to show you inside Washington's National Zoo. You can see his videos at http://washingtonpost.com/zootales .

Three people were killed in two separate motorcycle crashes in Maryland on Friday and Saturday, police said.

In what is probably the region's most significant test this fall of public sentiment on taxes and school funding in the worsening economy, Loudoun County voters will decide Nov. 4 whether to endorse a meals tax to raise money for school construction.

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Donald J.M. Blakeslee, 90, commander of the first American fighter squadrons to reach Berlin during World War II and one of the most successful combat fighter commanders in the history of the Air Force, died Sept. 3 of congestive heart failure at his home in Miami.

Richard Stephen Heyser, 81, a U-2 spy plane pilot who took the first photos of ballistic missile launch sites during the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, died Oct. 6 at a nursing home in Port St. Joe, Fla. A resident of nearby Apalachicola, he had suffered a series of strokes in recent years.

Sally Ann Burneskis, 68, a retired financial analyst and general business specialist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, died Sept. 17 of ovarian cancer at her home in Bowie.