The kind of person who finds a pit bull kissing booth appealing -- and, for the record, we at HuffPost DC are those kinds of people -- should get ready for an event coming about a year from now that's going to knock your socks off.

It won't surprise you that the man in this photo, holding a pit bull like a baby, has a sweet engagement story that involves his dog.

Sean Stinchcomb is a Baltimore musician and as of about two and a half years ago...

WASHINGTON -- The proprietors of one of D.C.'s first medical marijuana dispensaries shared big news with their Facebook followers on Tuesday:

Scott Morgan, communications director for Capital City Care, told The Huffington Post that "we are going to...

WASHINGTON -- Aaron Fitzgerald used to help coordinate a group called Liberty on the Rocks.

"A monthly happy hour," he says. "It's a group of liberty-minded folks coming together and partaking in happy hour functions."

One day, Fitzgerald's co-organizer made a radical proposal. "He had the idea that...

Until recently, getting a full digital copy of D.C.'s laws was surprisingly difficult to do.

The official version of the laws was available in an expensive book form, or on a website that's impossible to link to -- here, try it; the links expire quickly. Since the...

If you're in the market for a house that is ghost-free, the real estate blog D.C. Urban Turf has the place for you:

[A] four-bedroom home recently hit the market in the 500 block of Sheridan Street NW that has a humorous rider. Specifically, it signals that the...

A house robbery doesn't normally involve the house itself being stolen.

The Washington Post reports on the strange case of Lamont Butler, who found a $6 million mansion for sale in the D.C. suburbs, and decided to move in:

But the personable 28-year-old, known to wear a red...

Eddie is a rare calico lobster who recently found himself on a Rhode Island fishing boat, then at the headquarters of a Washington, D.C., fish wholesaler, only to be saved from certain boiling by his extraordinarily unusual mottled appearance.

"Some say those are as rare as one in 30 million,...

Oh dear, oh deer.

Five D.C. residents and an animal rights group that sued to stop the National Park Service from hunting white tailed deer in D.C.'s Rock Creek Park had their motion for summary judgment dismissed by a federal judge on Thursday.

Robert L. Wilkins...

WASHINGTON -- The Uber driver accused of raping a female passenger after driving her to her Washington, D.C., home has been arrested.

The Washington Post has details:

Anouar Habib Trabelsi, of Alexandria, was arrested Tuesday by the Capital Area Regional Fugitive Task Force and charged with one count...

Northern Virginia is, it increasingly appears, rich in genetically-gifted world record-holders.

Arlingtonian Annie Hawkins-Turner -- her stage name is Norma Stitz -- has the Guinness Book of World Records' record for world's largest natural breasts.

A few miles away lives the woman with the world's longest legs....

About a week ago, 7-year-old Josh Welch was suspended from his Maryland school for two days after biting a Pop-Tart into the shape of a gun.

"It was already a rectangle and I just kept on biting it and biting it and tore off the top and it kinda...

Virginia artist Athalyn Rose says she did not have this particular thing in mind when she asked for a miracle in 1998.

"What I was hoping for was prosperity and abundance," she says.

What she got was a large piece of cloth that, when painted black and backlit, contains...

A gigantic mansion fit for a queen, or a lawsuit, is getting its second story. With a Kennedy.

Last we heard, litigious neighbors had derailed plans for a 25,000 square foot house modeled on Versailles to be built on five acres in a tony Virginia suburb, where modesty...

Around 2 p.m. on Wednesday, Harald Olsen, a Korean translator looking for work -- "casualty of the sequester," he says -- thought he was about to go home after having lunch with a friend.

Instead, he and three other people helped escort a family of...

Holly the cat goes swimming, wearing a life vest, at a day spa for animals just outside the nation's capital.

Holly's owner, Dani Lawhorne, says that swimming is the only exercise her 18-pound feline will tolerate.

"She won't do anything else," Dani Lawhorne told WJLA, in...

This kind of cute can (almost) make you forget about the impending sequester!

Check out these impossibly adorable photos of the National Zoo's new baby clouded leopards. These two munchkins were born in early February, at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute in Front Royal, Virginia.

These cubs...

Arlington Now reports that a most dastardly crime has been reported in Northern Virginia:

A resident on the 600 block of S. Carlin Springs Road told officers that someone stole a chicken from her crock pot as it was cooking. It happened sometime between 9:00 a.m. and 1:30...

The most unexpected thing about Heather M. And Flavien B.'s recent surprise Jefferson Memorial wedding may be that they got married at all, considering that their first date did not go especially well.

"The first time we met, we had friends with us," says Heather, who is from Bangor, Pennsylvania....

WASHINGTON -- On a typical Friday night, Steve Davis says he's home watching Shark Tank on television.

Last Friday night, though, was unusual. Davis and five Jewish friends wore matching outfits -- blue blazers, red t-shirts and jeans -- and,...