Earthquake Proves DC Is Slow To React During Emergency
WASHINGTON -- The nation's capital has prepared for emergencies with sleek communication systems, intelligence fusion centers and chemical detection c...
WASHINGTON -- The nation's capital has prepared for emergencies with sleek communication systems, intelligence fusion centers and chemical detection c...
Carl Pope | Posted 10.25.2011
By the standards of the Arab Spring, the civil disobedience at the White House this week over the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline was statistically tiny. But I hope the Keystone protest will attract serious attention in the Obama White House.
AP | By BEN NUCKOLS | Posted 10.25.2011
WASHINGTON -- The National Park Service says engineers have discovered several additional cracks in the top portion of the Washington Monument. The c...
HuffingtonPost.com | Christina Wilkie | Posted 10.24.2011
MINERAL, Va. -- Residents of this small town in Central Virginia's farming county began repairing the damage to their homes and businesses Tuesday aft...
AP | By BARBARA ORTUTAY | Posted 10.24.2011
SAN FRANCISCO (Associated Press) -- On the East Coast, people tweeted and Facebooked with expressions of surprise, worry and sometimes panic over the ...
The Huffington Post | Posted 10.24.2011
A magnitude 5.8 earthquake hit just outside Richmond, Va. today, causing little damage, but sending Twitter into a frenzy. The epicenter, which was...
Posted 10.24.2011
A 5.8 magnitude earthquake shook Virginia on Tuesday afternoon and folks quickly uploaded footage of their experience, and the quake's immediate after...
Posted 10.24.2011
Images of citizens in Washington D.C. and New York City evacuating buildings have begun to surface following an estimated magnitude 5.8 earthquake cen...
Posted 10.24.2011
Yeah, we know, we're almost so totally over it, too. But you must admit, when the Twitterverse joins together in equal snark over a single event, it's...
AP | The Associated Press | Posted 10.24.2011
WASHINGTON — The National Park Service says most of the monuments and memorials on the National Mall have reopened after being closed following ...
AP | Posted 10.24.2011
RICHMOND, Va. — Federal officials say two nuclear reactors at the North Anna Power Station in Louisa County, Va., were automatically taken off l...
AP | JACK GILLUM | Posted 10.24.2011
WASHINGTON — Cell phone and landline customers experienced connection problems after Tuesday's earthquake, but there were no immediate reports o...
The Huffington Post | Posted 10.24.2011
An estimated magnitude 5.8 earthquake struck Virginia early Tuesday afternoon, with reports of tremors felt as far north as New York City. Accordin...
Posted 10.24.2011
The earthquake that hit Washington, D.C. on Tuesday quickly supplanted all other news stories. Every network and news outlet on the East Coast moved t...
The Huffington Post | Dean Praetorius | Posted 10.24.2011
Preliminary reports are indicating that a 5.8 magnitude earthquake occurred in Virginia at 1:51 pm EDT., according to the USGS. Shaking has been re...
AP | By ERIC TUCKER | Posted 10.25.2011