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Executive Behind Lavish Conference Leaves Agency

AP | LARRY MARGASAK | Posted 05.25.2012

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WASHINGTON -- The General Services Administration executive who was responsible for a lavish, $823,000 conference in Las Vegas is no longer with the G...

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Man In Mayor Gray's Inner Circle Pleads Guilty To Destroying Evidence

Posted 05.22.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Thomas Gore, the assistant campaign treasurer on District of Columbia Mayor Vincent Gray's 2010 campaign, is expected to be in federal c...

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PHOTOS: Mobile Farmers Market Hits The Streets

The Huffington Post | Rachel Tepper | Posted 05.18.2012

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Remember when we told you about the D.C. Mobile Market, the school bus that was turned into a farmers market on wheels? The project, dreamed up by ...

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Adams Morgan Petition: 'Stop Treating Record Stores Like Pawn Shops' (UPDATED)

The Huffington Post | Arin Greenwood | Posted 05.23.2012

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WASHINGTON -- A new petition circulating among Adams Morgan businessowners is asking District of Columbia officials to "stop treating record stores an...

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LOOK: Google's Self-Driving Car In Nation's Capital

The Huffington Post | Arin Greenwood and Michael Grass | Posted 05.17.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Google showed off its driverless car during a demonstration Thursday morning outside its offices on New York Avenue NW downtown. The ...

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Potomac Named 'Most Endangered' River

Patch | Posted 05.15.2012

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The Potomac River is America's "Most Endangered River" according to environmental watchdog organization, American Rivers. ...

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Capitol Campus Slated To Get Bikeshare Stations This Summer

| Posted 05.14.2012

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By Emma Dumain Roll Call Staff After nearly two years of stops and starts, security concerns and logistical hurdles, Capital Bikeshare could be co...

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Officials Try To Curb Abuse Of Handicapped Vehicle Tags

Examiner | Posted 05.13.2012

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Opportunistic drivers are getting bolder as they try to get their hands on coveted handicapped parking permits. They are stealing them, buying them...

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WATCH: Herbert Hoover's Rainy Inauguration

Ghosts of D.C. | Posted 05.04.2012

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This is an excellent silent film from 1929. It begins with outgoing president Calvin Coolidge and Hoover entering a vehicle and being taken to the Cap...

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Suburban Chateau Builder: 'This House Will Be Built'

The Huffington Post | Arin Greenwood | Posted 05.03.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Score one for the rich, litigious neighbors. Remember the lawsuit over the 25,424-square-foot mansion called "Le Chateau de Lumiere,"...

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Washington Humane Society Foster Challenge

Lisa LaFontaine | Posted 04.27.2012

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Not only do foster families provide a much needed safe haven for animals, but they also give each dog or cat the opportunity to feel comfortable enough to reveal his or her true personality.

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Who Wants A BlackBerry?

Washington City Paper | Posted 04.27.2012

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Pity the poor BlackBerry user in D.C. For years, the devices carried a certain dorky status, at least among the Capitol Hill set; obsessively check...

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Street 'Collapses' Near Center Of GWU Campus

Posted 04.25.2012

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WASHINGTON -- The District of Columbia Department of Transportation reported Wednesday morning that the intersection of 22nd and H streets NW in Foggy...

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D.C. Taxi Fare Increases Go Into Effect

Posted 04.23.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Planned taxi fare increases went into effect for cab rides in the nation's capital this weekend. As the Washington Examiner reported ...

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Man In Deportation Case Is Free ... For Now

HuffingtonPost.com | Arin Greenwood | Posted 04.20.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Jai Shankar is no longer wearing the ankle bracelet that had been tracking his every move since 2010. Shankar was ordered to wear th...

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PHOTOS: Space Shuttle Discovery Flies Over Nation's Capital

Posted 04.17.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Flying from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the Space Shuttle Discovery piggy-backed on a jumbo jet bound for Dulles International ...

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Local Official Involved In 'Pretty Epic Butt-Tweeting' Incident

Posted 04.10.2012

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WASHINGTON -- District of Columbia Councilmember Muriel Bowser (D-Ward 4) sent a series of accidental -- and somewhat amusing -- tweets on Tuesday aft...

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3 People Thrown Into Tidal Basin

Posted 04.09.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Three people were thrown into the Tidal Basin trying to retrieve two paddleboats that became stuck on a bridge abutment during windy con...

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Warm Weather Impacts Bike Lane Expansion

Posted 04.08.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Warm weather conditions this winter may have contributed to the early bloom of the cherry blossoms. But it also helped something else bl...

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Pro-Life Grandpa Facing D.C. Abortion Clinic Lawsuit

AP | JESSICA GRESKO | Posted 04.04.2012

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WASHINGTON — Dick Retta stands outside a Planned Parenthood clinic in downtown Washington three days a week, trying to persuade pregnant women n...

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LOOK: Brunch At Baltimore's Woodberry Kitchen

The Huffington Post | Rachel Tepper | Posted 04.04.2012

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BALTIMORE -- Nestled in a long-closed mill in Baltimore's Hampden neighborhood Woodberry Kitchen is a bastion of local and organic cooking. Since o...

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Bartlett, Delaney Win In MD-6

Posted 04.03.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Maryland's contentious primary battle in the newly redrawn 6th Congressional District ended Tuesday night with 10-term Rep. Roscoe Bartl...

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D.C. Taxi Passengers Get New Warning

Posted 04.01.2012

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WASHINGTON -- District of Columbia Taxicab Commission Chairman Ron Linton has a warning for passengers, especially women: Beware of aggressive cab dri...

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Weekend To-Do: Netflix Seeks Local Actors, A Sushi Festival And An Underwater Egg Hunt

The Huffington Post | Rachel Tepper | Posted 03.30.2012

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WASHINGTON -- This weekend, the cherry blossom-mania continues with Japanese Culture Day at the Library of Congress and a high-end sushi extravaganza ...

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Are Metro's Escalator Problems Getting Worse?

TBD | Posted 03.29.2012

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WMATA continues to have an escalator problem. The transit agency replaced its first 15-year-old escalators last summer at Foggy Bottom, but this morni...

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