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From left, Chris Smith of W.C. Smith developers, Mayor Vincent Gray and cuncil member Yvette Alexander toss shovels of dirt at the groundbreaking for the new Skyland Town Center.

The skies were cloudy, gunmetal gray. It was drizzling just enough to make you annoyed at the lack of an umbrella.

DC FIRE/EMS officials say a worker has fallen down a hole at a construction site in Northwest and crews are trying to rescue him.

While personalities, politics and the protection of turf all helped drive the CIA and its Senate overseers apart, the remarkable split now at center stage also revives the centuries-old drama called separation of powers.

This Oct. 30, 2013 file photo shows Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius testifying on Capitol Hill in Washington.

Maddox Middle School eighth-grade students and teachers Greg Tinker and Karen Hamman pose for a picture Friday afternoon at the school.

The weather on Tuesday March 11, 2014, made the trip to hear Mayor Vincent Gray 's State of the District Address feel like a warm and wonderful day.

Maddox Middle School eighth-grade students and teachers Greg Tinker and Karen Hamman pose for a picture Friday afternoon at the school.

The Courtyard by Marriott Washington, D.C./Dupont Circle, a National Cherry Blossom Festival hotel sponsor, is celebrating the arrival of spring with a unique Cherry Blossom Package.

At the kickoff for the Open at CrossFit Balance in downtown Washington, there was a DJ to pump up the participants.

The weather on Tuesday March 11, 2014, made the trip to hear Mayor Vincent Gray 's State of the District Address feel like a warm and wonderful day.

New Hampshire state Rep. Kyle Tasker went on a public Facebook forum Monday and posted a sexually explicit joke about women who have been the victims of domestic abuse.

Transit expansions, like LA's expo line, which opened in 2012, have helped boost transit ridership to levels not seen in 57 years.

District police are looking for a man who they believe sexually assaulted a woman and tried to attack two others who were walking along a footbridge last week outside the Minnesota Avenue Metro station in Northeast Washington.

The 11th street bridge, which connects Washington D.C.'s historic Capitol Hill and Anacostia neighborhoods, is being rebuilt, opening up a new opportunity to create a 900-foot-long elevated park .

Last weekend's sun and moderate temperatures were heaven for those who've been waiting months to drink beer outdoors.

In this photograph made Tuesday, Dec. 31, 2013 a Washington Metro bus rolls across the Roosevelt Bridge over the Potomac River in Washington.

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In this Dec. 11, 2013, file photo, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington.

District police on Monday arrested Corey Saxton, 20, in connection with last week's shooting of a man who was found dead in the back seat of a car that had crashed on a residential street in Northwest Washington's Brightwood Park.