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The 2014 DC Mayoral election race has been in turmoil since the beginning because of the overhang of allegations that Mayor Vincent Gray conspired with Jeffrey Thompson, a DC power broker and government contractor, to run an off-the-books get out the vote campaign for the 2010 election.

This Friday, Dec. 28, 2012, file photo shows the Capitol dome 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 biggest tip we can offer blossom seekers is don't drive . More than 1.5 million people are expected to visit the Washington region during the National Cherry Blossom Festival.

Jeffrey E. Thompson is thronged by journalists as he leaves the U.S. District Court of the District of Columbia on March 10 in Washington.

Authorities say an armed carjacking in Montgomery County ended in a police chase and shootout in Washington that sent three people to the hospital.

Amari Whitfield, 5, left, and his sister, Amera Bakker, 8, play with donated Leapfrog toys while their mother, Tara Whitfield, looks over their shoulders in their new apartment on March 7 in Washington.

Here's what Pew did. They used a sample of 26 news sites to conduct their research on peoples' digital browsing habits.

FAMU Professor David Jackson, Ph.D. and Professor Christopher Daniels, Ph.D. were two of six local authors selected to represent Tallahassee during C-SPAN's 2014 Cities Tour.

In this March 11, 2014, photo, Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif.

Christian Platt, one of the two artists in Susan Calloway Fine Arts's "Ink," works on a grand scale, although he doesn't disguise the smaller elements in his style.

Henry Jackson was killed in return fire from officers after he apparently shot at two ATF agents.

On Sunday night at Temple Emanuel in Kensington, Cantigas , which bills itself as "Washington's premier Latino chorus," will present "Connecting Hearts and Minds: Music From the Jewish, Latin American, And Arabic Traditions."

D.C. police are looking for multiple suspects involved in a fatal shooting overnight, just a short distance from the Anacostia Metro Station.

On her way to work on Friday morning, WUSA9's Erin Van der Bellen noticed shoes lined up along Westmoreland Circle plus a sign WASHINGTON -- On her way to work on Friday morning, WUSA9's Erin Van der Bellen noticed shoes lined up along Westmoreland Circle pl "The empty shoes on Westmoreland Circle represent the people who are shot each day.

Tax reform advocate Grover Norquist speaks on Capitol Hill in September on taxing marijuana businesses, the topic of this week's lobbying efforts by supporters.

District police are searching for four men wearing hooded sweatshirts who sped away from a shooting early Friday that left one man dead in Southeast Washington, authorities said.

With little hope of halting a vote to separate a strategic Ukraine peninsula from the rest of the country, the West is readying to impose harsh sanctions on Russia for what U.S. officials described as Moscow's insistence in undermining the new upstart government in Kiev, and fueling tensions among those who oppose it.

LONDON - With little hope of halting a vote to separate a strategic Ukraine peninsula from the rest of the country, the West is readying to impose harsh sanctions on Russia for what U.S. officials described as Moscow's insistence in undermining the new upstart government in Kiev, and fueling tensions among those who oppose it.

Police have arrested a 22-year-old Northeast Washington man in connection with four armed sex assaults and similar incidents along the Minnesota Avenue footbridge this month.