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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.

The New York Times has an extensive report about how, after staking $1 billion on the collapse of the nutritional supplement company, Bill Ackman's activist hedge fund Pershing Square Capital Management has been aggressively lobbying to bring the company down.

Ascension Parish President Tommy Martinez said he and other parish officials had some success in pressing Ascension 's case in Washington, D.C. for a federal grant to build a key road to Lamar-Dixon Expo Center .

JANUARY 29: Attorney General Eric Holder testifies during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Capotil Hill, on January 29, 2014 in Washington, DC.

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu promised not to evacuate West Bank settlements, even as he acknowledged that some of them would not be within Israel's permanent borders if a final-status agreement was reached with the Palestinians.

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In this Feb. 4, 2014, file photo, Peter Swire, of the Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technology, testifies before the House Judiciary Committee's hearing on Recommendations to Reform FISA Authorities, on Capitol Hill in Washington.