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LANHAM, Md. - The best part of the weekend may come Friday morning for thousands of commuters in the Washington area as the District Department of Transportation adds a third lane for traffic coming off the 11th Street Bridge and onto the Southeast-Southwest Freeway.

The City of Woodland announced Thursday that the President's Federal 2015 budget proposal, released this past Tuesday, includes $800,000 for the Army Corps of Engineers to advance their feasibility study of a Lower Cache Creek flood solution.

Police have identified the victim of a fatal crash that happened Wednesday night in Brentwood, Md.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie delivers an uncharacteristically low-key speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference this afternoon, aiming to reconnect with the Republican base amid a traffic scandal that has dented his 2016 ambitions Humbled by a scandal that has hampered his rise on the national stage, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie ... (more)

In this Jan. 21, 2014, photo, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., chair of the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Personnel , is interviewed by The Associated Press about her proposal to let military prosecutors rather than commanders make decisions on whether to prosecute sexual assaults in the military, in her Capitol Hill office in Washington.

When he returned from deployment overseas, Air Force Master Sgt. Samoris Hall wanted a special night out, so he bought a bottle of Dom Perignon and took his wife out to Ben's Chili Bowl.

House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Rep. Ed Royce, R-Calif., speaks with Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla., on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, March 6, 2014, before the committee's hearing on American foreign policy toward Ukraine.

A Thrilled Cheese sandwich, chips, a Tipsy Kids Shot and a Nehi Orange Soda chaser at Thomas Foolery.

A House panel on Thursday was preparing to vote on a resolution that condemns Russia for its occupation of Ukraine's Crimean peninsula and called on the Obama administration to enact tough Your Take contributions have not been reviewed for accuracy by USA TODAY.

A man who was found mortally wounded inside a car that crashed on a residential street in Northwest Washington Wednesday night had been shot three blocks away, according to D.C. police.

"My show is really high-energy, a lot of dancing -- Baltimore club dancing," Rye Rye says.

Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde, leader of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington, and members of St. Paul's Parish in Washington, D.C., imposed ashes on commuters and other passers-by on Ash Wednesday near the Foggy Bottom Metro station in the nation's capital.

One Washington, D.C., community thinks it might have an answer. Just a 10-minute drive south of the U.S. Capitol, across the Anacostia River, sits Congress Heights.

Center stage is quite possibly the last place you'll find Chris Svoboda. While she's had a hand in multiple efforts over the years, she's made sure not to be the face of any of them.

A D.C. man has suffered serious injuries after a tractor-trailer jackknifed on the Capital Beltway in northern Virginia.

Plans to shrink the United States military to levels not seen since World War II are not sitting well with many U.S. lawmakers.

Fashion Washington , a seasonal magazine from Washington Post Media, captures the increasingly stylish scene from trend-setting diplomats to star-studded parties.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid took to the floor on Tuesday to denounce the spending -- now up to $14.5 million -- by Charles and David Koch on Senate races, the latest attempt by Democrats to raise the profile of the free-spending conservative brothers in advance of the November election.

Copies of President Barack Obama's proposed fiscal 2015 budget are set out for distribution by the Senate Budget Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 4, 2014.

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