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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.

OXON HILL, Md. -- Police arrested a man Thursday for allegedly murdering a 31-year-old Md.

The mysterious markings resembling crop circles carved into trees in Northwest Washington began appearing Monday along streets stretching from Bloomingdale to Shaw.

After years of protracted legal battles, the Third Church of Christ, Scientist, in Washington, D.C., will be demolished.

It's about to get harder to find a grubby place for a beer on Capitol Hill. The Pour House at 319 Pennsylvania Ave. SE will close its doors on April 30, Tim Ebner of the Washington City Paper's Young and Hungry blog reports .

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.