District of Columbia Government News

It has been a week since Nicholas Brown, 18, attended the Phi Delta Lamda party which later resulted in his trip to the hospital emergency room.

India's prime minister, Manmohan Singh, has arrived in Washington for a visit to be highlighted by an official welcoming ceremony and a state dinner at the White House with President Barack Obama.

Washington, D.C. - infoZine - A former State Department official and his wife have pleaded guilty to federal charges stemming from their roles in a 30-year conspiracy to provide classified U.S. national defense information to the Republic of Cuba.

A growing number of states reported rising jobless rates in October, and thirteen states reported unemployment rates above the national average of 10.2%, according to a government report released on Friday.

Speaking about the pending bill legalizing gay marriage in the District of Columbia, the Center for American Progress comes down hard on the Bishop Harry Jackson, a controversial figure in DC who is lambasting the bill.

Another Obama administration nominee is in hot water over tax issues. Senate Finance Committee leaders today announced that Lael Brainard, President Obama's nominee for Treasury undersecretary for international affairs, made several late payments and errors on her 2005-08 tax returns.

" For the second consecutive year, the United States earned only a "D" on the March of Dimes Premature Birth Report Card, demonstrating that more than half a million of our nation's newborns didn't get the healthy start they deserved.

In a wholly expected move, the Board of Elections and Ethics today released a decision rejecting a proposed ballot measure that aims to prohibit same-sex marriages.

For the second consecutive year, the United States earned only a "D" on the March of Dimes Premature Birth Report Card, demonstrating that more than half a million of our nation's newborns didn't get the healthy start they deserved.

Mayor Adrian M. Fenty, District Department of Transportation Director Gabe Klein and Federal Highway announced work has begun on the District's largest American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 transportation project.

Text Archive > American Libraries > Register of the Society of Colonial Wars in the District of Columbia, 1904 Register of the Society of Colonial Wars in the District of Columbia, 1904 This book has an editable web page on Open Library .

The Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration announced that it has awarded grants to fund broadband mapping and planning activities in Alabama, Idaho, Maryland, Massachusetts, Washington, Wisconsin, and Wyoming under NTIA's State Broadband Data and Development Grant Program.

The new parking garage at the Minnesota Avenue Metrorail Station neatly fits 520 vehicles, so if you live in Ward 7's Deanwood neighborhood, you are a happy commuter about now.

An eighth individual pleaded guilty today to illegally accessing numerous confidential passport application files.

Recent studies say childhood obesity has reached an all time high and the District of Columbia Public Schools has one of the highest childhood obesity rates in the country.

A DC City Council committee voted 4-1 earlier today to support a bill that would allow gays and lesbians to marry in the District.

The State tree of District of Columbia is the Scarlet Oak . This tree is also known as Spanish oak and black oak.

Forty young adults from 17 communions, 15 states, the District of Columbia, the Philippines and Canada, have gathered here this week-end with an ambitious aim: to launch a nation-wide movement of young adults for Christ.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has announced Shawn W. Garvin as the new Region 3 administrator.

Rarely has a giant sweet potato, a muddy knee and a stubbornly rooted fennel plant caused such a stir.