District of Columbia Government News

The Department of Justice granted over $114 million yesterday as part of its efforts to address and prevent violence against women across the country.

CarInsurance.com has expanded into Alabama, Iowa, Maine, Oklahoma and the District of Columbia.

The route goes past orangutans, lions and crocodiles, and the pace is breakneck.

The woman who says she lived for months with the corpses of her two daughters in a freezer was the girls' foster mother before she adopted them from the District of Columbia .

COLUMBUS -- The payday loan industry is bankrolling ballot issue campaigns in Ohio and Arizona to preserve the average 391 percent annual interest rates they charge, as the two states become the focus of ...

The mixed bag of voting methods and systems in the 2006 general election varied across the 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia, and is not expected to change substantially for the 2008 general election.

District of Columbia police have identified the passenger who died after the taxi he was in collided with a Metrobus.

On Friday, the District Court for the District of Columbia issued its decision in the liability phase of Shroer v. Billington , a case brought by a woman who was transgendered against the Library of Congress.

Good lord! A letter to the editor published in a major newspaper that actually makes an interesting point in an intelligent manner .

USA Today has a fun list of which movies and TV shows have been shot in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.

An analysis of the state-by-state race to 270 electoral votes between Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain.

An advocacy group is praising the District of Columbia for supporting needle exchanges in an effort to reduce the spread of AIDS.

DC fire officials insist there is nothing more to the stabbing at the Georgetown firehouse Tuesday night than "negligent horseplay". Now, Kenneth Lyons, president of the union representing civilian EMS workers ...

An Afghan journalist detained for 11 months at the U.S. military base at Bagram alleged on Monday that his captors kicked him, forced him to stand barefoot in the snow and didnt allow him to sleep for days.

Voters by the thousands will begin casting ballots for president this week in an early voting process that's expected to set records this year.

District of Columbia lawmakers have passed a measure that would increase fines for drivers who fail to stop for pedestrians.

District of Columbia officials are encouraging residents to participate in "Car Free D.C. Day" on Monday.

Today, in the first ever victory directly on this point, the ACLU won a federal court decision holding that discrimination against a transgender person constitutes per se discrimination based on sex in ...

Opponents of a land swap between the District of Columbia and a Christian homeless shelter are suing to block the deal on the grounds that it violates the separation of church and state.

The Board of PJM Interconnection, the grid operator for 51 million people in 13 states and the District of Columbia, has promoted William H. Whitehead to the post of vice president - State Government Policy.