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Byline: Victoria St. Martin He noticed the light-headedness first. Then there was stifling heat, which made everything seem to be moving in slow motion. And by the time Oscar Rodriguez, [...]

Byline: Victoria St. Martin In a way, when environmental researcher Ami Zota looks at data about patterns of cosmetics use by women of color in 2023, she's gazing back in [...]

Byline: Victoria St. Martin In July 1957, a newly created federal agency launched an aggressive and advanced program to eradicate a parasitic disease that had vexed state and local health [...]

Byline: Victoria St. Martin For once, Clare Johnson wasn't the only one in her family talking about the effects of climate change on children. Usually, Johnson finds herself initiating conversations [...]

Byline: Victoria St. Martin Fame has finally found Katherine Johnson -- and it only took a half-century, six manned moon landings, a best-selling book and an Oscar-nominated movie. For more [...]

Byline: Victoria St. Martin A teenager who was arrested for allegedly stealing a 65-cent carton of milk from a middle school cafeteria will not face trial after prosecutors decided to [...]

Byline: Victoria St. Martin Laura Metro was returning from a run during a summer vacation at the Delaware shore when her daughter, Maison, made an announcement straight from a parent's [...]

Byline: Lynh Bui;Victoria St. Martin A Ford Mustang and at least two other cars were speeding and weaving in and out of traffic moments before triggering a crash that killed [...]

Byline: Victoria St. Martin Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.), the House majority whip, was in fair condition Friday, a hospital official announced, more than a week after a shooting at a [...]

Byline: Victoria St. Martin The FBI is searching for a man who investigators said inappropriately touched a girl during a ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery, according to a wanted poster. [...]

Byline: Victoria St. Martin A 43-year-old Mitchellville man was identified as the victim in a fatal shooting in Suitland over the holiday weekend, police said. Bruce Coley was found suffering [...]

Byline: Victoria St. Martin For nine years, a pair of peregrine falcons have made their home in an unlikely place: the smokestacks of a Virginia power plant. But animal researchers [...]

Byline: Victoria St. Martin An officer-involved shooting of a Manassas teen was ruled justified by Prince William County Commonwealth's Attorney Paul Ebert, authorities announced Tuesday. The teen, 18-year-old Luis Daniel [...]

Byline: Victoria St. Martin A 104-year-old woman died in a house fire in Virginia, authorities said. Her name was not released, but fire officials said she was one of three [...]

Byline: Dana Hedgpeth;Victoria St. Martin Two neighbors had long disagreed about the property line between their homes in Virginia. On Sunday, that disagreement turned deadly, when an 80-year-old man fatally [...]

Byline: Victoria St. Martin Two 19-year-old Maryland men were taken into custody and charged in connection with the discovery of a noose hanging on the front a middle school, a [...]

Byline: Ron Charles;Victoria St. Martin;Peggy McGlone;Vince Rinehart;Azhar AlFadl Miranda;Twila Waddy;Lynh Bui;Jim Webster It doesn't matter whether the maternal figure in your life worked daily magic in the kitchen or saw [...]

Byline: Victoria St. Martin Sipping a red sports drink from a straw, smartwatch on her wrist, and curled, shoulder-length hair framing her face, Victoria Graham looks every bit the beauty [...]

Byline: Tom Jackman;Victoria St. Martin Joaquin S. Rams, accused of killing his 15-month-old son in 2012 to collect more than $500,000 in life insurance benefits on the boy, was found [...]

Byline: Tom Jackman;Victoria St. Martin Joaquin S. Rams, accused of killing his 15-month-old son in 2012 to collect more than $500,000 in life insurance benefits on the boy, was found [...]

Byline: Victoria St. Martin A National Rifle Association employee accidentally shot himself at the organization's shooting range in Virginia, police said. The 46-year-old man was injured Thursday at NRA's headquarters [...]

Byline: Victoria St. Martin Loudoun County authorities are investigating the death of a young child who was found in a retention pond Thursday afternoon. The 3-year-old boy was found about [...]

Byline: Victoria St. Martin You might not know it, but there's a 'cheetah cub boom' at a Smithsonian institute in Virginia. Two litters were born in one week at the [...]

Byline: Victoria St. Martin So the escalators are not working and there is a line to use the elevator to get to the metro ! #DC #wmata pic.twitter.com/7NnyvrL0A0 The entrance [...]

MARYLAND Teen accused of plotting high school violence is jailed The 18-year-old accused of planning violence at her Maryland high school has been released from Frederick Memorial Hospital and jailed, [...]

Byline: Victoria St. Martin The 18-year-old accused of planning violence at her Maryland high school has been released from Frederick Memorial Hospital and jailed, authorities said. Nicole Cevario's parents alerted [...]

Byline: Dana Hedgpeth;Victoria St. Martin And here comes the sibling. A second bald eagle hatched Thursday afternoon in a nest at the U.S. National Arboretum in Northeast Washington. Another sibling [...]

Byline: Victoria St. Martin A painting is the center of an ongoing University of Maryland theft investigation, said a spokeswoman who announced Tuesday that authorities are trying to identify three [...]

Byline: Victoria St. Martin She waltzed inside the store's stockroom, tucked more than $40,000 worth of iPhones inside a box and walked out. Fairfax County police said the mystery thief, [...]

Byline: Clarence Williams;Victoria St. Martin A toddler and a man were found fatally shot Thursday night inside a Waldorf townhouse, where two female victims also were critically wounded during a [...]

Byline: Victoria St. Martin Authorities released more details Thursday about an officer-involved shooting that left a 32-year-old man in critical condition. The man, who D.C. police identified as Michael Leach [...]

Byline: Victoria St. Martin He hid inside the department store until it closed, police said. Then, authorities said, the man collected more than $830,000 worth of jewelry -- including a [...]

Byline: Victoria St. Martin;Clarence Williams Authorities are investigating a D.C. police officer-involved shooting Wednesday that left a man in critical condition, authorities said. The man had a gun and was [...]

Byline: Victoria St. Martin Police identified a 61-year-old man whose body was found in a Rockville home that exploded last week and said that he had committed suicide. Authorities said [...]

THE DISTRICT Man held after bomb threat at White House A Virginia man arrested after falsely reporting that his car trunk contained a bomb at a Secret Service checkpoint outside [...]

Byline: Victoria St. Martin Laura Tarantino would love to adopt a child. But under Virginia law, she cannot try for now. In 2009, when she was 21, Tarantino was arrested [...]

Byline: Clarence Williams;Victoria St. Martin A nationwide outage of 911 service affected AT&T Wireless customers for about 90 minutes Wednesday night, including service in the District and suburban jurisdictions. 'Aware [...]

Byline: Victoria St. Martin Fire officials were searching Thursday night for a person who went missing from a Maryland home during a large blaze. Authorities said a fire broke out [...]

Byline: Victoria St. Martin Fire officials were searching Thursday night for a person who went missing from a Maryland home during a large blaze. Authorities said a fire broke out [...]

Byline: Victoria St. Martin A boy and four adults were injured when gunfire broke out in Northeast Washington, D.C. police said Thursday night. The shooting happened around 9:30 p.m. in [...]

Byline: Victoria St. Martin Three Virginia lawmakers have asked state environmental officials to give the public two more months to study a controversial plan by Dominion Virginia Power to drain [...]

Byline: Victoria St. Martin;Martin Weil A woman was fatally stabbed and a man was seriously wounded in the Manassas area of Prince William County Friday night in what the county [...]

Byline: Victoria St. Martin A man died Monday in a single-vehicle collision after his car left the road and hit a traffic signal control box, Montgomery County police said. Authorities [...]

Byline: Victoria St. Martin An estimated 3.3 million gallons of raw sewage went into a Maryland creek before crews could divert the discharge after a sewer main break at a [...]

Byline: Victoria St. Martin A sewer main break at a wastewater treatment plant forced more than 1 million gallons of water to overflow at the Prince George's County facility, a [...]

Byline: Victoria St. Martin A day after joining a court fight challenging the legality of President Donald Trump's ban on travelers from seven countries, the Commonwealth of Virginia asked federal [...]

Byline: Victoria St. Martin A 30-year-old Laurel Department of Public Works employee died Monday morning after an SUV slammed into a trash truck, a spokeswoman said. The employee, Marcus Colbert [...]

Byline: Amy Joyce;Victoria St. Martin About 200 protesters shimmied and sashayed their way through the Chevy Chase neighborhood Wednesday night toward the house temporarily rented by Vice President-elect Mike Pence [...]

MARYLAND Life sentence for man in killing of counselor A former Maryland physician who fatally stabbed his mental-health counselor 15 years ago was sentenced Friday to life in prison without [...]

THE DISTRICT Arrests made in two slayings from 2016 Two men were arrested Friday in connection with separate killings in Southeast Washington, D.C. police said. The men were identified as [...]