Serena Williams withstood early and late surges from Garbine Muguruza to capture the women’s title in straight sets at the 2015 Wimbledon Championships on Saturday. The 6-4, 6-4 triumph gives her 21 career Grand Slam singles titles, three behind Margaret Court for the most in history. Williams now holds all four major titles at once—the […]
A woman is facing charges after police say she abandoned a 10-month-old in a stroller along a busy District of Columbia street. Police say 24-year-old Latonya Cooper was charged with second-degree cruelty to a child after she left the baby in a stroller in front of the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial on E Street […]
For 54 years the Confederate battle flag fluttered in the breeze on South Carolina’s Capitol grounds — proudly, defiantly. Through passionate pleadings and stormy condemnations to lower it, to hide it from plain sight. On Friday, at 9:45 a.m. ET, it comes down. It will be lowered for the last time, furled and sent to […]
Baltimore’s mayor fired the troubled city’s police commissioner Wednesday, saying that a recent spike in homicides in the weeks after an unarmed black man died of injuries in police custody required a change in leadership. Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake thanked Police Commissioner Anthony Batts for his service — and praised the job he had done — […]
DC Superior Court Judge Stewart Nash ruled in favor of Bishop Joel R. Peebles and the original Board Of Trustees. The decision by Judge Nash removes the six employee/church members from having any control over the church and no access to church funds. The judge found that this group of six people illegally seized control through a well devised hostile takeover, during the prolonged […]
Columbia, South Carolina (CNN)The Confederate battle flag, a polarizing fixture on South Carolina’s statehouse grounds for half a century, will flap in the wind no longer. Early Thursday, the House of Representatives voted 94-20 to remove it, giving final approval to a bill that passed the Senate earlier in the week. The vote count was […]
It’s a famous policy at the original Ben’s Chili Bowl: Only two people eat free:President Barack Obama and comedian Bill Cosby. But as Ben’s opens its newest and largest location on H Street NW Wednesday, it has to face the question of what to do about that long-standing association, as accusations of drugging and raping […]
A D.C. man was punched repeatedly and stabbed as many 20 times before his killer kicked his bloody body as he lay dying on the floor of a Metro train, court documents released Tuesday say. Jasper Spires, 18, of D.C., appeared in court Tuesday afternoon to face a first-degree murder charge for the death of […]
Starbucks is raising prices again starting Tuesday, with the increases ranging from 5 to 20 cents for most affected drinks, the company said. The Seattle-based company also raised prices nationally about a year ago. A small and large brewed coffee will each go up by 10 cents in most areas of the country, Starbucks says. […]
Bill Cosby has admitted to getting prescription Quaaludes to give to women he wanted to have sex with, newly released documents show. The documents, dating back to 2005, stem from a civil lawsuit filed by Andrea Constand — one of the dozens of women who have publicly accused the comedian of sexual assault. The records […]