WASHINGTON — A new report names the D.C. region the fittest of the 50 biggest metropolitan areas in the country, based on a combination of health and lifestyle factors, for the second year in a row. The American College of Sports Medicine and the Anthem Foundation released the 2015 American Fitness Index data Tuesday. The Washington […]
WASHINGTON — Metro is facing another passel of problems on the Red Line Tuesday morning. Trains are single-tracking between Medical Center and Friendship Heights, after they had been temporarily suspended, following a fire department response to a report of a track fire. The Bethesda station, which was temporarily closed, has reopened, but only DC-bound trains […]
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA — finally his his own Twitter Account. Hello, Twitter! It’s Barack,” his first tweet read Monday. “Really! Six years in, they’re finally giving me my own account.” With just a few typed words, it appears that Obama becomes the first sitting U.S. president to announce his own Twitter account, from which […]
Thousands of hopefuls have auditioned for BET’s Sunday Best, striving to be the next big thing in gospel. When they don’t make it, the show’s host and producer, Kirk Franklin, 45, says he sometimes struggles with deep guilt. In a new blog post titled, “How To Know When To Let Go Of Your Dream,” Franklin […]
Police have arrested a suspect on a cruise ship in Alaska and charged him with a double murder after he confessed to killing a Maryland couple found slain on Mother’s Day, police said Sunday. Montgomery County police announced Scott Tomaszewski, 31, of Rockville, Maryland, was arrested Saturday in Juneau, Alaska, based on a warrant from […]
Raven-Symone might be from every continent in Africa, but she doesn’t think Harriet Tubman should be on the $20 bill. One of the biggest trending topics on Wednesday, May 13th was that abolitionist Harriet Tubman was leading a poll to replace Andrew Jackson as the new visage on our money. Well, the former Cosby Show star was guest […]
A Georgia educator who was caught on camera calling out “all the black people” for leaving a graduation ceremony during the valedictorian’s speech has been fired. “‘In light of recent events, the board of directors of TNT Academy has moved to dismiss Nancy Gordeuk as principal,” says a letter obtained by CNN. Heidi Anderson, chairwoman […]
Riley B. King, the legendary guitarist known as B.B. King, whose velvety voice and staccato-picking style brought blues from the margins to the mainstream, died Thursday night. He was 89. His daughter, Patty King, said he died in Las Vegas, where he announced two weeks ago that he was in home hospice care after suffering […]
Two new D.C. Council members with close ties to the mayor will be sworn into office Thursday. Voters elected new council members to fill the Ward 4 seat left vacant by the election of Mayor Muriel Bowser and the Ward 8 seat left vacant by the death of longtime city leader Marion Barry. Brandon Todd, […]
No one has determined what caused the catastrophic Amtrak train crash in Philadelphia, but the city’s mayor has all but indicted the train’s engineer. Initial data showed the train was barreling into a curve at more than 100 mph before the derailment, the National Transportation Safety Board said. That’s more than twice the 50-mph speed […]