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Four All-Stars, two MVPs, a whole new Splash Family in Golden State. Kevin Durant’s decision to join the Warriors on Monday sent tremors through the NBA, and players and executives throughout the league immediately started to contemplate how the newest super team would alter the landscape. “Thats crazy!!!! KD in GSW????” Wizards center Marcin Gortat […]
With several parades and various events celebrating Independence Day in and around the District, it may be difficult to get around town. Here’s a rundown of transportation changes and options to help you get around on Monday, July 4: In D.C., parking restrictions are only enforced along the parade route on Constitution Avenue and near Nationals […]
In addition to barbecuing, beer-drinking, and fireworks-watching, we’d like to suggest another way to celebrate July 4th: Taking a quiz on American history and politics! The U.S. Citizenship test features 100 civics questions, and hopeful American citizens are asked up to 10 of these during an interview. They have to answer six out of the […]
The Fairfax County School Board will vote later this month on whether to create a work group aimed at renaming a high school named after a Confederate Army general. If it’s created, the work group would be made up of students, parents, alumni, members of the community and business and community leaders with the goal of renaming J.E.B. Stuart […]
When it comes to safe driving, the District and surrounding areas rank among the worst places in the country, according to a new report from the insurance company Allstate. Of the nation’s 200 largest cities, the D.C. region is nearly dead last. “It is at the bottom of the list, so there’s definitely room for improvement,” […]
A roundtable at D.C.’s Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library included emotional testimony from people touched by gun violence. Continuing the efforts of their sit-in on the floor of the House last week calling for more gun control, Democrats declared Wednesday a National Day of Action for Gun Violence Prevention. Events were held around the […]
The leader of D.C. Public Schools announced Wednesday that she is stepping down from the role she has held since 2010. On Wednesday, D.C. Public Schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson announced she is leaving the job and her last day will be Sept. 30, 2016. “Simply put, I am ready to take on new challenges, and […]
Former television judge Joe Brown cannot practice law in Tennessee under an order from the state Supreme Court. According to The Commercial Appeal (http://bit.ly/292mXhT), the state’s highest court has placed Brown on disability inactive status, which designates that a lawyer is temporarily disabled and incapacitated from practicing law. Lawyers can resume practice when they prove […]
Civil rights leader and former congressional delegate Walter Fauntroy has been released from custody after a judge recalled an arrest warrant for him. Fauntroy was arrested Monday at Dulles International Airport on an outstanding warrant for writing a bad check in Maryland. On Tuesday, a Maryland judge recalled that warrant and scheduled a new hearing […]
Police arrested a former D.C. congressional delegate and civil rights leader at Dulles International Airport Monday as he returned from four years overseas. Former D.C. delegate and civil rights leader Walter Fauntroy was picked up by border patrol Monday after arriving on a flight from Dubai to Dulles. The 83-year-old is wanted in Prince George’s […]