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Washington Post
6 days ago
- Washington Post
‘Illegal fireworks' bring arrests on Fourth in D.C.
One of Washington's great official traditions is the annual fireworks show on the Fourth of July. What seems to be a sort of unofficial tradition is the detonation of prohibited fireworks in neighborhoods, and on the holiday, the D.C. police said they cracked down. Fifteen people were arrested late Friday and early Saturday in the Navy Yard area of Southeast Washington 'on fireworks related charges,' police said.
Washington Post
7 days ago
- Washington Post
Three-year-old in critical condition after shooting in Southeast D.C.
A 3-year-old girl is in critical condition from a gunshot wound to her upper body after a shooting early Saturday in Southeast Washington, according to D.C. police. At least one suspect began firing a weapon in the 1000 block of 14th Street SE around 3 a.m., hitting a parked vehicle where the young child was seated alongside family members, police said.
Washington Post
11-06-2025
- Washington Post
Distraught man perched high on D.C. radio tower for over 24 hours, police say
A man who scaled a radio tower on American University's campus Tuesday afternoon was still perched a few hundred feet in the air late Wednesday, refusing to come down after more than 24 hours, D.C. police said. The unidentified man is experiencing a mental health crisis and has threatened to jump from the tower, police said. The tower is 321-feet high, according to radio station WAMU-FM. The man was roughly halfway up.
Washington Post
10-06-2025
- Politics
- Washington Post
House votes to repeal D.C. laws on noncitizen voting, police discipline
House lawmakers voted Tuesday to repeal a pair of D.C. laws that have been friction points for years between the deep-blue city and Republicans in Congress: a law allowing noncitizens to vote in local elections and another that prohibits the D.C. police union from bargaining on officer discipline. The two efforts would still have to pass in the Senate.
Washington Post
09-06-2025
- Washington Post
Do kids feel safe in D.C.? We asked them.
In 2023, crime surged in the District as homicides reached levels not seen in a generation. By the year's end, D.C. police had made more than 500 arrests of people under age 18 for violent crimes — the most in a single year since 2004. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 20 from that age group had died in homicides. Teens with no previous criminal records were being arrested 'because they put a gun in somebody's face,' said then-D.C. Police Chief Robert J. Contee III at a crime summit in 2023. Students changed schools in fear only to find they could not escape the violence. A council member urged parents to keep their children indoors: 'It's not safe in D.C.'
