POLICE shot a gunman and safely freed the three people he had taken hostage in an hours-long standoff at the Discovery Channel headquarters outside Washington, police said.

Authorities say a fire broke out in the roof of The Phillips Collection art museum in Dupont Circle.

Police say the gunman who took three people hostage at the Discovery Channel network's programming has died after they shot him.

UPDATE II: The hostage-taker at the Discovery Channel headquarters in Silver Spring, Md., has been shot, and his three hostages are believed to be safe, MSNBC has reported.

Rarely in my long, sweet life as a press critic have I knocked a newspaper or a news channel or a magazine for "over-covering" a subject.

D.C. Mayor Adrian M. Fenty on Wednesday apologized for his aloof management style, vowing to do better by the city's residents as he tried to use the latest one-on-one debate to cut into the considerable polling lead that D.C. Council Chairman Vincent C. Gray is riding into the Sept.