D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty realizes his disconnect with district residents could cost him the job he was as elected to four years ago, he said during a Sept.

Elections officials say thousands of voters have taken advantage of Labor Day weekend for early voting in Washington.

Fisherman Wily Dean was trying to catch cow-nosed rays in Southern Maryland's Potomac River for a marine biologist this week, but he ended up netting an 8-foot-long bull shark.

Police say the man entered the home in the 3800 block of S Street in northwest Washington about 7:30 a.m. Sunday.

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.

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