By Frederic J. Frommer-Associated Press

WASHINGTON — On a baseball field, players back up teammates to limit the damage from errors. The Justice Department, embarrassed by an error that caused …

By ALEXANDER BURNS |Politico

The long, draining Republican primary season may finally have reached a turning point Tuesday, with Mitt Romney on his way to sweeping three contests in Wisconsin, Maryland and the District of Columbia, and potentially dealing a decisive blow …

Audit turns up millions in overpayments by city

The District shelled out nearly $700,000 in Medicaid payments for dead people, with one payment occurring nearly nine years after the patient died, a new audit has found.

The gaffes are part of nearly $4 …

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WASHINGTON — Dozens of U.S. Park Police officers in riot gear and on horseback converged before dawn Saturday on one of the nation’s last remaining Occupy sites.

Officers arrived and placed barricades around McPherson Square, a …

By Annie Gowen, Washington Post
Occupy D.C. protesters spent Monday night huddled under the celestial sweep of a blue tarp they had erected in McPherson Square, talking, singing and, yes, sleeping — in defiance of rules that prohibit overnight camping …

By Tom Howell Jr.-The Washington Times

Officials in the District are accustomed to asking Congress for full voting rights on behalf of the city’s 600,000 residents or for greater control of city finances – and getting no satisfaction.

So when members of Congress proposed …

By RYAN TRACY
WASHINGTON—”Occupy DC” protesters prepared to lead a march to the Capitol Tuesday as Congress returns from a winter break, the latest signal that the residents of a tent city here have no plans to go home.

But pressure was …

By Tom Howell Jr. and Andrea Noble-The Washington Times

Kevin B. Chavous, a key challenger for the Ward 7 D.C. Council seat in next year’s elections, was arrested early Friday on accusations he offered money to an undercover officer “for sexual …

Athena Jones, CNN

Washington (CNN) – U.S. Park Police surrounded a wood structure erected Sunday by Occupy DC protesters, with a standoff ensuing and several arrests being made, according to witnesses.

The structure was built overnight in McPherson Square as a place where …

By Luke Rosiak-The Washington Times

D.C. Council member Tommy Wells on Wednesday called for the elimination of special funds the city’s lawmakers are supposed to use to help the needy – money critics consider “slush funds” rarely tapped to help residents.

A Washington …