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Thousands of elementary students were suspended from public schools last year in Washington and its suburbs, many of them so young that they were learning about out-of-school discipline before they mastered spelling or arithmetic.
Prosecutors in the George Huguely V murder case continued to lay the building blocks of their case Monday, calling a series of Charlottesville police officers.
Funeral arrangements have been made for Joshua A. Weissman, the Alexandria paramedic who was killed as he responded to a car fire last week.
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A heated neighborhood dispute about whether a developer should be allowed to build a house on a “pipestem” lot in the middle of an Arlington County block, surrounded on all sides by other houses, came to a quiet end Saturday.
Walkersville Elementary officials reverse course after a valentines ban last year because of “inappropriate interactions between boys and girls in the classroom.”
Mayor Gray’s One City Summit is only going to be as worthless as the people who don’t show up.
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Last year, Republicans captured all the seats on the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors. Now, the party hopes to make the county a stronghold in this year’s elections.
Hundreds of folks stripped down and took to their unmentionables Saturday for the third annual Cupid’s Undie Run in the District.
Caroline Middle School’s large multiracial population wouldn’t be possible without Mildred and Richard Loving, a couple from the school’s county whose Supreme Court case 45 years ago paved the way for mixed-race marriages.
Trump’s plan for the Old Post Office Pavilion isn’t the first indication of his influence in the Washington region.
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Two days before the brutal death University of Virginia's Yeardley Love, George Huguely accused her of having sex with another man and then allegedly sent her an email saying, "I should have killed you."
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