The latest body to request an investigation into the Department of Housing and Community Development is the agency itself after it was discovered this week that it spent $5.5 million in city funds for a nonprofit organization to renovate apartment buildings in deals that eventually went very, very bad more ›

The Department of Housing and Community Development has fired an employee involved with overseeing an apartment project by the youth outreach group Peaceoholics in which two Maryland developers allegedly defrauded the city of millions of dollars. more ›

In a press release Saturday afternoon, Councilmember Michael A. Brown (I-At Large) called for an investigation into the District Department of Housing and Community Development to determine if there has been any "unethical behavior and possible criminal malfeasance and collusion between contractors and current and former employees." more ›

As we wrote yesterday, there's really not much that the D.C. Council can do about Councilmember Harry Thomas, Jr. (D-Ward 5). A meeting between councilmembers only further proved that point. more ›

For everyone who was wondering why federal prosecutors were taking their sweet time in going after Councilmember Harry Thomas, Jr. (D-Ward 5) for steering $300,000 of city funds to himself, the wait may be over -- WTOP's Mark Segraves reported that the FBI is searching his home and car this morning. more ›

The Metropolitan Police Department is currently looking for help finding who killed a California man during a hit-and-run incident on the 1800 block of 6th Street NW on Sunday morning. more ›

In May, two Metro Transit Police officers were caught on video forcefully restraining and arresting a man outside the U Street Metro station. That wasn't enough evidence for federal investigators, however. more ›

When we first learned that Howard Brooks, the former consultant to Mayor Vince Gray, might have worn a wire as part of the federal investigation into Gray's mayoral campaign, we immediately wondered: did Brooks manage to get the Mayor on tape? more ›

A local man who was found dead on the tracks near the Rockville Metro station over the weekend has been identified, but officials are still not sure how or why he was there. more ›

Last night, we mentioned that Metro Transit Police were asking the public to help indentify whoever shot a man at an Oxon Hill bus stop on Sunday. But that's not the whole story. more ›

Another day, another investigation into potential fraud inside a city agency which has led to the termination of another city employee. This time around, it's the Department of Employment Services, which has fired interim associate director of unemployment compensation Gaby Fraser amid a D.C. Inspector General investigation into possible fraud. more ›

A Metropolitan Police Department officer has been removed from active duty and placed under investigation after she allegedly ignored a murder committed by a man with whom she was "romantically linked." more ›

This afternoon, the District's Office of Campaign Finance released the results of an investigation into allegedly improper campaign spending by D.C. Councilmember Yvette Alexander (D-Ward 7). The report found that Alexander did use her constituent services fund to fund her reelection campaign, but cleared her of other charges. more ›

WMATA believes that the man who was struck by a train at the Friendship Heights station yesterday afternoon -- causing massive delays and confusion during yesterday's afternoon commute -- was on the tracks accidentally. more ›

Last month, news broke that Cathedral Pharmacy, a retail fixture along Connecticut Avenue NW, was facing a murky future due to a contract dispute with its medication distributor CVS Caremark. In response, Ward 3 Councilmember Mary Cheh has requested that the city's Attorney General investigate whether or not the dispute represents unfair trade practices and a violation of District antitrust law. more ›

The Washington Humane Society is seeking information from the community about the heinous shooting of a dog last week. more ›

Dean Sanchez shared a building with Jean E. Louis for years, and always knew he was a little off. But when police stormed his Mt. Pleasant building last month and shot Louis after a protracted stand-off, Sanchez couldn't help but wonder if the deadly force was really necessary to deal with a man known to his neighbors as mentally distressed, though not violent. more ›

Dwight Harris, the man who was videotaped being forced from his wheelchair and bloodied by Metro Transit Police along U Street in May, was supposed to appear before a judge on Friday on misdemeanor assault charges. That won't be necessary now, though: all criminal charges against Harris have been dropped. more ›

Oh Pepco, when will we get over our on again/off again relationship? Too often we've been left in the dark by your absence and you're one too many ruffles because of it. Ward 7 D.C. council member Yvette Alexander wants the District's Public Service Commission to take a hard look at Pepco's recent spike of power outages across the area, going as far as calling the company's service "subpar." The increased scrutiny stems from an outage last week that left the downtown NoMa business district in the dark for two days. Pepco asserts that outages are rectified mostly within minutes or hours, however this latest blackout has drawn the ire of many business owners, residents and D.C. government officials. "You can't guarantee 100 percent service is never going to go out," said Pepco President Tom Graham to NBC4 while on site during repairs. more ›

The videotaped altercation between Dwight Harris and two transit police officers who appeared to violently restrain him outside the U Street Metro station last week has led to dropped charges and discipline for the officers involved. more ›

When I was in middle school, I was, for some reason, placed into the "gifted" student program. (Yup, sure putting that to good use.) Long story short, the program granted students one period a day to pursue independent academic pursuits with minimal supervision and no real culmination requirement. I, of course, used this as an excuse to play SimCity obsessively. I suppose what I'm getting at here is that I'm having a tougher time than normal condemning Virginia Department of Transportation employee Matthew Bolick, who was recently caught spending about 30 hours of on-the-clock time playing Civilization IV. more ›

Independence Avenue SW has been shut down to traffic between 4th and 7th Streets, as federal authorities investigate a suspicious vehicle. Twitter tipster @shawnredern has posted this photo from the scene at the intersection of 6th Street and Maryland Avenue, where vehicles have blocked off access. The real question: what kind of effect, if any, is this having on geographically-challenged newspaper hawkers up the street? more ›

For those of you concerned that the recent storms inside the highest reaches of the District's government would have a palpable effect on the city's already-strained relationship with Congress, well, your fears have been realized. Today, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform officially launched a probe into allegations made by Sulaimon Brown that people affiliated with Mayor Vince Gray gave him cash and offered him a job during last year's mayoral campaign. more ›

UPDATE: The unidentified package was deemed non-threatening. The Metropolitan Police Department is reportedly investigating a suspicious package at the intersection of 14th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NW near Pershing Park. According to DDOT, 14th Street is blocked to traffic in both directions from Pennsylvania Avenue to F Street NW. more ›

Sure, let's get totally crazy! Sinclair Skinner, the Adrian Fenty confidant who was a key figure in the D.C. Council's special investigation into the city's recreation construction contracts, sent out a long and winding press release this afternoon, calling for an investigation into Jim Graham's role in the Ted Loza bribery scandal. more ›

[This post has been updated to reflect new information.] D.C. police are currently investigating a dead body found in the alley behind the Ford's Theatre on the 900 block of F Street NW. Very little detail is available about the investigation: all we know at this point is that the body was found this morning, and police are not yet releasing any information regarding identity or possible causes of death. A tipster who works near the alley tells DCist that there are currently about five police officers working the scene. According to the eyewitness, the body was first noticed at some point before 9 a.m. Reports also now indicate that the deceased is a man who jumped from a nearby building. more ›

A Metropolitan Police Department spokesperson announced this evening that Assistant Chief Diane Groomes has been placed on administrative leave due to an investigation into accusations that she "compromised" a training test given to other officers. more ›

The latest chapter in a story which doesn't appear to be going away anytime soon: the Associated Press reports that officials with the Army found three more mismarked graves at Arlington National Cemetery last month. more ›

"This accident is a classic example of an organizational accident." more ›