San Diego Fireworks Malfunction In Quick, Show-stopping Flash As Hundreds Of Thousands Watch

D.C. Council member Tommy Wells turned the city’s young mayoral contest into a race Saturday, becoming the second candidate to formally declare his intention to seek the city’s top public office. Wells (D-Ward 6) used his campaign kickoff event, held along a fast-developing corridor in Northeast, to lay out a vision of replicating his home ward’s transformation in other parts of the city while placing a strong emphasis on issues of integrity in city government. Read full article >>    

The day before the University of Virginia's real graduation -- formally called "Final Exercises" -- the school hosts the "Valedictory Exercises" to recognize top students and favorite professors and feature a speaker who is sometimes a little more fun than the formal commencement speaker. Read full article >>    

Montgomery County high school students have been failing their final exams in math at high rates for five years, according to data released Friday night by school officials. The new figures are similar to those released several weeks ago for January’s exams, which showed high failure rates across seven high school math courses — with a majority of the 30,000 Montgomery students who took the tests flunking. Read full article >>    

The owners of a vineyard who landed Virginia’s first deal to sell wine in China were so thankful for the help of the state officials who negotiated the agreement that they decided to show their gratitude. Read full article >>    

Brittany Lofton spots them all the time: teens and college students clutching their beat-up cellphones, with screens so cracked that spider-web-like patterns creep across the glass. Sure, the screen’s razory shards make reading a text and posting Instagram photos super blurry, not to mention slightly painful. Read full article >>