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The D.C. Board of Elections is still working to determine whether the backers of Initiative 82, the renewed effort to raise the District’s base minimum wage for tipped workers, qualified for the ballot.

Maryland seniors would see up to a $1,750 tax cut next year under a deal state leaders announced Monday over how to spend much of a historic surplus.

A vehicle smashed into a Chipotle restaurant in Woodbridge.

Severe thunderstorms are possible on Thursday.

“It gives me goosebumps thinking about the kid that wrote that, thinking they did it, they got that dog a home,” said Marie Lucas, who adopted one of the rescue dogs.

There is a problem with a track at the Dunn Loring station.

It’s the first set of eggs for bald eagle parents Mr. President and his partner Lotus (Lady of the United States).

Mark Wrighton, George Washington University's interim president, arrived at a university in turmoil. Now he'll work to stabilize the campus.

Hundreds of readers sent in their haiku. Here are my favorites.

Las Vegas and Death Valley soared to 93 and 104 degrees, setting March records.