Democrats in the House and Senate have introduced legislation that would make Washington, D.C. the 51st state in the union and give its residents a real voice in the chambers. The Senate legislation garnered 17 co-sponsors, slightly less than the same legislation…

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal is in Iowa this week and he is hitting in hard with three town hall appearances across the state and a new television ad where he tells Iowans how “tired of hyphenated Americans” he is. “I’m tired of…

A court in Virginia awarded a man $500,000 in damages after his doctors brutally mocked him while he was sedated for a routine colonoscopy. Before going under for the surgery, the man — only identified in court documents as D.B….

A report released Thursday by the city’s auditor found the D.C. fire department hasn’t implemented most of the recommended revisions that came down in 2006 after a New York Times editor was mugged, and eventually died, but emergency crews mistook him as…

Family members of a man who died in a District of Columbia train station are suing the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority for $100 million dollars after they say station workers did nothing to help the man. In a lawsuit…

Son to D.C.’s infamous ‘Mayor for Life’ Marion Barry pleaded guilty Wednesday to assault charges stemming from a January outburst in which he threw a trash can at a teller in a downtown bank. Despite already being on probation, Marion Christopher Barry…