Six students from area universities were arrested yesterday on Capitol Hill during a protest for D.C. budget autonomy and statehood. more ›

The sidewalk outside a Bank of America on Vermont Avenue NW is the cool place to camp out these days, with five more members of Occupy D.C. arrested Friday morning after sleeping under the ATM. more ›

In the year since 41 residents were arrested on Capitol Hill during a protest for D.C. voting rights and self-determination, the city has seen slow and uneven progress towards budget autonomy. more ›

After a rash of robberies has put residents and police in the District on high alert, everyone seemed to sign a breath of relief last night when police announced that they had made two arrests. But then there were three more robberies this morning. more ›

Four people were arrested this morning after hanging a "Tibet Will Be Free" banner off of the Memorial Bridge. more ›

Eight people from Occupy D.C. were arrested and scores of tents removed as U.S. Park Police spent the day enforcing the ban on camping in McPherson Square in what was by far the largest show of force yet agains the four-month-old protest. more ›

They didn't get a rocket launcher or hand grenades, but officers from the Metropolitan Police Department and FBI did manage to seize 161 weapons and $7.2 million worth of drugs and make 70 arrests in a huge bust announced today. more ›

Not seemingly content with just living in tents over the last two months, Occupy D.C. protesters erected a wooden barn-like structure in McPherson Square early Sunday morning, provoking a nine-hour standoff with U.S. Park Police that ended in the arrest of 31 people. more ›

In case you weren't sure, it is indeed very illegal to operate an unlicensed operation in which you inject silicone into the buttocks of women inside D.C. hotel rooms in exchange for cash. more ›

Due to the recent raids on four head shops two weeks ago, it appears that the Chinatown location of Capitol Hemp may close for good. more ›

This morning, Mayor Vince Gray and Metropolitan Police Department Chief Cathy Lanier updated the public on the investigations into several shootings which took place last night. more ›

UPDATE (3 p.m.): Huffington Post reports that Adam Eidinger, who owns Capitol Hemp, has claimed that a political motive exists for the raids. more ›

Yesterday, the Metropolitan Police Department announced that they had made two arrests in connection with the fatal shooting of 22-year-old Demetrius Emmanuel Thompson on a Metrobus last Thursday. more ›

The D.C. Council stepped up this morning and did away with the controversial D.C. police practice of arresting drivers whose registration has lapsed. more ›

The District has gotten plenty of grief in the last week over news that police officers have been throwing handcuffs on drivers that forgot to renew their registrations. Tomorrow that should change. more ›

The 19 people who were arrested yesterday on the steps of the Supreme Court -- including civil rights activist Cornel West and local R&B singer Raheem DeVaughn -- will not be charged with any crimes. more ›

This week, Mayor Vince Gray introduced legislation to end a controversial practice of arresting drivers with expired registrations. Kristopher Baumann, chairman of the Fraternal Order of Police’s Metropolitan Police Department Labor Committee, argues that the only reason the law may be changed is that a series of scandals have made Gray and the D.C. Council vulnerable to political pressure from both inside and outside the District. more ›

After a rash of incidents in which drivers were arrested by D.C. police for having lapsed registrations, pretty much everyone seems to think that a solution is necessary. The problem is that no one seems to be clear on where that solution will be coming from. more ›

Who needs Animal Cops? The District's police and the Washington Humane Society are kicking plenty of tail without the reality TV cameras. more ›

Can the D.C. police actually throw you in the clink for having an expired registration? more ›

Yesterday, authorities arrested four men in connection with a massive bribery scheme inside the Army Corps of Engineers. The details of the alleged crime should ring familiar for many D.C. residents. more ›

UPDATE (11:45 a.m.): Federal investigators are now raiding eight other buildings in the District and Virginia in connection with the bribery claims. The names of the the four arrested had not yet been released, though Machen will hold a press conference this afternoon to identify them and the complete slate of charges. more ›

Yesterday, we noted that the student-operated Georgetown Voice was being forced out of their longtime on-campus newsroom. Of course, after we read a little bit more about the circumstances, we figured it deserved a little more attention. more ›

By the time eight D.C. voting rights activists actually go on trial, it will have been a full seven months since they were arrested in a series of protests on Capitol Hill. Seven months. more ›

A D.C. judge ruled yesterday that Mayor Vince Gray won't have to testify at the trial of a resident arrested at a D.C. voting rights protest earlier this year. more ›

A fight over whether Mayor Vince Gray should appear as a defense witness led to the postponement of Ward 6 ANC Commissioner Keith Silver's trial on disorderly conduct charges stemming from his arrest at a voting rights protest. more ›

Last week's arrest of two journalists at a public meeting of the D.C. Taxicab Commission highlighted something of a loophole in the District's new Open Meetings law -- it doesn't say anything about whether the public or the press are allowed to record the proceedings, or when a commission, board or agency can limit or prohibit it. That looks like it's going to change. more ›