After initial reports that an Occupy D.C. demonstrator threw a brick at a U.S. Park Police officer during Saturday's crackdown on the protest movement's camp at McPherson Square, court documents released Monday said it was in fact a bottle of Coca-Cola. more ›

UPDATE (11:30 a.m.): Well, I suppose we can chuck this one into the pudding pile. more ›

In today’s crime roundup “Sticky” is back in custody, the Virginia Department of Forensic Science is reevaluating DNA evidence tested in 375 cases, a stabbing in Frederick, and angels in Adams Morgan. more ›

The trial against the three defendants charged with covering up the murder of Robert Wone begins its final wrap-up today, with closing arguments starting at 10 a.m. this morning in D.C. Superior Court. Since it was not a jury trial, Judge Lynn Leibovitz will deliberate the fate of Joseph Price, Dylan Ward and Victor Zaborsky, none of whom testified on their behalf. They face sentences of up to 35 years for obstruction of justice and conspiracy charges and up to 38 years for tampering with evidence. As always, click over to Who Murdered Robert Wone? for a liveblog of today's events and updates on the trial. more ›

This comes courtesy DC Agenda, which had exclusive access to the courthouse nuptials of Jeremy Moon and Bryan Legaspi earlier this morning. Their marriage, officiated by D.C. Superior Court Judge Brook Hedge, took place at roughly the same time as a religious ceremony joining James Betz and Robert Hawthorne went on outside the courthouse. The two couples marked the first legally recognized same-sex weddings to be performed in the District of Columbia on March 9. more ›

DCist photographer Michael Starghill was on hand at the H. Carl Moultrie Courthouse in downtown D.C. this morning, and captured these images as the expectant crowd waited for the first same-sex couples to apply for marriage licenses to emerge. Read more about the morning here. more ›

If you and your partner wanted to be among the first to file for a same-sex marriage license in the District of Columbia, you needed to get up pretty early this morning. Angelisa Young and Sinjolya Townsend, officially the first couple in line today at the H. Carl Moultrie Courthouse's Marriage Bureau office, arrived at 6 a.m., ready to wait. As patiently as they could, anyway. more ›

Local entrepreneurs are scrambling to get in on the ground floor of the District's impending same-sex marriage nuptials, whether it's wedding planners, photographers, caterers, you name it. There's real money to be made here, not to mention the additional potential of endearing yourself to the LGBT community on the whole. Gay marriage is just good business at this point. more ›

Barring some unforeseen development, the last legal hurdle that might have prevented the District's same-sex marriage law from going into effect was removed last week. D.C. Council member David Catania's gay marriage countdown clock reads "2 Days!" as of this morning, and both the city government and the D.C. Superior Court have now released helpful instructions for couples looking to waste no time in getting their applications in. Here's how it'll work: more ›

Opponents of marriage equality may be persistent, but they're also persistently getting shot down. On Friday, yet another D.C. Superior Court judge refused to overturn a decision by the D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics prohibiting a vote on same-sex marriage. So far, the board has knocked down three attempts to put marriage equality on a District ballot, and just last month a judge agreed with the board's reasoning that any such vote would violate the D.C. Human Rights Act. more ›

A judge has once again ruled against Bishop Harry Jackson in his quest to put same-sex marriage on the District's ballot. In a decision handed down by Superior Court Judge Judith Macaluso Thursday, the court found that the D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics had properly ruled late last year that such a vote would violate the city's Human Rights Act. (The full decision can be downloaded here in .PDF.) more ›

Looks like Ingmar Guandique, the man suspected of killing Chandra Levy, has finally arrived in D.C. today to face murder charges in Levy's death. Guandique, you'll recall, has been serving a 10-year sentence in a federal prison in California for attacking two other women in the park around the same time of Levy's disappearance. He's expected to appear before a D.C. Superior Court judge as early as tomorrow, reports the Post. more ›