Lots of people have a bucket list—the things they want to do before they, well, kick the bucket. Now you can list an idea or two in a very public way. more ›

Twitter got itself in a bind this afternoon with rumors that the Grandfather of Go-Go, Mr. Chuck Brown himself, had passed. Fear not—it's not true. "Just rumors," said Tom Goldfogle, Brown's publicist. more ›

The death of a baby girl left on the doorstep of a Northeast home in January has been ruled a homicide, reports WTOP. more ›

The Nationals are introducing the StrasBurger—a massive, flame-kissed mound of ground beef weighing in at eight pounds before toppings and condiments. But a new Harvard study says eating red meat can be fatal. more ›

Police are investigating after a man's body was found dead Sunday morning just off the National Mall near the bank of the Potomac River. more ›

Sad news from WAMU today with the announcement that the public radio station's longtime bluegrass DJ, Jerry Gray, died Thursday at his home in Virginia. In an obituary, the City Paper reports that Gray, whose real name was Gerald Poulsen, died of complications from a heart transplant operation he underwent in 1989. He was 78. more ›

Police in the District are still looking for suspects in the tragic death of an infant girl that was left outside a home in Northeast on a freezing winter night in mid-January. more ›

Joe Paterno, the winningest coach in college football history, has died at 85, his family announced this morning. The Washington Post has released audio excerpts of its interview with Paterno in the Penn State legend's only public comments since his dismissal in the wake of the Jerry Sandusky scandal. more ›

No one will be charged in the death of GW grad student and Afghanistan war vet Patrick Casey. more ›

Black Cat Bill isn't dead! But we're still idiots for having reported that he was. We're sorry. more ›

No, seriously. According to NPR, millions of flies around Washington have been "attacked by a mind-controlling fungus" over the last few months, turning them into little more than doomed spreaders of a deadly curse. more ›

This morning, a man was killed in Mount Pleasant after a tree branch fell on him while he was walking in the 3200 block of Adams Mill Road NW. more ›

The 39-year-old McLean resident who was struck by a train at the Clarendon station on October 11 has now died, Metro officials have confirmed. more ›

The family of the man who died outside DC9 nearly one year ago is planning on filing a wrongful death lawsuit against the club tomorrow. more ›

Officials have announced that a female pedestrian who had was struck by a vehicle near the National Zoo this afternoon has died. more ›

A local man who was found dead on the tracks near the Rockville Metro station over the weekend has been identified, but officials are still not sure how or why he was there. more ›

Stephen DeDakis, the 22-year-old D.C. man who had gone missing over the weekend, was found dead inside the 2001 Volkswagen Passat he was last seen in. more ›

Nadine Poole Winter, a charter member of the D.C. Council who represented Ward 6 from 1975 through 1991, died last Friday. She was 87. more ›

After two children and a young man died this summer from a fatal infection caused by a microscopic parasite, federal authorities are asking for samples of Virginia waterways to try and develop a test for detecting deadly microscopic amoeba. more ›

Remember on Tuesday, when we learned that nine-year-old Virginia boy died after a "brain-eating amoeba" entered his body? Well, now we get word of two other deaths around the country thanks to said organism, including a Louisiana man who contracted the parasite through his drinking water. more ›

Details about the death of 91-year-old socialite Viola Drath are arriving fast and furious: this afternoon, the documents charging Drath's husband Albrecht Muth with murder were released. They include the results of Drath's autopsy, as well as the revelation that a neighbor "heard a faint cry followed by a 'sinister' laugh" come from the couple's Georgetown residence. more ›

How's this for terrifying: a nine-year-old Virginia boy has died after what health officials are calling a "brain-eating amoeba" entered his body. more ›

There was a serious traffic backup at the intersection of New York and Florida Avenues in the District this morning -- though this was hardly normal rush hour gridlock. more ›

Sad, if not entirely unexpected news: the first D.C. fatality due to the recent heat wave has been confirmed. more ›

D.C. police are classifying the death of a woman who fell from the rooftop of the W Hotel last night as a suicide. more ›

Could the atherosclerotic-related death of Ralph Polanec, the general manager of the Hamilton Crowne Plaza hotel, inside the Balance Gym at 1111 14th Street NW have been avoided? more ›

So often, we think of bicycle accidents in terms of cars and bikes colliding -- but it's important to remember that pedestrians and cyclists can also clash, with tragic results. For example: WUSA9 reports that a cyclist died this morning after hitting a pedestrian around 7:45 a.m. today. more ›

A woman was killed at a construction site underneath the Thomas & Dorothy Leavey Center at Georgetown University this morning, after being pinned against an overhang while operating a forklift. CPR was attempted on the woman after she was freed by co-workers, but the 36-year-old died after being transported to George Washington Hospital. Police are currently investigating the incident, which took place around 8 a.m. The Leavey Center is the student center of the university, and also holds a 146-room hotel and conference center. more ›