While the District's revamped gun regulations work their way through the courts (Dick Heller recently sued the city again over its registration process and ban on semi-automatic guns), we'll soon have our very own licensed gun seller from which to purchase that sweet limited edition commemorative Smith & Wesson handgun. Writes WTOP's Mark Segraves: D.C. Police Chief, Cathy Lanier was on WTOP's Ask the Chief program and said she's been told federal authorities will issue......

WTOP's Mark Segraves got a hold of a partial list of the folks who've been receiving tickets to use the city's free luxury box in the Verizon Center -- the one that the D.C. Council is so miffed they're being boxed out of -- and there's some fun tidbits he discovered.Most of those invited to D.C.'s Luxury Suite at the Verizon Center by Fenty either contributed the maximum $2,000 to Fenty's campaign or worked on......

Up until last year, the D.C. Council's weekly breakfast meetings were closed to the press and the public. The meetings, which then council Chair Linda Cropp claimed were merely social in nature, were thought of by local reporters as the place where city politicos hammered out sensitive deals -- and did so away from the prying eyes of the District's residents. Even though that has now changed, we've never really gotten much of a sense......

If there are two things most people know about WTOP Political Analyst Mark Plotkin, it's that one, he's not very tech-savvy, and two, he's passionate aboout District voting rights. So passionate, it seems, that he even got himself kicked out of the White House yesterday. According to fellow WTOP reporter Mark Segraves' account of the incident, Plotkin, along with the rest of the D.C. press corps and various local elected officials, attended an event at......

It's no wonder Congress doesn't take us seriously. Controversy has erupted in the District over -- of all things -- statues. As we have reported in the past, the District has been looking to place two statues in the U.S. Capitol's National Statuary Hall, a privilege granted to states with which they can recognize two of their most prominent residents. City officials went as far as to allow residents to choose the two Washingtonians that......

We've always somewhat hearted WTOP Investigative Reporter Mark Segraves. He's the guy who recently broke the story that District resources are used to cover the costs of the many motorcades that pass through the city -- $1.5 million last year alone, $10 million since 2000, and 40 D.C. police officers and 40 cruisers each time. Today he's back with more interesting investigative pieces. Voting and Identity Theft in the District: According to a WTOP investigation,......

Strange things can be found in the area's rivers, from frankenfish upstream and downstream, to things like USA Today distribution boxes and a Civil War-era sword (as recovered during the recent Capital River Relief clean-up.) Now add blue barrels. WTOP reports that near Great Falls and other places, more than 50 sealed blue barrels have washed ashore. And they've been found in other areas of the Potomac and the Anacostia. Environmentalists say while both rivers......