According to the Hatchet, D.C. police officers are currently investigating the threat of a weapon on campus around the 900 block of 23rd Street NW. more ›

Although you can expect to experience a heightened security presence inside Metrorail stations this weekend, the system is not a target of the "specific, credible" threat which federal officials briefed local leaders about last night. more ›

UPDATE: (10:50 p.m.): Mayor Gray held a press conference around 10:30 p.m. this evening, stating that he had been briefed on "credible but unconfirmed threats" by Department of Homeland Security head Janet Napolitano. more ›

The woman who created a chaotic scene at the Rockville Metrorail station this morning was reportedly aiming to set off an explosion at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Rockville. more ›

Jackie Jeter, the president of Amalgamated Transit Union Local 689 -- the labor union representing Metro employees -- once got in some hot water for allegedly responding to a critical email about Metro workers by telling the emailer that "apparently you believe in slavery." Well, if you thought that was bad, wait until you hear what one of Jeter's union members reportedly said during a recent meeting. more ›

The man accused of killing Chandra Levy in Rock Creek Park in 2001 has pleaded not guilty to additional charges of threatening to kill a witness, the Associated Press is reporting. Prosecutors filed the additional charges against Ingmar Guandique earlier this month, citing evidence that Guandique wrote a threatening note to the witness and had someone deliver it. The AP updates that Guandique's lawyer entered a not-guilty plea for him to the new charges during an arraignment today in D.C. Superior Court. Guandique is already serving a 10-year sentence for separate assaults in Rock Creek Park, and is facing first degree murder charges in the death of Levy. more ›

Meet Walter Carl Abbott, Jr. He's the kind of Lou Dobbs-loving, manly-man Maryland construction worker who blames everything that's wrong in this country on illegal immigrants. In fact, he feels so strongly about illegal immigration that last year, he decided to send an email to Gov. Martin O'Malley about it. Unfortunately for Abbott, the email included this phrase: "If I ever get close enough to you I will [w]rap my hands around your throat and strangle the life from you." Whoops! more ›

As if travel and transit weren't already bad enough this Thanksgiving weekend, federal authorities are warning of a potential terrorist plot on the New York City subway system during this holiday season. And while the FBI may be calling the threat "plausible but unsubstantiated," WTOP is reporting that D.C.'s Metro system is responding by placing itself on alert as well. A Metro spokesperson told WTOP that they have "no reason to believe that the D.C. system is a target," but Metro Transit Police officers are now being put on a state of "increased vigilance and visibility," meaning you may notice more transit police in Metro stations and at bus stops. more ›