“He’s a little Houdini,” said the dog’s owner.

“I don’t mean to be pessimistic at all, but we’re looking for a cat who could literally be sitting in a tree right next to us,” says Craig Saffoe, the zoo’s curator of great cats.

The National Zoo says it has information from the public that she is probably in the Woodley or Cleveland Park neighborhoods.

A horse escaped from the Laural Race Track this afternoon, galloping 1.6 miles down Route 1 until being caught.

Yonathan Melaku, the former Marine reservist who taken into custody in connection to shootings at five military sites around Virginia last fall, reportedly attempted to escape from his cell last week.

D.C. officials just cannot keep their grip on Brandon Sparrow — the 18-year-old ward of the District has now escaped from city custody for the third time.

More details are coming to light in the violent escape of a teenager from New Beginnings Youth Correctional Facility in Laurel on Sunday night — and, as expected, the incident is causing many to question the overall efficacy of the facility and the capability of the District’s Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services to manage it.

D.C. and Maryland police are searching for a youth that escaped from the New Beginnings Youth Correctional Facility in Laurel late last night. Around midnight, WUSA9 reports, a teenager assaulted a corrections officer, stole his security card and car keys, then used a ladder to scale a fence and drove off in the officer’s vehicle. (A second teenager that was part of the escape plot was caught.)