The public psychiatric hospital has settled a lawsuit filed by patients over the hospital’s October 2019 water crisis and inadequate COVID-19 safety procedures.

Civil rights groups are suing the city over its handling of the water crisis.

GW Hospital is still expected to partner with the city on a brand new full-service hospital in Ward 8.

The D.C. Council will cast its final vote Tuesday on a controversial bill to finalize a deal with George Washington University Hospital to build a new hospital east of the Anacostia river.

John Hinckley, the man who shot President Reagan outside the Washington Hilton Hotel in 1981, has been granted the right to obtain a D.C. driver’s license in order to drive to visit his mother in Williamsburg. U.S. District Court Judge Paul Friedman issued the ruling Tuesday that gives Hinckley more freedom and permission to spend more time away from St. Elizabeths Hospital, the Southeast D.C. mental hospital where he lives. Fingers crossed that Hinckley’s upcoming…