Young journalist Tamia Robinson interviewed youth and adults about their mental health, and what resources are available to people in need.

This fact was just one of many startling revelations from a Thursday Council hearing and report on the state of suicide prevention from the D.C. Department of Corrections.

The latest suicide comes one month after the D.C. jail director created a task forced to “review mental health assessments and screenings.”

The report cited “unemployment, relationship problems and lack of access to mental health resources” as possible reasons for the rise.

Two separate suicide attempts on Metro were prevented over the weekend by watchful train conductors.

The Virginia Senate is set to vote today on a bill that would make it easier for grieving families to access the Facebook page and other online accounts of deceased minors.

Metro trains on the Green and Yellow lines are experiencing severe delays this morning after a man was struck and killed by a northbound Yellow Line train at Gallery Place about 8 a.m.

Two students at the University of Maryland were killed and a third is in serious condition in an area hospital after an shooting last night that police are calling a murder-suicide.

A woman who placed herself in front of an oncoming train at the Ballston station on Metro’s Orange Line is the first suicide case the transit agency has experienced in 2013.

A man intentionally jumped in front of a Green Line train at Fort Totten earlier today, but was found alive and taken to the hospital.