Prospects that the District will become the first jurisdiction in the nation to require gun owners to purchase liability insurance were dampened Thursday when Mayor Vincent C. Gray...

Virginia Attorney General Kenneth T. Cuccinelli II will formally accept the Republican nomination for governor Saturday, but he'll stand alone at the top of the GOP with neither the...

With a slew of candidates who many in Virginia still don't know much about, the wide open contest for the Republican nomination to be the state's next lieutenant governor may actually...

A Silver Spring man is charged with attempted murder after police said he shot another man while high on PCP and then climbed naked onto a fire truck parked in a busy Calverton...

ANNAPOLIS | Gun control advocates in Maryland were bracing for an inevitable challenge to a law giving the state some of the strictest weapons prohibitions in the nation, even as they...

A national movement to grant more teens the right to vote scored its first victory this week with the passage of legislation in Takoma Park, to lower the voting age in municipal...

Second Amendment supporters beware: Cathy Lanier is talking tough — Annie Oakley tough. The chief cop for the nation's capital, she has promised to meet at the pass (well,...

Metro officials on Wednesday said they had ruled out track conditions as a potential reason for a fire under a train at the Silver Spring station and were turning their focus to the...

BALTIMORE — Kentucky Derby winner Orb has drawn the rail in Saturday's Preakness and has been installed an overwhelming even-money favorite in the nine-horse race. Orb will seek...

Crews have finished wrapping the Washington Monument in scaffolding, meaning exterior repairs to the earthquake-damaged landmark can begin. A video released Wednesday by the National...