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Top Democrats call on Oregon governor to resign 02/13/2015 12:18am • SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon's top Democrats urged Gov. John Kitzhaber to resign Thursday, saying he cannot lead the state effectively amid a growing ethics scandal involving his fiancee, a green-energy consultant suspected of using their relationship to land contracts for her business. Senate Presid Accusations fly during closing arguments in whistleblower trial 02/10/2015 07:22pm • WASHINGTON -- Accusations flew in court during closing arguments in a whistleblower lawsuit against the D.C. government and Metropolitan Police Chief Cathy Lanier, and the case is now before a jury. Capt. Hilton Burton says he was demoted two full ranks and removed as commander of the Special Ope The best college hoops team in the DMV: The Maryland Women 02/10/2015 02:31am • WASHINGTON -- Quick: Which D.C. area college basketball team is the best? Sure, Georgetown has been ranked much of the year. So have the Maryland men, who got off to a flying start in their first Big 10 season before a couple of tough road losses. GW has a shot to make it back to the Tournament. Dalai Lama comes to Washington; D.C. native premieres documentaries 02/04/2015 02:58am • WASHINGTON -- The road to peace may be paved by the Dalai Lama. But who knew the road to the Dalai Lama included John Wayne, Johnny Cash and Harrison Ford? The three cultural icons influenced D.C. native Khashyar Darvich in most unusual ways en route to creating a powerful pair of documentari D.C.-area airports not immune to 'air rage' incidents 02/03/2015 07:28am • WASHINGTON -- Failing to follow the directions of flight attendants can have dangerous consequences when unruly behavior endangers the operation of planes at 30,000 feet. But disruptive flyers frequently face little to only minor penalties. A review of five years of airline incidents by WUSA9 a Airlines, Amtrak and Greyhound: A host of delays and cancellations 01/26/2015 09:13pm • WASHINGTON -- Several transit companies have announced delays and cancellations for the early part of this week as a snowstorm hits the Northeast. Delta Airlines, US Airways, American Airlines and United Airlines have announced that flights between Monday and Wednesday to, from and through airpor Airline shutdowns to have ripple effect around nation 01/26/2015 08:30am • WASHINGTON -- A major snowstorm is barreling toward the East Coast and residents in New England are preparing for a record-setting blizzard. The Washington, D.C., area won’t be hit as hard, but the storm is still causing huge headaches for travelers. As of 8 a.m. Monday, the flight-tracking The best local getaways for beating the winter blues 01/21/2015 02:35am • WASHINGTON -- By now you've seen the signs:  frigid air, salty sidewalks, cracked skin. We're officially smack dab in the middle of winter -- a time of year when the sun seems to hibernate and warm weather is a distant memory. If you’re looking for a way to beat the winter blues but don’t Lucie Arnaz has a ball in National Theatre's 'Pippin' 12/16/2014 01:47pm • WASHINGTON -- Lucie Arnaz was just 19 years old when she first saw "Pippin" on Broadway -- a 1972 production that won director Bob Fosse a Tony, immortalized Roger O. Hirson's story and cemented Stephen Schwartz's music as showtunes standards. "I was a musical-theatre nerd when I was little," s NTSB investigating deadly Montgomery Co. plane crash 12/08/2014 11:01am • WASHINGTON - Federal investigators will try to determine why a small plane catapulted into a Gaithersburg, Maryland, home as it crashed, killing three people in the plane and three in the home Monday. The victims The dead have been identified as 36-year-old Marie Gemmell and her two sons, 3-yea Will healthy tailgating fly with sports fans? 12/05/2014 02:16am • WASHINGTON -- Most sports fans don't associate tailgating with healthy eating. In fact, most probably don't want to. After all, that's not the point of tailgating -- the point is to have delicious food (and drinks) with your friends that you can eat out of the back of your car or truck while you Tailgating gets très chic with more sophisticated spreads 12/04/2014 04:28pm • WASHINGTON -- The energy was high, the music was loud and soccer balls kicked by painted-face fans flew through the air. Next to me, smoke rose off a charcoal grill, much like all the other grills in the parking lot at RFK before D.C. United's home playoff match. But the typical burgers and oth NFL player trades playbook for grade books 11/25/2014 01:03pm • WASHINGTON -- "I wish you'd have come yesterday." The end of the day on a Friday is a tough time to judge any operation. It's as true in any corporate office as it is in a math class at Ballou High School, one of the city's most trying learning environments. That's where a 26-year-old from Balt D.C.-area airports make nation's most, least frustrating airports list 11/24/2014 09:22am • WASHINGTON -- Two local airports are on a list naming the most and least frustrating airports in the U.S. and Canada. Washington Dulles International Airport is the third worst airport after New York LaGuardia and Newark Liberty International, according to Bloomberg's Airport Frustration Index Hawk rescued downtown during morning rush 11/21/2014 01:25pm • WASHINGTON - Rush-hour commuters saw a hawk rescue up close Friday morning. Washington Human Society animal control officers responded about 8:45 a.m. for a report of a hawk inside an underground parking garage at 1333 H Street NW. The agency, which serves as the District's animal care and control