Washington DC
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MPD: 1 in 4 cruisers are past recommended retirement age
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Another D.C. emergency agency is facing questions over the reliability of its vehicles. This time, it's Metropolitan Police, who admit that nearly 1 in 4 of their vehicles are past their recommended retirement age.
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Metro announces station name changes
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The Metro Board has approved several name changes to more than half a dozen stations. So is Navy Yard still Navy Yard?
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CDC report: Men responsible for 81% of drunk driving episodes
That's just one of the many questions raised by the CDC's report about drunk driving in America. The number of drunk-driving episodes has gone down over the last five years, but 11,000 people still died as a result of drunk driving last year.
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D.C. area fire, police chiefs have higher salaries than Md., Va. governors
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The salaries of many of the police and fire chiefs in the Washington region outpace the earnings of their states' governors. D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier leads the list at $253,000.
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'He pulled out a firearm, started shooting at the coach'
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Ralph Thomas and Oma Crawford had been talking, even laughing, but also arguing about a woman, before Crawford pulled a gun from his duffel bag and fired an estimated nine shots, killing Thomas, coach and GM of the DC Falcons.
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