Want to know what’s up for your weekend? Sign up for The Weekend Scene, our newsletter about events, experiences and adventures for you and for your family around the DMV. Just before Sophia left for her vacay in Paris (Bonjour!) and Ireland (Slinte!), she made Doug pinky-promise that this weekends weather in D.C. would be better than last. Her OOO ...

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowsers administration has reached a settlement with two women who were found to have been sexually harassed by former deputy mayor John Falcicchio, News4 is first to report. Falcicchio was the deputy mayor for planning and economic development and a longtime top aide to Bowser. He abruptly resigned last year. The agreement includes ...

Only a third of people arrested at the pro-Palestinian encampment at George Washington University on Wednesday identified themselves to D.C. police as students of the university, police say. Of the 33 people arrested as police shut down the encampment before dawn, 11 said they are GW students, the Metropolitan Police Department said in information ...

Miss Teen USA 2023 UmaSofia Srivastava is stepping down from her title two days after Miss USA 2023 Noelia Voigt resigned. Srivastava, 17, announced her resignation in an Instagram post in a nearly identical format to Voigt, writing that she feels her “personal values no longer fully align with the direction of the organization.” “After ...

ATM thieves in Prince Georges County used a car to rip the door off of a store to get to the cash inside. Surveillance video shows the smash-and-grab early Thursday in Landover Hills. The owner of 5 & Twelve Food Mart, at 7001 Annapolis Road, north of Route 50, said it happened at about 2:30 a.m. On video, it appears that the thieves pried off the ...

Its easier to change an Olivia Rodrigo lyric than it is to change a tattoo of it and thats exactly what the singer vowed to do for fan Grace Flemming. Flemming, 20, first heard Rodrigos song Hope Ur OK in 2021, when the three-time Grammy-winning singer released it on her album Sour. She immediately knew she wanted a tattoo of one of the lyrics, address ...

The Humane Rescue Alliance and other D.C. agencies received at least a dozen reports of bear sightings within the past month in a Northeast neighborhood where a bear was caught last year. Elizabeth Knox and her kids stopped what they were doing about 7 a.m. Wednesday when they saw a black bear wander through their front yard in Brookland. Some ...

Four juveniles were arrested in connection with a police chase in a suspected stolen car that went through D.C., Maryland and Virginia on Tuesday night. Home security cameras captured the chase as officers pursued the driver down an alley in Southeast D.C. The pursuit started in Prince Georges County and continued into Southeast D.C., where home ...

The CEO of a company with significant business interests in D.C. arranged and paid for Mayor Muriel Bowsers last-minute trip to the Masters golf tournament, but details were scarce until a Washington City Paper report Wednesday. On Friday April 12, Bowsers public calendar said she would be going to Augusta, Georgia, as part of a sports and economic ...

In his first five months on the job as Washington Commanders general manager, Adam Peters set a frenetic pace. Think about it: Since January, Peters hired an almost entirely new coaching staff from Dan Quinn on down and then attacked free agency with vigor. Washington signed the most new free agents in the NFL, then added nine draft picks and 11 ...

Hardline Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene stunned colleagues Wednesday calling for a vote to oust Speaker Mike Johnson, but lawmakers quickly rejected it. The lopsided vote to “table” or kill Greene’s motion to vacate the speaker’s chair was 359-43. Just 10 Republicans voted with Greene, seven Democrats voted present. Greene pressed ahead with her ...

A Maryland man seen on camera punching and kicking a great-grandfather, who later died, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder. Julias Wrights defense admitted their client struck 86-year-old Johnny Shepherd but tried to argue he died because of the hospice care he then received. Wright stood trial for two days before entering the plea Wednesday morning ...

DC Water issued a boil water advisory for thousands of customers after a water main break in Upper Northwest D.C. The advisory affects about 4,800 customers who had loss of water pressure after a 20-inch main broke in the 5400-5500 blocks of 41st Street NW. Loss of water pressure can allow contaminants to enter the system. The advised neighborhoods ...

French Olympic swimmer Florent Manaudou became the first Olympic torch carrier in France after the Olympic flame arrived in Marseilles Old Port Wednesday on a majestic three-mast ship from Greece for the welcoming ceremony at sunset in the citys Old Port. The ship sailed into Marseille’s old port with the French national anthem, La Marseillaise, ...

Grocery delivery company Instacart is partnering with Uber Eats to offer a new perk to its customers: restaurant delivery. San Francisco-based Instacart said Tuesday that its U.S. shoppers will see a Restaurants tab in the companys app in the coming weeks. Restaurant orders will be delivered by Uber Eats drivers. Instacart said its Instacart Plus ...

Watch live coverage in the video feed above. D.C. police began clearing out the pro-Palestinian protest encampment on the George Washington Universitys campus early Wednesday. The police action began overnight, after school administrators asked for help removing students and others from campus property. People were arrested. The number of arrests was ...

Got some coins lying around? Some may be worth hundreds if not thousands to currency collectors. According to The Spruce Crafts, a site specializing in hobbies and coin collecting, coin collectors are willing to pay up to $25,000 for coins minted with errors such as missing letters, double printing, etc. But what are some of the most valuable coin ...

A 10-year-old Maryland girl is taking the stage at the Metropolitan Opera of New York as baby Jesus in El Nio, which tells the story of the nativity. Fourth grader Gabby Tennor of Hagerstown has always loved acting and performing, so she decided to audition for the show. I dont understand how, but yeah, Im playing Jesus, Gabby said. Her role is to ...

The raised bed of a dump truck slammed into an overhead ramp on westbound Interstate 66 Monday, but remarkably, no one was injured. The aluminum bed of the truck snapped off and fell into the travel lanes after slamming into a steel beam. “Thankfully, nobody was close enough to hit that bed once it fell, but that is a very real situation that can ...

From a YouTube video called We Come to School to signs posted on restaurant bulletin boards saying We Miss You to special software, Stafford County Public Schools is working hard to reduce chronic absenteeism among students. The trend emerged post-pandemic, as more kids than ever before were chronically absent. Thats defined as when students miss more ...

Authorities recovered the body of the sixth person who was missing after the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge more than a month ago, the Key Bridge Response Unified Command announced Tuesday afternoon. Salvage teams located the body of Jos Mynor Lpez, 37, of Baltimore and contacted Maryland State Police, who responded along with Maryland ...

Going for green! While gold has always been the color of victory at the Olympics, some of the success of this year’s Games will be determined by another shade.  The 2024 Olympics in Paris is going green. Organizers will attempt to make it the first carbon-neutral Olympics in modern history by offsetting more emissions than the Games create to limit ...

Customs and Border Protection officers at Dulles are trying to tackle a troubling trend at American airports. Now that marijuana is legal in more states, more smugglers are using checked bags to move drugs around, authorities say. So far this year, customs officers have confiscated hundreds of pounds of marijuana, worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. ...

U.S. Rep. Jennifer Wexton of Virginia stepped into the House to speak about one of her latest pieces of legislation Monday, but this time was different. Wexton used a text-to-voice application to deliver her speech. This comes about a year after she was diagnosed with a degenerative brain condition. “Mr. Speaker, last year I was diagnosed with ...

The Boy Scouts of America is changing its name for the first time in its 114-year history and will become Scouting America. It’s a significant shift as the organization emerges from bankruptcy following a flood of sexual abuse claims and seeks to focus on inclusion. The organization steeped in tradition has made seismic changes after decades of ...