D.C. Police

Metropolitan Police Officer Jeffrey Smith died on Jan. 15, 2021.

Confusion and finger-pointing continue between local and federal law enforcement agencies after Wednesday’s siege of the Capitol by a pro-Trump mob.

Police in D.C. and Montgomery County say they have arrested the Potomac River Rapist who killed a D.C. intern and raped nine women over the course of seven years in the 1990s.

A man with a machete chased two men into an apartment building lobby in the NoMa area last week in what police are investigating as a possible anti-gay attack.

An apparently hungry thief broke into a Subway shop in D.C. overnight, jumped over the counter and made himself a sandwich.

At least one person was detained outside Trump International Hotel in downtown Washington, D.C., Saturday night amid continuing clashes between far-right demonstrators and counter protesters.

At least one person was detained outside Trump International Hotel in downtown Washington, D.C., Saturday night amid continuing clashes between far-right demonstrators and counter protesters.

A judge ordered the Metropolitan Police Department to start following a law that went into effect three years ago requiring officers track the race of every person they stop in an effort to determine if police are racially profiling African-Americans.

A man pulled out a BB gun during an altercation during Saturday’s Capital Pride Parade, causing widespread panic and mistaken reports of an active shooter, police say. Several people were hurt in the chaos as hundreds fled.

The redacted Mueller Report released Thursday mentions a murder mystery in Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C.’s attorney general says a 10-year-old boy who was handcuffed after an armed robbery is “totally innocent” and he will not be charged.

President Donald Trump sought to assure opponents of abortion rights on Friday that he stands with them and would veto any legislation from a Democratic-controlled House that “weakens the protection of human life.”

A security guard shot a man who broke through two doors and entered the lobby of WTTG, the local Fox station in Washington, D.C., Monday afternoon.

Robert Frazier left home Sunday night for 15 minutes. When he came back, he found that his family’s dog had attacked his wife.

D.C. Council member Vincent Gray, a former mayor of the city, says he was injured when a bouncer at a nightclub pushed him on Saturday, causing him to fall.

The 23-year-old man arrested and charged Thursday in the “unprovoked” fatal stabbing of a woman who was jogging through D.C.’s Logan Circle neighborhood was known to use the synthetic drug K2, according to court documents.

A 35-year-old woman jogging in the Logan Circle neighborhood of Northwest D.C. was killed in a brutal stabbing Tuesday evening, and police are still searching for the man who attacked her.

The man who jumped a fence at the White House complex Monday afternoon told police he was on a mission from God and wanted to attack President Donald Trump, according to charging documents.

The National Mall and the streets of downtown D.C. are a sea of red as the Washington Capitals and their fans celebrate the team’s historic Stanley Cup victory.

A Democratic congressional candidate in New Mexico used an expletive in a television ad Friday to condemn the National Rifle Association and inaction by U.S. lawmakers on gun control, beginning a 15-second spot with the words “F— the NRA.” In the ad, Albuquerque City Council member and congressional candidate Pat Davis goes on to the say that NRA policies have...