Washington, D.C., Police Chief Peter Newsham has reached out to a Chevy Chase, Md., woman who was arrested after neighbors complained about music from a party being too loud, telling her that it was wrong for an officer to take her into custody, D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department confirmed Wednesday.
After intense backlash over her comments about health care during the Miss USA pageant, newly crowned nuclear chemist Kara McCullough went on Good Morning America to “clarify” her controversial comments afterward, now insisting that health care “should be a right” for all.
The family of an unarmed black motorcyclist who was gunned down by a Washington, D.C., police officer in September has filed a lawsuit against the Metropolitan Police Department, claiming that the victim was no threat to the officer, Reuters reports.
Washington, D.C., public schools have declined to apply for a chance to perform at President-elect Donald Trump's inaugural parade this year, NBC Washington reports.
Filled with the longtime rallying cry of “No taxation without representation,” supporters of D.C. statehood will finally get a chance to vote on just that.
