It's a tough sell: nearly $1 billion a year in new taxes and fees for transportation while fuel prices are soaring past the means of many family budgets.

Dan Hesse, chief executive officer at Sprint Nextel Corp. for less than five months, faced tough questions Tuesday about the company's continued trouble keeping wireless subscribers.

The American Red Cross says it might relocate some employees from its downtown Washington headquarters to a satellite office in northern Virginia to generate revenue.

Gov. Tim Kaine proposed a series of tax increases Monday to help pay for the state's expanding highway maintenance deficit and pump new money into road and rail projects, but quickly ran into opposition from House Republican leaders and only tepid support from Senate Democrats.

The heavy, steady rain that pounded the region for more than 24 hours sent rivers over their beds, destroyed homes and caused one Montgomery County woman, caught in the grip of Beltway traffic, to deliver her third child in the back of a car.

A wet, gusty storm that lashed the mid-Atlantic states Monday forced evacuations, flooded roads, fanned the flames of a deadly New Jersey fire and wrecked a research vessel off the Delaware coast, killing a crew member.

Tens of thousands of homes and businesses in the Mid-Atlantic region are without power because of the storm.

How’d you like to have an extra lane during your drive to and from work every day? 

The patrons at Champps, an upscale restaurant and bar chain, were eating ribs and drinking beer on a recent Saturday when customer Bruce Jackson stood up and made an announcement: He was armed, and so were dozens of other patrons.

Thomas, Stephen and Angela Redmond came into this world in a rush, arriving quickly and safely within two minutes of one another.