367 days ago - This is a love story. She was 19 years old, petite but not dainty. He was slightly older, tall and confident, and already an accomplished dancer.
395 days ago - Korean-Americans own hundreds of small businesses throughout the region. It’s a close-knit community dominated by family, job, school and church. But that’s beginning to change, as political awareness is opening new doors.
448 days ago - A private school that receives millions of public dollars to educate some of the District of Columbia’s special education students remains open despite years of complaints about unqualified staff, dirty facilities and lax academic standards.
452 days ago - Around 7 a.m. on June 3, 2006, District of Columbia Jail Corporal Herbert Douglas gathered 15 prisoners for their Saturday morning work detail. Douglas had been with the Department of Corrections for 15 years, first at the Lorton lockup and then at the Central Detention Facility in the Hill East neighborhood.
452 days ago - The escape of two dangerous inmates from the District of Columbia Jail last June raised disturbing questions about incompetence and corruption in an agency assigned to protect the public from criminals. One year later, those questions remain unanswered.
472 days ago - On the night Clem Florio was diagnosed with prostate cancer, he dined with a couple of buddies at Sabatino’s Restaurant in Little Italy and narrowed all discussion of the news to two syllables.
485 days ago - Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon responded to a special report on unsolved murders published Tuesday in The Examiner by saying improved relations between the police and community will help solve cases.
486 days ago - Baltimore Deputy Police Commissioner Frederick Bealefeld said his homicide detectives are “Type A guys” — highly competitive workaholics who sometimes take on three times the caseload of the nation’s average homicide investigator.
486 days ago - After a deadly weekend that resulted in the slayings of six more Baltimore City residents, the Dixon administration unveiled a new “public safety” plan aimed at stopping the violence.