Inauguration Day has rare intersection with MLK
ATLANTA (AP) - President Barack Obama plans to use a Bible that belonged to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. as he takes his oath of office on the holiday honoring the slain icon...
Delta Sigma Theta Sorority celebrates centennial
WASHINGTON (AP) - The nation's capital is swarming with women wearing crimson and cream, as one of the country's largest African-American sororities gathers to celebrate 100 years of sisterhood...
About 40,000 expected at Obama inaugural balls
WASHINGTON (AP) - Inaugural revelers hoping to get close to President Barack Obama at a ball are going to have a lot of competition, with around 40,000 expected to pack the pair of parties...
Obama's 2nd inauguration to draw smaller crowds
WASHINGTON (AP) - Visitors coming to the nation's capital for President Barack Obama's second inauguration can't stay in the one place President Ronald Reagan's family once called an eight-star hotel...
Marion Barry: DC police need to 'get in the gym, go on a diet'
Washington DC mayor and current Democratic council member for Ward 8 is not the most diplomatic when it comes to expressing his feelings.
Man in apparent Mitt Romney mask robs Virginia bank
VIDEO - A man wearing an apparent a Mitt Romney mask robbed a Virginia bank yesterday -- the same bank hit by a robber in a Hillary mask two years ago...
Virginia college student expelled for election night racial outburst
WASHINGTON - One student has been expelled and three others are being punished for their roles in a racially charged uproar on a Virginia college campus the night of President Barack Obama's re-election, the school said Thursday...
Obama's 2nd inaugural seems almost an afterthought
WASHINGTON (AP) - Four years ago, Barack Obama's swearing-in drew a record crowd to the National Mall. There were 1.8 million people eager to witness history: the country's first black president taking the oath of office...
Frederick Douglass statue settles in new home
theGRIO REPORT - A statue of Frederick Douglass, orator, writer, abolitionist, and advocate for equality of all people, will move from the atrium of a government office building to Capitol Hill's Emancipation Hall...
DC sniper Lee Boyd Malvo says he was sexually abused by accomplice
WASHINGTON (AP) - Convicted D.C. sniper Lee Boyd Malvo said in a television interview that aired Thursday that he was sexually abused by John Allen Muhammad, his adult accomplice in shootings that terrorized the Washington area 10 years ago...
