Matt Delaney

The D.C. Office of the Inspector General said the Metropolitan Police Department suffered serious issues in how it collected and verified crime data, the latest development in a saga that started with the White House accusing police of fudging the numbers to make the city appear safer than it is.

The District Department of Transportation is on the verge of changing the language in its traffic camera policies after a local lawyer beat a speeding camera ticket by discovering that camera readings may not be as precise as the citations claim.

Montgomery County authorities have removed their last health advisory for the Potomac River more than six months after a sewage spill flooded the waterway with disease-carrying bacteria.

Federal immigration authorities want to take custody of an illegal immigrant who was armed with two knives and accused of trying to grab a Fairfax County police officer’s firearm following a domestic incident in Annandale.

Goldfish, long plagued by the notion that they are fine living in a glass bowl until they’re discarded in a toilet drain, can now boast about being animal rights trailblazers.

The mayor of Madison, Wisconsin, called for protesters to disband from an “autonomous zone” established at the site where a knife-wielding homeless man was shot and killed by police last month.

Lawmakers in Cambridge, Massachusetts, voted to reinstall ShotSpotter after police said the gunshot detection technology could have saved a shooting victim last month.

Maryland crept closer to eliminating the state’s lone Republican congressional representative after the Democratic-controlled Legislature voted to put the redistricting question on the ballot in this fall’s general election.

The Federal Aviation Administration opened an air safety probe on Tuesday after a plane took off from Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport while President Trump’s helicopter was approaching the hub, seemingly defying safety procedures established from last year’s deadly midair crash by the airport.

Federal prosecutors in California accused a man of possessing an illegal firearm after he posed as a security guard at one of President Trump’s golf courses in Los Angeles, days before the commander in chief was scheduled to visit the property.