Say you're halfway through a turkey sub when you have a sudden urge to Wikipedia the word "crush," because your nephew was bashfully asking what it meant, which reminded you of when you, too, were 13 and tripped on a chair on your way to the blackboard ...
Even before fighting flared, Anita Kakule and her smallest son lived on a tattered straw mat in a corner of a schoolroom. When classes met, she relocated their mat and three salvaged pots to the shade of a nearby eucalyptus tree. "It's because of ...
ZAVENTEM, Belgium -- In this Brussels suburb, where neat houses on twisting lanes stand a few streets away from NATO headquarters and the glassy towers of multinationals, Jean-Ren¿ Delval is packing up his home of 32 years and moving with his wife to ...
Dicks was among scores of Washington area residents to participate yesterday in the D.C. police department's gun amnesty program. Held at three churches -- officers had hoped the non-threatening setting would lure people who might be intimidated by ...
In a journey that took them from the battered field near their oft-troubled Northeast Washington housing project to the national football championships in the Pop Warner Super Bowl in Orlando, the 31 members of the Beacon House Falcons 90-pound Peewee ...
As dozens of teenagers swayed and shimmied to the throb of a go-go band on a District dance floor yesterday, a handful crammed onto benches nearby, silent and fidgeting as they waited to be tested for HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. Admission to hear ...
In the annals of beauty, the pompadour, the beehive and the Afro all had their day. Now comes the lifesaving haircut. From the padded swivel chairs in his Southeast Washington barbershop, Clarence "Chile" Brace dispatched two freshly trimmed customers ...
James H. Pickett Jr., 50, a 30-year U.S. Postal Service employee, is a one-man army who manufactured and sold an array of memorabilia to jolt the memory of his co-workers on yesterday's anniversary of the anthrax mailings that led to the shuttering of ...
Today, volunteers from the Washington Conservation Guild will meet where the artifacts are being sheltered, in a glass display case and filing cabinets in the photo archives in Room 307 at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library. It is the group's ...
Pugh's mother said he had never been involved in an altercation with a student at the school. "He didn't see who shot him, but there were several students gathered there on the campus who could have seen who shot him," Blackwell said. The gunman ...
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