Washington Informer
HIV Testing events 3 p.m. to 7 p.m., June 27-29 Beginning on National HIV Testing Day on June 27 and continuing through June 29, Whitman-Walker Health will provide free rapid HIV testing at one Walgreens store in D.C. daily. The…
Mayor Vincent C. Gray has submitted a bill to the D.C. Council that pays homage to late Go-Go music icon Chuck Brown. The Chuck Brown Park Designation Act of 2012 would designate the western portion of Langdon Park, between 18th…
As former Ward 5 Council member Harry Thomas Jr. prepared over the weekend to settle into a new home and identity at a federal compound in Alabama, the 51-year-old married father of a teenage son, acknowledged in an interview that…
A candlelight vigil was held over the weekend for Grace Deli owner Hae Soon Lim, who was found shot to death Thursday, June 14 inside her corner store at 7 and H streets in Northeast. Police believe the shooting…
Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Donna F. Edwards (MD-4) released the following statement for Father's Day, observed on Sunday, June 17: "Father's Day is an opportunity to come together and pay tribute to fathers who do so much for our…
Mayor Cites Commitment to Fiscal Stability; Will Work with Gandhi toward Fiscal Independence Mayor Vincent C. Gray has reappointed Natwar M. Gandhi, Ph.D., as the District's Chief Financial Officer. Upon confirmation of the D.C. Council, Natwar, who…
Washington, D.C. – The W.K. Kellogg Foundation has awarded a three-year, $325,000 grant to the Summit Health Institute for Research and Education(SHIRE) for a grassroots health-education initiative serving District residents in Wards 5, 7, and 8. SHIRE will recruit and…
Dr. Johnnetta Betsch Cole, director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art in Washington, D.C., welcomed President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of the Republic of Liberia, at a special luncheon held in the president's honor on Tuesday, June 12. The…
In the days since former D.C. Council Chairman Kwame R. Brown was forced to step down after pleading guilty to financial and campaign-related improprieties, council members who've been left behind are eager to put the sordid affair behind…
Metro is set to unwrap an enhanced rush-hour service which kicks off on June 18. Called Rush Plus, the expansion of rush-hour service will ease crowding, improve the commuting experience for Metrorail riders on the Yellow, Orange, Blue and…
"She made an incalculable contribution to the city for people who needed it most before Mitch Snyder and others," is the way longtime D.C. resident Chuck Hicks remembered community activist Bishop Imagene B. Stewart, who died May 30 after…
Amid much fanfare – helicopters circling overhead, Las Vegas style showgirls walking the floor, exotic dancers gyrating above a bar, hordes waiting for hours and a flurry of speeches – Maryland's newest and biggest casino opened on June 6…
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