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If you’re expecting for Roseanne Barr to take responsibility for the demise of her self-titled show, keep waiting.

In a historic vote, every member of a D.C. Council committee voted Tuesday to recommend the expulsion of Council Member Jack Evans, who repeatedly has been accused of ethics violations.

The chairman of the Washington, D.C., Council has urged a member saddled with allegations of wrongdoing to resign before a formal vote to expel him from office.

The majority of D.C. Council members say they will vote to remove Jack Evans from office. If the final vote goes the same way, it will be the first time that the D.C. Council has voted to remove one if its own. Mark Segraves reports.

Police in Prince George’s County, Maryland, are investigating after a dead fetus was found in the women’s bathroom of a restaurant.

Maryland’s House speaker has removed a white lawmaker from a leadership position for using a racial slur for black people.

A university in Virginia will name a residence hall after a freed slave who once was owned by founding father James Madison.

Virginia’s embattled governor says he wants to spend the remaining three years of his term pursuing racial “equity.”

One of the busiest days on the Virginia legislature’s calendar began under a cloud of suspense Tuesday as Gov. Ralph Northam weighed whether he can continue in the job amid the fallout over a racist photo on his 1984 medical school yearbook page.

Prosecutors requested the man credited with spurring the 1980s crack epidemic in Washington, D.C., get a reduced sentence.

Teachers at the only unionized charter school in Washington, D.C., say the charter network is closing the school as retaliation against their unionization efforts.

The D.C. museum dedicated to news and the First Amendment will relocate after Johns Hopkins University buys its building near the Capitol.

Virginia’s first lady apologized Wednesday after a state employee reportedly told lawmakers and the governor’s office that Pam Northam handed out cotton to the woman’s daughter and another black child during a recent tour of the governor’s mansion, NBC News reported. “I regret that I have upset anyone,” Northam said. “I am still committed to chronicling the important history of...

The District stopped suspending driver licenses for failure to appear in court or pay some traffic fines, leading the city DMV to restore more than 65,000 licenses.

A well-known Northern Virginia businessman pleaded guilty Wednesday to multiple fraud schemes that cheated investors out of roughly $20 million.

Three brothers were sentenced Thursday in connection with the death of Prince George’s County police Detective Jacai Colson. Prince George’s County Bureau Chief Tracee Wilkins reports on the long and emotional hearing.

A man convicted in the attack on a Maryland police station in which an undercover narcotics detective was mistakenly shot and killed was sentenced to 195 years, but the slain detective’s family is lashing out, saying the officer who shot the detective should be in prison as well.

One of the most powerful elected officials in Washington, D.C., used government email for personal business, the Washington Post reports, raising questions whether he violated ethics or broke the law.

Questions are mounting over whether D.C.’s longest-serving elected official violated ethics rules or even broke the law. News4’s Mark Segraves talked to other lawmakers about the growing troubles for D.C. Councilman Jack Evans.