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Andrea Noble was a crime and public safety reporter for The Washington Times.

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Then-D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray speaks in Washington, in this March 19, 2014, file photo. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

D.C. bill allowing abortion coverage faces uncertain future

Conservative groups are riled over the D.C. Council's passage of a new anti-discrimination law they say would illegally require organizations to provide insurance coverage of abortions and other reproductive health care procedures regardless of whether they violate the organizations' religious beliefs.

December 21, 2014
FILE PHOTO - Inmates Donnell Howard (foreground) and John Lawrence (background) wait handcuffed outside their cells while corrections officers search for contraband and weapons during a suprise search at the Washington DC Central Detention facility in Washington DC on Thursday, May 30, 2002. The unannounced searches take place at least once a year and are planned so as to not allow inmates time to dispose of the weapons. Inmates are required to have paperwork for items such as authorized medication. ( Gerald Herbert / The Washington Times )

Retired jail officers sue D.C. for right to carry guns for protection

It's been six years since Robert L. Smith retired from his job as a corrections officer at the D.C. Jail, but he says he still receives threats from former inmates he supervised. He keeps a legally registered handgun inside his Southwest D.C. home, but he would like to be able to carry it to protect himself.

December 18, 2014
D.C. Jail (File photo)

D.C. Jail health care contract raises activists’ ire

The ACLU of the Nation's Capital and inmate advocates are encouraging the D.C. Council to reject a contract that would place a for-profit corporation they say has a history of providing poor care in charge of health care at the D.C. Jail.

December 16, 2014
Mayor-Elect Muriel Bowser, speaks to reporters during a news conference at the National Press Club in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2014, a day after being elected the next mayor of the District of Columbia. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Bowser pitches District for 2024 Olympics

Mayor-elect Muriel Bowser was part of the five-person team that made the pitch to the U.S. Olympic Committee Tuesday to select the District as the United States' contender to host the 2024 summer Olympics.

December 16, 2014
FILE - In this Thursday, Dec. 4, 2014, file photo, Rev. Al Sharpton speaks during a news conference at the National Action Network headquarters in New York. Established civil rights organizations, like Sharpton's National Action Network, have called for people to gather in Washington on Saturday, Dec. 13, 2014, for a national march with the families of the two unarmed black men who died at the hands of white police officers. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

Al Sharpton to lead protest Saturday in D.C. against police brutality

Thousands of protesters are expected to descend on the District Saturday as part of a nationally organized demonstration demanding police reforms in the wake of two high-profile incidents in which white police officers faced no charges after killing unarmed black men.

December 12, 2014
In this photo made Friday, Nov. 21, 2014, former U.S. Marine Sgt. Ryan Begin rolls a medical marijuana joint at his home in Belfast, Maine. The Pine Tree State might be high on marijuana in 2016, sparking a charge toward legalization that has previously been the province of western states. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty) ** FILE **

D.C. scrambles to preserve pot legalization law gutted by Congress

The congressional architect of an amendment in a massive federal spending bill that rolled back new D.C. marijuana laws says the bill will block the city's voter-approved referendum legalizing recreational use of the drug, despite assertions from local leaders that the initiative could stand.

December 10, 2014
Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton (Associated Press/File)

Congress axes D.C. marijuana legalization in spending plan

A voter approved ballot initiative legalizing marijuana in the District and a council-passed measure decriminalizing the drug fell victim to federal budget negotiators, who inserted an amendment into a massive $1.1 trillion spending bill that effectively restores criminal penalties for pot possession in the nation's capital.

December 9, 2014
Firefighters stand outside a house in Gaithersbug, Md., Monday, Dec. 8, 2014, where a small plane crashed. A small, private jet has crashed into a house in Maryland's Montgomery County, and a fire official says at least three people on board were killed. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

6 dead after plane crashes into Montgomery County house

Six people were killed when a plane crashed into a Gaithersburg house Monday, including the three people on board and three people inside the home that was engulfed in flames after the crash, according to Montgomery County fire department officials.

December 8, 2014
FILE - In this Monday, Nov. 24, 2014, file photo, University of Virginia students walk to campus past the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity house at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Va. Rolling Stone is casting doubt on the account it published of a young woman who says she was gang-raped at a Phi Kappa Psi fraternity party at the school, saying there now appear to be discrepancies in the student's account. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File) **FILE**

U.Va. fraternity rebuts Rolling Stone gang-rape article

The University of Virginia fraternity at the center of a gang-rape allegation detailed in a Rolling Stone article issued a statement rebutting the story Friday following an apology made by magazine, which acknowledges discrepancies in the report.

December 5, 2014