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Guns no longer have to stay inside the businesses or homes of D.C. residents who own them, according to a landmark federal court ruling issued last week. (Associated Press)

D.C. plans to seek stay of order striking down ban on handguns in public

By Andrea Noble - The Washington Times

The District of Columbia has decriminalized possession of small amounts of marijuana. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

D.C. police quietly prepping for change in law on marijuana

By Andrea Noble - The Washington Times

D.C. sees violent weekend despite crime-reduction initiative

By Andrea Noble - The Washington Times

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D.C. police union launches website to map crime

By Andrea Noble - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Oct. 3, 2013 file photo, Washington Police Chief Cathy Lanier speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. Police officials in the nation’s capital have been facing recent questions about headline-making arrests _ not of hardened street criminals but of their own officers. In a single month, one District of Columbia police officer was accused of taking semi-nude pictures of a 15-year-old runaway and another was charged with running a prostitution operation involving teenage girls. A third was indicted on an attempted murder charge, accused of striking his wife in the head with a light fixture. (AP Photo/Molly Riley, File)

Chief Lanier’s signature crime-fighting initiative to continue; union plans grievance

By Andrea Noble - The Washington Times

Businessman Mark Witaschek submits to a mugshot for the D.C. Gun Offenders Registry at Metropolitan Police Department. March 28, 2013.

MILLER: Mark Witaschek surrenders to D.C. police ‘Gun Offenders Registry’

By Emily Miller - The Washington Times

ACLU: D.C. police provide bad information, fail complaint protocol

By Andrea Noble - The Washington Times

**FILE** An officer removes police tape from a crime scene. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

Man fatally shot in Northeast D.C.

By Matthew Cella - The Washington Times

D.C. Metropolitan Police Chief Cathy L. Lanier is not bound by recommendations of an officer complaints board. (Associated Press)

Legal opinion hits authority of civilian-led D.C. police complaints board

By Andrea Noble - The Washington Times

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Gun owners given sufficient renewal window

By our readers

The Metropolitan Police Department on Thursday began its gun re-registration process with owners getting fingerprinted and submitting to background checks. (andrew harnik/the Washington Times)

D.C. police begin gun re-registration process

By Andrea Noble - The Washington Times

The Metropolitan Police Department unveiled 100 'next generation' cameras in November, announcing it would issue warning tickets for 30 days and begin issuing actual tickets on Dec. 30. But the date for official enforcement has been delayed until Feb. 1.

New D.C. traffic cameras to go live Feb. 1

By Andrea Noble - The Washington Times

The Firearms Registration Section at D.C.'s Metropolitan Police Department. (Photo by Emily Miller)

MILLER: Gun re-registration law in D.C. goes into effect in 2014, may lead to arrest, confiscation

By Emily Miller - The Washington Times

A pedestrian right of way camera sits at the intersection of 18th Street and Wyoming Avenue, NW, Washington, D.C., Monday, December 30, 2013. The Metropolitan Police Department is delaying the start to issuing tickets for 130 new traffic enforcement cameras in the District. Drivers will begin getting fines for speeding and violations at stop signs, crosswalks and intersections beginning in an unannounced time in the future. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

New D.C. traffic cameras to begin issuing tickets Feb. 1

By Andrea Noble - The Washington Times

A speed camera sits in the center median along Bladensburg Road in Northeast, Washington, D.C., Sunday, November 24, 2013. The Washington Metropolitan Police Department has added 100 new traffic cameras targeting motorists at stop signs, crosswalks and intersections. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

Planned rollout of new D.C. traffic cameras hits a snag

By Andrea Noble - The Washington Times

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D.C. police officer linked to prostitution ring

By Andrea Noble - The Washington Times

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D.C. police propose requirements to re-register guns

By Meredith Somers - The Washington Times

**FILE** Eleanor Holmes Norton, the District's non-voting member of Congress (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

SHAPIRO: Norton’s ‘safest city’ comment about D.C. not supported by facts

By Jeffrey Scott Shapiro

Police to investigate two fires aboard D.C. ambulances

By Andrea Noble and Matthew Cella - The Washington Times

"I've seen weekends when we've had as many as 40 officers held out of service on hospital details guarding prisoners," Chief Cathy L. Lanier said Monday at a D.C. Council hearing. (The Washington Times)

Court deals blow to D.C. police’s All Hands on Deck initiative

By Andrea Noble - The Washington Times