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LL spoke this evening with Donna Watts-Brighthaupt , the 40-year-old woman whom Marion Barry has been charged with stalking .

Almost every museum in Washington yesterday increased the visibility of its security force and began evaluating whether its current procedures are enough.

The task is a complicated one because, in general, Washington museums are well protected and greatly improved their procedures after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Also, an armed presence and checkpoints seem to go against the museum culture of being safe and open destinations for accessing beauty, education and entertainment.

But in the aftermath of the killing of a security guard at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum on Wednesday, allegedly by white supremacist James Wenneker von Brunn, museum officials were taking another look.

This is a busy weekend, with better weather in the forecast. Here are some ideas about what's going on and how it will affect your travels.

Mayor Adrian M. Fenty announced this morning that the District will begin almost immediately to rehabilitate the 14th Street Bridges over the Potomac, launching a two-year project that will repair decay but slow travel for many of the 200,000 vehicles that cross them each day.

Will streetcars really return to the Capital City? Stored by the manufacturer in the Czech Republic, DC Streetcars wait to be used.

The Washington waterfront community has big plans for spring. From March 28 to April 12, the waterfront will literally spring to life as it hosts the annual National Cherry Blossom Festival to celebrate the blooming of the 3,000 cherry trees the Mayor of Tokyo gave to the city of Washington in 1912.

Blogger David Garber in the soon-to-be developed Anacostia Square. Photograph by Joseph Allen; Louis Ghost Chair by Philippe Starck, courtesy of Design Within Reach David Garber moved to Anacostia after a ...

Next month the District will break ground on a $220-million Comprehensive Forensic Laboratory.

In the short and controversial history of Martin Luther King Day, there has never been one like yesterday.

Herald reporter Matt Garfield and photographer Melissa Cherry are trekking to Washington, D.C. with a group of local alumni and friends of S.C. State University.

Barack Obama held Charles Rollins, 1, yesterday as he visited Calvin Coolidge High School yesterday in Washington D.C. The Obamas of Chicago are the first true urbanites to move into the White House since the ...

WASHINGTON D.C. Planners held a full-scale dress rehearsal for next week's presidential inauguration activities that featured among others, a mock inaugural address from President-elect Barack Obama's stand-in. ...

Thursday, January 08, 2009 Manufacturing mobility chaos Aerial view of a traffic jam, 14th Street and the Mall, Washington, D.C., 1937.

The big front windows of the historic, multipurpose True Reformer building on U Street let in abundant natural light.

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Anyone intimately familiar with the nation's capital knows of its significant African-American population, a community both highly visible and deeply entrenched.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Sunday, December 7, starts the 44-day countdown to the inauguration of the 44th President of the United States, Barack Obama.