About 300 of the approximately 2,600 federal prison inmates from the District of Columbia have registered to vote in the November general elections, according to a review by the News4 I-Team. A newly passed D.C. law gave voting rights to incarcerated felons from the District, but efforts to register and provide ballots to those inmates have encountered hurdles, the I-Team…

New satellite voting centers are opening in Fairfax County in hopes of reducing wait times for voters. Fairfax County voters hoping for shorter lines at the polls now have thirteen new sites to choose from. Registered voters can cast their ballot at any location. Since early in-person voting began last month, long lines have stretched out of the Fairfax County…

Five employees of the Maryland Motor Vehicle Administration have tested positive for COVID-19 and one of them has died, officials say. The Largo branch office, where the five employees work, has been cleaned and disinfected but remains open, according to a Maryland Department of Transportation MVA spokesperson. Customers and staff are required to wear face coverings and participate in a…

The Office of Police Complaints found more than one-third of D.C. law enforcement — a total of 1,220 officers — reporting using some type of force in 2019 and almost all subjects were Black. The number of officers reporting use of force is down 8% from the year before. However, the number was 40% higher than in 2015. The OPC,…

Many D.C. residents recently diagnosed with COVID-19 reported going to social events, restaurants, bars and work in the two weeks before they were diagnosed.  D.C.’s health department provided data Wednesday on diagnoses in the District. More than 16,000 cases of the virus have been diagnosed and 638 people have died.  More than half of residents who were diagnosed during a…

The quarantine has been a good time for many of us to consider picking up a new hobby — or, for one Northern Virginia dad, sharing an old pastime that now has the whole neighborhood excited. Unicycling is sweeping a neighborhood after father of three Joe Belt taught his kids how to ride on just one wheel. Belt grew up…

A list of recent residential real estate transactions in the District.

A federal judge has extended the deadline for registering to vote in Virginia by 48 hours after the state’s online voter registration system went down because of a cable that was accidentally severed. Wednesday’s order by U.S. District Judge John A. Gibney, Jr. in Richmond is an effort to make up for several hours of lost time on Tuesday, which…