WASHINGTON — The Washington Examiner is ending local coverage. The last edition of the free newspaper that covered D.C.-area news for eight years is on newsstands Friday, carrying the headline “Thank you, Washington.” A new website and weekly magazine focused on national politics will debut next week. The paper’s Denver-based parent company, Clarity Media Group,
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The District has a higher percentage of female residents than any of the 50 states, according to census data released Thursday. About 52.3 percent of D.C. residents are female, just outpacing Rhode Island and Maryland at 51.6 percent each, according to census data. Alaska, at the other extreme, is 52.1 percent male. Women are drawn
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As CSN Washington reported three weeks ago, John Wall and Bradley Beal of the Wizards will compete at USA Basketball Men’s National Team mini-camp in Las Vegas. It was made official Wednesday. The camp is July 22-25, coming on the heels of the NBA’s summer league, also in Las Vegas from July 12-22. “It is
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The interior of Frager’s Hardware, a neighborhood institution on Capitol Hill, is seen here in 2011. Frager’s Hardware reopened for business Sunday just days after a crippling fire, as a still-stunned Capitol Hill community helped the iconic store begin to recover. The store’s owners resumed operations a few blocks away from the Pennsylvania Avenue building,
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Former D.C. Councilman Michael Brown, once among the most influential figures in District politics and a man many believed possessed the raw political talent to ascend to the mayoralty, pleaded guilty on Monday to accepting $55,000 in bribes during an FBI sting operation. “How do you wish to plead to this charge of bribery of
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Ruby Corado stood in the D.C. Jail, surrounded by 60 male inmates. Earlier that night in March 2008, a domestic dispute with her then-boyfriend had landed them both behind bars. Though Corado looked like, dressed like, and identified as a woman, she’d been housed with the men because of her genitalia. Prison staff instructed her
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President Barack Obama brought the Super Bowl champion Baltimore Ravens to the White House on Wednesday to congratulate the team on its improbable playoff run. He extolled quarterback Joe Flacco, who signed a $100 million contract after his MVP performance in the Super Bowl, as well as a last-minute Hail Mary touchdown pass to keep
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D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D) has gotten the support of several influential advocacy and grassroots organizations as she fights amendments to District appropriation bills – known as riders – that are put on legislation without her approval. Norton announced the support of advocacy organizations – whom she referred to as “freedom fighters” – at
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A city contractor said he may have paid a personal bill for D.C. Council member Marion Barry last year, an apparent violation of the legislature’s ethics rules. Barry reported receiving gifts in 2012 worth $2,800 from Forney Enterprises Inc. and $4,800 from F&L Construction on a financial disclosure statement he filed last month. The Ward
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