WASHINGTON — The nearly five-year federal investigation of ex-District of Columbia mayor Vincent Gray ended Wednesday with no charges filed, a victory for the longtime public servant who maintained he was unaware his aides were breaking the law to help ...

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WASHINGTON — D.C. Councilwoman Muriel Bowser is running for mayor. Political consultant Tom Lindenfeld tells The Associated Press that Bowser will announce her candidacy Saturday morning outside her childhood home in northeast Washington. Bowser is a 40-year-old Democrat who has ...

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WASHINGTON — Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley has given away the money donated to his campaign by a businessman tied to a federal probe of District of Columbia Mayor Vincent Gray’s campaign. O’Malley spokesman Rick Abbruzzese tells The Washington Post the ...

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RICHMOND, Va. — District of Columbia Mayor Vincent C. Gray is the new chairman of the Chesapeake Executive Council, the policy-making body of the program overseeing the restoration of the Chesapeake Bay. Gray’s election came Monday at the annual meeting ...

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WASHINGTON — A second former aide to District of Columbia Mayor Vincent Gray was charged Wednesday with a federal offense arising from Gray’s 2010 campaign and is likely to plead guilty, a day after another aide’s guilty plea revealed the ...

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WASHINGTON — In a case that revealed underhanded tactics used to get Vincent Gray elected mayor of Washington, a former Gray campaign aide pleaded guilty Tuesday to funneling campaign funds to another mayoral candidate and shredding records of the transactions. ...

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WASHINGTON — A former District of Columbia mayoral candidate who was set to go to trial on a charge of driving without a valid license will have to return to court. Sulaimon Brown’s trial on the traffic charge was supposed ...

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WASHINGTON — D.C. Councilmember Harry Thomas Jr. was charged Thursday with stealing more than $350,000 in government funds and filing false tax returns. The two felony counts against Thomas, a 51-year-old Democrat, were detailed in a criminal information filed in ...

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WASHINGTON — The nation’s capital, ravaged more than two decades ago by a violent crack epidemic that drove up murder rates, is on pace to record the fewest number of homicides in nearly a half century, officials said Thursday. The ...

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WASHINGTON — District of Columbia leaders have rejected a proposal by a leading House Republican to give the city greater budget autonomy because it also contains language restricting their ability to spend taxpayer dollars on abortion. The draft bill from ...

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