Fairfax County officials voted Tuesday to publicly advertise a budget proposal that could increase the residential property rate as much as 8 cents per $100 of assessed value.

The District's bid to attract the corporate headquarters of Northrop Grumman is unraveling as several D.C. Council members question whether the city should offer the Fortune 100 company a proposed $25 million tax-incentive package.

A District man pleaded guilty Monday to second-degree murder charges in a 2007 stabbing, just one day before he was scheduled to face a retrial in the case. The first case was dismissed because an assistant U.S. attorney admitted withholding evidence from defense attorneys.

-- A Dec. 31 A-section article about Rep. John P. Murtha's use of earmarks for federal spending projects, and the extent to which the numbers of jobs promised were delivered, incorrectly said that in 2005 the Pennsylvania Democrat steered $150 million to Caracal Inc., a technology company opening in...

On a windy morning in downtown Washington, a hundred Georgetown Law students gathered in a hall for David Cole's lecture on democracy and coercion. The desks were cluttered with books, Thermoses and half-eaten muffins.

Mei Xiang, the female giant panda, ambled into the narrow cage and, as trained, rolled onto her back. National Zoo biologist Laurie Thompson sat near her head, feeding her apple slices from a plastic bowl. Veterinarian Jessica Siegal-Willott knelt by the bear's hind legs, running an ultrasound...

RICHMOND -- A Virginia Senate committee on Monday killed a proposal championed by House Speaker William J. Howell that would have helped protect a Fortune 500 company from asbestos lawsuits.

Campus activists across Virginia put spring break on hold Monday to mobilize against Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli II, who has riled student groups with a letter advising public universities to retreat from their policies against discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.

Dominic Russoli retired in 2001 from an Air Force squadron that flies national leaders, and he is now a paralegal at the Justice Department. He had been in the military for 22 years, almost as long as he has been with his partner, Rolf Preisendorfer.