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Raleigh Tops in Quality of Life
 Raleigh Tops 
 in Quality of Life 
survey says
May 24, 2010 4:15 PM CDT

Raleigh Tops in Quality of Life

(Newser) - Raleigh, NC, is the American city with the highest quality of life, according to a new survey by Portfolio magazine . With its low unemployment rate, quality housing stock, and rapid pace of growth, Raleigh beat out the other 66 largest metro areas in a comparison of 20 statistical measures of...

Michelle Obama to GWU Grads: 'Keep Giving'

First lady urges new alumni to stay involved

(Newser) - When Michelle Obama agreed to be George Washington University's commencement speaker, she challenged the school's 5,000 seniors to do 100,000 hours of community service. They completed 163,980 hours, reports the Washington Post , spurring the first lady to joke at today's ceremony that if she had known they...

Congress Likes to Hitch Rides With Military to Meetings

Pentagon hauls legislators around DC

(Newser) - Military vehicles routinely haul members of Congress not only to countries around the world but to meetings around Washington. Congressional delegations sometimes ask the Pentagon for expensive military transportation to the White House or ceremonial events in DC, documents obtained by Roll Call show. The military has even provided shuttle...

Teens Used Sex Line to Murder Principal: Cops

Three 18-year-olds arrested after apparent robbery gone wrong

(Newser) - Police believe three 18-year-olds used a sex chat line help set up DC-area high school principal Brian Betts for a robbery, which turned into a murder. Police say Betts met someone online, who gave him the phone number. “It's been described as a sex chat line, a social networking...

Citing Security, Supreme Court Closes Entrance

Visitors may still exit at iconic pillars, walk down marble steps

(Newser) - The Supreme Court is closing its iconic front entrance beneath the words "Equal Justice Under Law." Beginning tomorrow, visitors no longer will ascend the wide marble steps to enter the 75-year-old building. Instead, they will be directed to a central screening facility to the side of and beneath...

Loaded Kennedy Cut Off After 6 Shots

He thinks Obama is better than JFK—when drunk, at least

(Newser) - Just hours after recalling his history of substance abuse—he was even introduced by his former sponsor—Rep. Patrick Kennedy got loaded at a bar and was cut off after six shots of vodka. He seemed to have a good time though—a tipster tells Roll Call that Kennedy was...

DC Council Approves Medical Marijuana

Distribution centers could be running within the year

(Newser) - Happy 4/20 day, America: Legal marijuana could be available in the nation's capital in a matter of months. The city council of Washington DC today approved the sale of medicinal pot from sanctioned distribution centers, the Post reports. People who have HIV, cancer, glaucoma and the ever-vague "chronic and...

'Kumar' Robbed at Gunpoint
 'Kumar' Robbed at Gunpoint 
Apr 20, 2010 2:00 PM CDT

'Kumar' Robbed at Gunpoint

Actor Kal Penn wasn't hurt in DC incident

(Newser) - Actor Kal Penn—much better known as "Kumar" from the Harold and Kumar flicks—was robbed at gunpoint this morning in Washington, DC, reports TMZ . The incident happened as he was walking around 1:20am. He was unhurt. Penn has been in DC working for the Obama administration of...

Teen Charged With Kidnapping Teacher

Victim carjacked, forced to withdraw money from ATM

(Newser) - A 15-year-old has been charged in Washington, DC, with kidnapping one of his teachers and forcing her to withdraw money from an ATM. Police say the teen and an adult accomplice ambushed her as she left her part-time job on Saturday morning, forced her into her vehicle, and drove her...

DC Teacher's Union Agrees to Merit Pay

Hard-won deal could become model for country, but it's pricey

(Newser) - Washington DC’s school district has struck a breakthrough deal with its teacher’s union that includes a merit-based pay system and eliminates what DC’s school chancellor called “ridiculous hurdles” to firing ineffective teachers. Teacher’s unions have long opposed linking pay to classroom performance, but they agreed...

9 Shot, 3 Killed in DC Drive-By
 9 Shot, 3 Killed in DC Drive-By 
Mar 31, 2010 5:43 AM CDT

9 Shot, 3 Killed in DC Drive-By

3 busted, motive unknown

(Newser) - Three people were killed and at least six others injured when a gunman sprayed bullets into a crowd from a car in the nation's capital last night. DC police arrested three people after a chase that left four officers injured, the Washington Post reports. No motive has been established for...

This Week Move Risky for ABC, Amanpour

Foreign correspondent is odd fit for DC-centric This Week

(Newser) - Christiane Amanpour isn't an obvious choice to host ABC’s Sunday gabfest This Week, but the network is confident in its choice. ABC says “Interviews and analysis about domestic politics and policies” will remain the show's focus, with the addition of an “international perspective.” Counting on a...

DC's Hottest Club: Finnish Sauna Society

Where bipartisan networking is nude and sweaty

(Newser) - The hottest secret society in Washington is the Diplomatic Finnish Sauna Society, a group of DC operatives who gather to sweat in the 190-degree heat of the traditional Finnish sauna at said country's Embassy. For the society's 150 sauna-goers—Capitol Hill staffers, lobbyists, White House officials, and journalists—sauna networking...

12 Rapes, 4 States, 13 Years, and Still on Loose

Cops from Va. to RI still hunting for East Coast Rapist

(Newser) - A man responsible for at least 12 rapes over the past 13 years, in four states from Virginia to Rhode Island, continues to elude authorities, who now think the suspect—described as a black man in his early to mid-30s, and a smoker—is back in the Washington suburbs, where...

DC High School Hires Female Football Coach
 DC High School Hires 
 Female Football Coach 
... WHICH MAKES 2 IN US
Mar 12, 2010 10:50 PM CST

DC High School Hires Female Football Coach

Natalie Randolph, 29, one of just two in the US

(Newser) - A 29-year-old science teacher became just the second female head football coach at a US high school today, with Washington’s Coolidge High introducing Natalie Randolph. The 29-year-old played on a DC women’s team, and was an assistant coach at another city high school. “I love football, no...

DC Celebrates First Gay Marriages

Crush at marriage bureau as same-sex couples wed

(Newser) - Wedded bliss descended on Washington, DC, today, as the District’s first same-sex couples were married. About 15 couples visited the marriage bureau in the first hour it was open to pick up their certificates, the Post reports, with one couple running upstairs to the office of a judge to...

Top Cities Beating the Recession

DC is No. 1, but Texas has a bunch in the top 10

(Newser) - The number-crunchers at Forbes have come up with a list of the top cities where the recession is easing. The formula takes into account projected job growth and housing prices. Here's the list:
  1. (tie) Washington, DC-Arlington-Alexandria
  2. (tie) Austin-Round Rock
  3. Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington
  4. (tie) Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington
  5. (tie) Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown

DC to Give Out Female Condoms
 DC to 
 Give Out 
 Female 
 Condoms 



HIV/AIDS FIGHT
Mar 6, 2010 6:25 AM CST

DC to Give Out Female Condoms

'Dream project' targets pockets of high-risk sexual behavior

(Newser) - Washington, DC, has given out condoms for almost a decade, but now the capital city is also offering up female condoms to boost its efforts to stem HIV infection rates. Some half-million free female condoms will soon blanket the District's schools, convenience stores, and salons in high-risk areas in a...

Same-Sex Couples Line Up for Marriage Licenses in DC

Nation's capital sixth place in US to legalize gay marriage

(Newser) - Same-sex couples can start applying for marriage licenses today in Washington, after the Supreme Court yesterday refused to block a law permitting gay marriage, and at least 16 couples were waiting at 7:15am inside the courthouse just blocks from the US Capitol that houses the marriage bureau. Sinjoyla Townsend,...

Muslim Women Fight Segregation in DC Mosque

US fights for Muslim women aboard, cops threaten arrest here

(Newser) - In an action they link to Rosa Parks' refusal to give up her seat on a bus in the civil rights movement, American Muslim women are battling against a "men only" prayer section in a DC mosque. Police were called recently to the Islamic Center of Washington when protesting...

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