Textiles Press Releases

About 2.4 inches had already fallen in the D.C. area, and parts of the region could see a month’s worth of rain on Friday.

Regional prices for goods and services in D.C. were 18% higher than the national average in 2012,

The “District” in “District of Columbia” can now be capitalized on second reference, AP said in a Stylebook update in March. (I didn’t notice it until AP reporter Ben Nuckols tweeted about it this morning; this change was overshadowed somewhat by AP’s shift on “over” and “more than,” one of the most important events in Stylebook history.)

Foodies are flocking to Washington for the city’s diverse – and rapidly expanding – culinary scene.

In a ruling Thursday, U.S. District Judge James Boasberg said the city seeks to combat gun violence and promote public safety and that the current law does so in a constitutionally permissible manner.

Officials say they were stolen, and the postal service logos painted over before being taken to recycling centers in the area by two Anne Arundel County men: 52-year-old Aaron Howard and 57-year-old Roland Muir.

Police say the two sold 380,000 pounds of the scrap aluminum and made almost a quarter million dollars in cash before they were caught.

 

D.C. police found two gunshot victims at separate crime scenes Wednesday afternoon.

Crews responded to the 5800 block of Field Place NE around 3:30 p.m. for a shooting, a couple blocks from H.D. Woodson High School. There, they found a man not conscious or breathing. Homicide detectives have been dispatched to the scene.

In a press release, DCPS Chancellor Kaya Henderson announced a proposal to “transform Roosevelt High School into a new international relations focused school.” The school, temporarily located at the shuttered neighboring MacFarland Middle School, will move back into its old building after renovation is complete in the fall of 2015. 

Washington, D.C. provides the best access and funding to state-funded pre-kindergarten programs in the country, a new study reports.

School psychologists may end up spending most of their time in meetings about special education students and won’t have enough time to interact with a general school population dealing with its own mental health issues.