The death penalty is divisive. Support for and opposition to it is not as easy as political party or position. It is all over the map. There are people with firmly held convictions about crime and law ...

A hit-and-run driver has crashed into an outdoor birthday party in suburban Washington, D.C., killing a woman and injuring eight children.

D.C. police have released the name of a man who was killed in a stabbing on Benning Road in Northeast late Thursday night.