Prep girls soccer: Starkville Academy gets another win
Sara Stokes McReynolds, Lauren Bock, Kat McCaskill and Mia Kate Cade all scored for the Vols
Prep football capsules: Heritage Academy must stay focused to finish off perfect regular season
The Patriots (10-0) and Washington (2-7) have played five of the same opponents this season, with the Generals losing all but their matchup with Bayou. But that doesn’t mean coach Sean Harrison’s team can afford to overlook its opponent Thursday.
Connie Schultz: A gunman shoots, and we become a family
As the wife of a U.S. senator, I work hard to keep separate my marriage and my career as a newspaper columnist.
Hello? People swamp Congress with phone calls in era of Trump
President Donald Trump has promised to shake up Washington, but so far he’s produced gridlock — at least with the phone lines on Capitol Hill.
Mall shooting suspect: ‘Creepy,’ multiple arrests, disputes
The 20-year-old man suspected of killing five people with a rifle at a Macy’s makeup counter was described by a neighbor as so “creepy, rude and obnoxious” that she kept a Taser by her front door.
Hospital: Teen wounded in school shooting dies
One of the teenagers wounded in a Washington state high school shooting died Sunday night, raising the number of fatalities from when a student opened fire in a cafeteria to three.
Work stops briefly to honor victims
Crews searching for victims in the tangled debris field from the Washington mudslide halted their work Saturday for a moment of silence to honor those lost.
Community copes with deadly mudslide
First there was a “whoosh.” Elaine Young said she thought it might be a chimney fire, a rush of air that lasted about 45 seconds. But when she stepped outside there was ominous silence. Something felt very, very wrong.
No ‘signs of life’ after huge landslide
Hopes of finding any more survivors from a massive mudslide that killed at least eight people waned as searchers pulled more bodies from the tangled debris field and crews worked through the night into Monday in rural Washington state.
From immigration to trade, inaction in Congress
Little more than a week after Groundhog Day, the evidence is mounting that lawmakers have all but wrapped up their most consequential work of 2014, at least until the results of the fall elections are known.
Wash., Colo., have few ways to stop weed leaving
Among the many oddities that have arisen from marijuana legalization in Washington and Colorado is this: It can be easier to get through airport security with a bag of weed than a bottle of water.
Denver mayor sparks Super Bowl chile battle
A friendly Super Bowl bet between the mayors of Seattle and Denver is causing a stir in New Mexico.
Navy Yard opening after massacre
WASHINGTON — Some employees returning to work at the Washington Navy Yard Thursday said they felt it was too early to talk about the massacre
VA: Gunman didn’t reveal homicidal thoughts
WASHINGTON — The man who gunned down 12 people at the Washington Navy Yard on Monday visited two hospitals in the weeks before the rampage
Navy Yard gunman told police he was hearing voices
WASHINGTON — A month before he went on the shooting rampage that killed 12 people, Washington Navy Yard gunman Aaron Alexis complained to police in
Shooting reignites gun talk, but bills still cold
WASHINGTON — A deadly shooting in the heart of the nation’s capital has reignited talk about guns, but it’s uncertain whether the tragedy will revive
13 killed in Washington Navy Yard shooting rampage
WASHINGTON — The deadly attack at the Washington Navy Yard was carried out by one of the military’s own: a defense contract employee and former
50 years after King, marchers gather again in D.C.
WASHINGTON — Next week, the nation’s first black president, a living symbol of the racial progress Martin Luther King Jr. dreamed about, will stand near
Governors warn Washington against fiscal inaction
MILWAUKEE — The nation’s governors have a warning for President Barack Obama and Congress: A fiscal standoff in Washington this fall could be catastrophic for
FBI searches apartment in ricin letter case
SPOKANE, Wash. — Authorities in hazardous materials suits searched a downtown Spokane apartment Saturday, investigating the recent discovery of a pair of letters containing the
