Fri Nov 26, 2010 11:26 AM EST
Lorenia Ton visits the morgues of southern Arizona searching for clues among the unclaimed bodies and belongings of people who tried to cross the desert.
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Sat Oct 2, 2010 7:46 PM EDT
CBS Radio News correspondent Howard Arenstein has been arrested on marijuana charges in Washington.
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Thu Sep 30, 2010 3:08 PM EDT
Former President Jimmy Carter landed in Washington on Thursday after spending two nights in an Ohio hospital recovering from a viral infection that doctors say likely gave him stomach problems.
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Sat Sep 18, 2010 1:43 PM EDT
Some members of a GOP establishment that once shunned tea party favorite Christine O'Donnell are getting behind her now that she has won the Republican Senate primary, offering help in the form of cash and experienced staffers.
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Fri Aug 27, 2010 3:40 PM EDT
On the eve of conservative commentator Glenn Beck's rally at the Lincoln Memorial, a blogger's assertion that parts of the nation's capital should be avoided touched off accusations of racism and a sharp response by angry city leaders.
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Fri Aug 13, 2010 10:59 AM EDT
A northern Virginia woman says her family is grateful that authorities have arrested a suspect in a stabbing spree in three states that left her 15-year-old son injured.
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Fri Aug 6, 2010 2:12 PM EDT
The brother of a woman whose body was found in what police described as a trash-filled apartment last week in Prince George's County says his sister never sold or used drugs.
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Wed Jul 21, 2010 8:21 PM EDT
A 27-year-old man who police have alleged is a serial killer has been indicted in the deaths of a mother and daughter last year in Maryland.
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Wed Jul 21, 2010 12:12 AM EDT
A nonprofit group in Washington says the number of police officers who have died in the line of duty is up 43 percent so far this year.
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Thu Jun 3, 2010 9:13 PM EDT
Former slugger Jose Canseco said he told a federal grand jury Thursday that he had never seen Roger Clemens use steroids, maintaining the support he's shown for the former ace since 2008.
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Fri May 7, 2010 5:00 AM EDT
Nannie Lawrence remembers her 2-year-old granddaughter as a playful and precocious toddler, trying on her mother's wigs and changing her own clothes.
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Thu Apr 29, 2010 7:24 PM EDT
Just four weeks after one of the deadliest shootings the nation's capital has experienced in years, one of the suspects kept his head up but his voice low Thursday as he accepted responsibility in the slayings.
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Thu Apr 1, 2010 12:08 PM EDT
The head of security at the Pentagon says new safety measures are being implemented since a gunman opened fire at the building.
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Thu Jan 7, 2010 3:03 AM EST
The death of a white supremacist accused of opening fire at the Holocaust museum has left some conflicted — not sorry he's gone, but frustrated that he won't stand trial.
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Sat Dec 26, 2009 2:49 PM EST
Victoria Avila was 1 when her father went missing, snatched up by agents of Argentina's former military dictatorship in 1977.
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Thu Dec 17, 2009 8:06 PM EST
A police officer in the nation's capital is accused of being the lookout for a robbery that ended in the death of one of the suspects and driving away from the scene when a woman ran to his cruiser pleading for help.
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Sat Sep 26, 2009 7:16 AM EDT
As the ex-wife of the notorious D.C. sniper emptied herself during a 30-day fast five years ago, one question tormented her — why did he want to kill her?
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Tue Sep 22, 2009 4:09 PM EDT
Vice President Joe Biden sought to reassure nervous seniors Wednesday that they won't see cuts in their Medicare benefits if the nation's health care system is revamped.
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Sat Sep 12, 2009 3:14 PM EDT
Tens of thousands of protesters fed up with government spending marched to the U.S. Capitol on Saturday, showing their disdain for the president's health care plan with slogans such as "Obamacare makes me sick" and "I'm not your ATM."
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Sat Sep 12, 2009 12:57 PM EDT
Tens of thousands of people marched to the U.S. Capitol on Saturday, carrying signs with slogans such as "Obamacare makes me sick" as they protested the president's health care plan and what they say is out-of-control spending.
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Thu Jul 2, 2009 11:15 AM EDT
A judge will decide the case of a woman accused of killing her four daughters, whose bodies were found decomposing in the family's southeast Washington home in January 2008.
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Wed Jun 10, 2009 9:55 PM EDT
As an elderly white supremacist approached the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, security guard Stephen T. Johns unknowingly held open the door — a final act that friends and family said Thursday was typical of his kindness for others.
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Wed Jun 10, 2009 6:14 PM EDT
An 88-year-old gunman with a violent and virulently anti-Semitic past opened fire with a rifle inside the crowded U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum on Wednesday, fatally wounding a security guard before being shot himself by other officers, authorities said.
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Wed Jun 10, 2009 5:15 PM EDT
An elderly gunman, said by authorities to have a violent and virulently anti-Semitic past, stepped inside the crowded U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum on Wednesday, opened fire with a rifle and fatally wounded a security guard before being shot by other officers.
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Wed Jun 10, 2009 3:21 PM EDT
An elderly gunman, said by authorities to have a violent and virulently anti-Semitic past, stepped inside the crowded U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum on Wednesday, opened fire with a rifle and fatally wounded a security guard before being shot by other officers.
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