Clarence and Danny had already fished near the docks on Smoot Bay. They had taken their boat out to the rusted tug hulk in mid-river. They had tried Rich Man?s Cove, on the Virginia shore.

Clarence Eggleston, 10, a fifth-grader at Southwest?s Amidon-Bowen Elementary School, and Danny Moffat, 54, a retired UPS driver from St. Charles, were out on the Potomac on Friday in search of largemouth bass.

The House approved a non-binding measure late Thursday night calling for active-duty military personnel to be exempt from the District?s gun laws, the latest in a series of issues that have divided Congress and local leaders.

Marveling over what they billed as the potential future for getting around town, D.C. Council members Mary Cheh and Tommy Wells took a quick spin Thursday in Google?s new self-driving car.

Cheh (D-Ward 3), chairwoman of the Committee on the Environment, Public Works and Transportation, and Wells (D-Ward 6) rode about 10 blocks in the self-driving Toyota Prius following a briefing with Google officials at the company?s Washington office on New York Avenue NW.

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Democrats and District officials amplified their complaints Thursday ahead of an afternoon congressional hearing on a bill that would ban all abortions in the District after 20 weeks.

The District will get $70,349 of the record $45 million that Skechers is paying to settle charges that its line of toning shoes were hyped with unsubstantiated health-related claims, including weight loss and toning muscles.

Mayor Vincent C. Gray announced Wednesday that 3,000 District residents have now found jobs through the One City One Hire program, an aggressive effort to put 10,000 unemployed residents back to work in a year?s time.

The Montgomery County Council will be keeping nearly all of a unpopular tax increase on fuel and energy use that was set to sunset this year, legislators said Wednesday.

On Thursday, the Montgomery County legislators will announce the results of weeks-long deliberations over the county?s $4.6 billion operating budget and $4.3 billion six-year capital spending plan.

Maryland Gov. Martin O?Malley (D) is headed to New Hampshire next month, a trip certain to stoke talk about 2016 presidential ambitions.

O?Malley has been booked as the ?special guest? at the New Hampshire Democratic Party Convention on June 2 in Manchester.

Shortly after the conclusion of Maryland?s first special legislative session of the year, Gov. Martin O?Malley (D) committed to holding a second ? on a possible gambling expansion.

The governor had floated the idea before but sounded far more definitive during a gathering with reporters Wednesday afternoon.