If your block has been the target of car break-ins or thefts, it’s possible that an absent minded neighbor is partly to blame. “All it takes is one car with a GPS or some other device showing in sight to set-off a series of break-ins,” said 1st District Commander Daniel Hickson. It’s the easy “get” that […]
Valentine’s Day is the pits! Sure for those people who are aged 13 to about 30 and in a new relationship Valentine’s Day is the most glorious, romantic day of the year, but for the rest of us—singletons, long-been marrieds and (the dreaded) married with kids—we know better. For the rest of us, Valentine’s Day […]
Did the sound of helicopters hovering overhead affect you or your pet’s sleeping habits on Thursday night? According to a news report from WUSA Channel 9, the 1200 block of Potomac Avenue was the end scene of a Virginia car chase. The suspect was apprehended by Metropolitan Police after a barricade situation, which shutdown several […]
For many folks the Christmas season isn’t the same without the twinkling of hundred (or thousands) of tiny lights adorning windows, eaves, bushes and banisters. While the Hill may not have the sprawling front yards on which to place the cavalry of toy soldiers or the life size replica of Santa and all his reindeer, […]
Earlier this year, DC resident Kathy Jackson lay in her hospital bed, weakened from the treatments to fight her leukemia. She couldn’t see her three children, Joseph, Sam, and Tyler (ages 12, 8, and 7, respectively) because exposure to their normal childhood germs could have been disastrous. A bone marrow transplant and chemotherapy had destroyed her immune […]