Two months after the war ended, Confederate soldiers destroyed a fleet of Yankee ships, which were harvesting bowhead whales ...

A civil rights lawyer preparing for a new position with Howard University’s law school died in Wednesday evening’s plane crash at Reagan National Airport. Already working in D.C. for quite ...

ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — Police boats combed the banks of the Potomac River on Friday, slowly scanning the shoreline in the rain as investigators sought clues into the midair collision that killed ...

An American Airlines plane passes in the foreground as a member of a dive team and a Coast Guard vessel with a crane work near the wreckage of a Black Hawk helicopter in the Potomac River from ...

A sea captain and namesake of Conyngham Borough so harassed merchant ships that the English hesitated to sail around their island during the Revolutionary War. Gustavus Conyngham was feared in ...

A Norwegian ship suspected of being involved in "serious damage" to an underwater telecoms cable between Latvia and Sweden has been boarded by police. The Silver Dania cargo vessel, with an all ...

Just 24 hours before Wednesday’s catastrophic plane crash over the Potomac in which a regional American Airlines jet collided with a Black Hawk helicopter, another plane was forced to abort its ...

More than 20 victims had been identified as of Friday morning, including young figure skaters, coaches and parents. Roberto Marquez constructs makeshift memorial near the Potomac River.