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WASHINGTON, June 22 (UPI) -- One Metrorail commuter train rear-ended another in the Washington metro area Monday, killing at least six people, officials said.
WASHINGTON, June 10 (UPI) -- A U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum guard died of wounds received in an exchange of gunfire with an elderly suspected white supremacist Wednesday, officials said.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 1 (UPI) -- Two children and three adults died Thursday when fire consumed a home in the Brookland neighborhood of Washington, a fire department spokesman said.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 1 (UPI) -- Some 130 people were treated for eye irritations and a Washington, D.C., office building evacuated Wednesday after the accidental discharge of a mace canister.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 (UPI) -- Firefighters plucked three people from their cars stranded in water gushing from a broken 48-inch water main in the Georgetown area Saturday night. Fire Departm
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PATIENTS? BILL OF RIGHTS President Bush is calling for a Patients' Bill of Rights as part of a broad health care program, arguing that conflicts about treatment should "end in medical care, not litigation."
WASHINGTON, Feb. 11 (UPI) -- About 20 protesters, some of them homeless, congregated at the District of Columbia's main government building Monday, chanting, waving signs and demanding that
WASHINGTON, Feb. 11 (UPI) -- Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, Monday asked for an investigation into the possible health risks of irradiated mail, after Capitol Hill staff members complained of
WASHINGTON, Jan. 30 (UPI) -- Michael Hammond, the former dean of Rice University's Shepherd School of Music who recently was sworn in as chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, was
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