Keith L. Alexander –

Demonstrators participate in a protest march on August 9, 2015 on West Florissant Avenue in Ferguson, Missouri, marking the one year anniversary of an unarmed black teen, Michael Brown, who was shot and killed by a white police officer, throwing America's troubled race relations into harsh relief.

Police gunfire: Unarmed black men 7 times more likely to die than whites

June 22, 2019 at 9:04 p.m.

It begins with a relatively minor incident: A traffic stop. A burglary. A disturbance. Police arrive and tensions escalate. It ends with an unarmed black man shot dead. That pattern...

Tamir Rice, 12, was fatally shot by Cleveland police.

Police are fatally shooting people at twice the rate reported by FBI: Post analysis

June 20, 2019 at 8:58 a.m.

In an alley in Denver, police gunned down a 17-year-old girl joyriding in a stolen car. In the backwoods of North Carolina, police opened fire on a gun-wielding moonshiner. And...

Donny Ray Williams Jr., a former congressional aide, pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting two women. He was injured in an unrelated acid attack.

Washington aide who admitted 2 assaults avoids jail after he becomes a victim

August 18, 2019 at 7:10 p.m.

She sat in the back of the courtroom, wearing oversize black sunglasses, watching as the former Democratic congressional aide was sentenced for slipping a sedative into her drink and then...

Airline merger faces internal turbulence

August 20, 2021 at 10:39 a.m.

United Airlines wants to kill its current deal to buy US Airways in an effort to get a lower price and possibly new partners to serve the Washington area, sources...

JACKSON PRODS RTC TO SET AFFIRMATIVE CONTRACTING PLAN

August 10, 2021 at 8:50 a.m.

The Resolution Trust Corp. has discriminated against women, minorities and low-income groups in its contract-awarding policies, Rev. Jesse Jackson charged Thursday in a speech at the federal agency`s contracting seminar....

AT LEAST 1 GROWTH AREA IN RECESSION: FRANCHISES

August 10, 2021 at 9:50 a.m.

Franchise businesses have long attracted the wounded and disenchanted from the corporate wars, but seldom have economic conditions produced such a crop of willing, would-be entrepreneurs. A recent survey of...

JUDGE`S PAST JUST CASE OF REEFER MADNESS TO MANY

August 10, 2021 at 6:47 a.m.

It is not exactly one generation`s dirty little secret. It`s more like a little smoke seeping from the closet. For the second time, a Supreme Court nominee has acknowledged trying...

FEAR DOESN`T CEASE WITH COURT ORDER

August 10, 2021 at 8:53 a.m.

Perhaps if Gail McGrew had carried a weapon in her purse instead of an order of protection, she could have fended off the gunman who shot her six times inside...

MAY SCORCHER IS A TASTE OF SUMMER TORTURE

August 10, 2021 at 5:59 a.m.

For those of you who love to see records broken, there`s some bad news and some good news. And for those of you who hate those electric bills, there`s just...

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