Trinidad News

Here are some suggestions for your weekend travels and the rest of December. Avoid Wilson Bridge If all goes according to plan, drivers should avoid the outer loop near the bridge from 9 o'clock tonight through ...

Friday, October 31 A federal judge cleared the way for D.C. police to continue using checkpoints to screen motorists going into neighborhoods beset by crime, saying that the public had an "overwhelming need to ...

Officers man a checkpoint in June on Montello Avenue in the Trinidad community in Northeast Washington.

Thursday, September 4, 2008 7:30-9pm Washington Home of Aging Services 2601 18th Street NE Guests- Chancellor Michelle Rhee, DCPS Councilmember Kwame Brown Update on ANC 5B Developments Please note the ...

One person was shot dead late Saturday in the 1200 block of Holbrook Terrace, police said.

By Paul Duggan Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, August 3, 2008; Page C06 A District man was arrested on murder charges yesterday in the May 31 slayings of three men who were killed in a fusillade of bullets ...

A 13-year-old is dead and six others injured in a series of shootings in D.C.'s troubled Trinidad neighborhood.

"Killing time" is what locals call the midnight hour in Washington, DC's Trinidad Neighborhood.

A 13-year-old is dead and six others injured in a series of shootings in D.C.'s troubled Trinidad neighborhood.

Thursday, June 5 DC Mayor Adrian Fenty and Police Chief Kathy Lanier have announced one of the most intrinsically unconstitutional, unAmerican and stupid police operations ever designed: turning a neighborhood ...

Residents of Trinidad in Northeast Washington are shaking their heads at news that a police officer has been busted for allegedly trying to get sex from an undercover cop.

Today is the third and final part of Bill Wagner's Washington Ballparks . These three are the more familiar RFK Stadium and Griffith Stadium, and the lesser known American League Park.

Residents in one of the District's most violence-ridden neighborhoods are mostly indifferent to the prospect that handguns could legally return to the city after a 32-year ban.

By Del Quentin Wilber Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, June 20, 2008; 3:08 PM A civil rights group filed a federal lawsuit today to halt the D.C. police department's new checkpoint program, saying that the ...

By Allison Klein Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, June 15, 2008; Page C07 Mayor Adrian M. Fenty 's demand for a bold solution to a burst of violence in Northeast Washington led to the creation of the ...

By Daniel LeDuc Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, June 17, 2008; Page B04 D.C. Police Chief Cathy L. Lanier and interim Attorney General Peter Nickles yesterday defended using checkpoints to prevent ...

Drivers will have to show identification to police before gaining permission to enter the Trinidad neighborhood.

A notice posted in Trinidad alerts passersby to police efforts to secure the crime-plagued neighborhood.

COMMENT Washington Post Staff Writers Friday, June 6, 2008; Page B01 When D.C. police begin stopping cars at a "checkpoint" this weekend in the Trinidad neighborhood, they will record all license plate ...

Some in Trinidad neighborhood critical of anti-crime measure David C. Lipscomb Sunday, June 8, 2008 D.C. police set up their first vehicle checkpoint in the troubled Trinidad neighborhood Saturday night, but ...