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The man who sued the District to overturn the city’s handgun ban has finally registered his own revolver.
After a 14-year wait, Dick Heller was able to register the weapon Monday at police headquarters. He walked out of the building clutching his yellow firearms registration certificate that was stamped, “approved.” He gave the thumbs up sign and called the effort a, “victory.” It took a month for Heller to get the registration permit for his .22 caliber revolver. Heller had to be fingerprinted,… Continue

One of the mayor’s top legal advisers quits his job. Garrett Lee stepped down from his post after Interim Attorney General Peter Nickles discovered ethics allegations against him and asked him to resign. The interim Deputy General Counsel was disbarred last week by the DC Bar Counsel, the city’s top legal ethics monitor. Lee was charged with gross negligence, incompetence, false statements and perjury. The charges stem from a divorce case Lee handled while in private practice. Bar Counsel docume… Continue

The attorney for the group suing the District over its police checkpoints says the city should be doing more to protect its citizens from crime.

Mara Verheyden-Hilliard is co-founder of the non-profit Partnership for Civil Justice. She went before a federal judge earlier this month to try and get a preliminary injunction to stop the checkpoints until the court decides whether they’re constitutional.

Judge Leon Swain failed to rule on the injunction saying he needed more information from both s… Continue

WAMU 88.5 News has learned that another infant under the care of the District's embattled Child and Family Services agency has died. Council member Tommy Wells is chair of the committee that oversees the agency. He says he knows very little about the four to five month-old infant except that abuse or neglect had been reported. He also added that the case was one of the nearly seventeen hundred reported to be backlogged within the agency. Wells says he's especially disheartened because he had jus… Continue

In the wake of the recent death of a sixth-month old baby boy, the commitees on public health and human services are holding a public hearing on the District's Child and Family Services Agency. Isiah Garcia died late last month after it was reported to the CFSA hotline that the he was being neglected. The city later unveiled that the social worker in charge of the case never visited the child or his family. As a result, the caseworker was fired and her supervisor was put on administrative leave… Continue