"The district court had no general discretion to excuse civil contempt," Judge Neomi Rao wrote for the D.C. Circuit.

A group of D.C. firefighters won a major legal victory Tuesday after a federal appeals court ruled the city may have violated a 2007 court order that allowed them to keep their beards for religious ...

DC Fire Lieutenant Robert Heaney died earlier this ... The dude was just real chill and if you ever had the hair standing up on the back of your neck and you would look at him and see he was ...

The Court of Appeals for the District ordered a new hearing for D.C. firefighters seeking damages against their department ...

New Colts defensive coordinator Lou Anarumo will remind you a lot of the guy he replaced, Gus Bradley, only with better hair and more excuses.

WASHINGTON (DC News Now) — DC Fire and EMS said a woman has died after an apartment fire in Northwest D.C. on Saturday morning. Crews said they were dispatched to the 1800 block of Newton St. for a ...

WASHINGTON — DC Fire and EMS members are mourning a 24-year veteran of the department. On Wednesday, the DC Fire released a statement announcing the passing of Lieutenant Robert J. Heaney.

The first fire happened at about 9:30 p.m. Friday and resulted in the death of a man in his 50s. The cause of that fire, at 13th Street and Park Road, has been ruled as an accident — the result ...

The fire began in the first floor, according to DC Fire and EMS, and though it was put out quickly after first responders arrived around 5:30 a.m., it did significant damage in that short time.

The fire happened on the first floor of the three-story building at 5:30 a.m. on Saturday.(Courtesy DC Fire and EMS) Two people are dead after two separate apartments caught fire in Northwest D.C ...

WASHINGTON — DC Fire & EMS say firefighters were called to a second story apartment on the 3400 block of 13th Street Northwest around 9:30 Friday night. Officials say one man was rushed to the ...