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A boy is dead, and a man was taken to the hospital after a double shooting Friday in the Northwest D.C. neighborhood of Petworth.

Who hasn’t had moments of self-examination during the past year? “We had wonderful resources, and no way of sharing them,” says Cape Ann Museum’s director, Oliver Barker, recalling the time last spring when museums worldwide were forced to close. “Prior to the pandemic, we were analog,” he says. “We needed to find a way to use art, past and present, to engage people. We started by looking at what happened on Cape Ann in 1918.” Illustrating Barker’s point, one of the most striking images in “CAM (Re)Connects,” an exhibition on view now at the Pleasant Street campus, is a...

Staff writer TORONTO — Several traffic-related issues were raised at last week’s Toronto Council meeting and a few will be discussed further by council’s safety committee at 5 p.m. today at City Hall. Council received a letter from resident Russ Kuntz, who said large trucks have veered into his yard at North Third Street and Cleveland Avenue and one came close to hitting his home because the street isn’t wide enough. Kuntz said many truck drivers are following their Global Positioning Systems and not the posted truck route, and he offered to distribute maps to them. Council Pres...

Long before Jackson achieved worldwide recognition as a Hidden Figure, she forged strong ties in her Olde Hampton community.

The coming center near Grant Circle would be a focal point of the Olde Hampton neighborhood, where Jackson grew up.