District residents can elect their own lawmakers, but Congress has broad authority over the D.C. government, as part of a 1973 agreement known as Home Rule.

A 19-year-old from Oroville, Dakota Elliot, has been found guilty of first-degree murder in the 2023 killing of 20-year-old ...

The legislation targets the district’s problems with juvenile violence, lowering the “age of eligibility for juveniles to be ...

Chairman Comer supports H.R. 5140, aiming to curb juvenile crime by allowing harsher sentencing for minors in D.C.

The teenage suspect charged with the attempted murder of San Francisco 49ers' wide receiver Ricky Pearsall last year will be ...

The issue of life with parole sentences for juveniles is back before the court in the person of Lee Boyd Malvo, who as a teenager terrorized the Washington, D.C., region in 2002 as one-half of a ...

House Republicans push for stricter juvenile crime laws in D.C., citing higher arrest rates and advocating for a public crime ...

Tennessee lawmakers have sent a bill to Gov. Bill Lee’s (R-TN) desk introducing “blended sentencing,” which is when the worst juvenile offenders can be handed adult punishments after they age out of ...