Michaele and Tareq Salahi didn't look out of place at Tuesday's White House state dinner.

Thousands of drivers on the nation's roads don't carry auto insurance, despite laws in all but two states requiring it. Critics of President Barack Obama's health overhaul plan ask: What are the chances scofflaws will treat a requirement to carry health insurance any differently? Nearly 40 years of car insurance mandates - which the insurance industry says have failed to make roads safer or lower auto insurance costs - raise questions about how well such mandates work.

Arlington County officials say repairs to a water main that ruptured Monday should be completed before Thanksgiving Day is over.

Investigators are trying to figure out what prompted gunmen to shoot up a home in D.C.'s Park View neighborhood Thanksgiving Day, killing one man and wounding two others.