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Gail Ertel cares for her great-granddaughter, McKenzie Campbell, who is blind, autistic and medically fragile. Since McKenzie requires constant attention, Ertel is unable to work and must rely on outside funding to make ends meet.

Family, friends remember one of the Metro crash victims at a vigil in Hyattsville, Md.

Locals and visitors react to the shooting at the U.S. Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C.

Matt Bowie, a T8 paraplegic who lost mobility in his legs due to a spinal cord injury in 1981, races his 1970 Camaro SS using adaptive hand controls at the 75-80 Dragway in Monrovia, Md., every weekend. Video by Whitney Shefte / The Washington Post

Every Saturday at dawn, dozens of people line up outside the Ambassador Baptist Church in S.E. Washington. In recent months, the demand for food assistance in the D.C. area has grown significantly.

Business is good at the bartending school in Arlington, Va. Enrollment is up 25 percent. Soul-searchers, college graduates and the unemployed look to the service industry for answers.

First-time home buyers and eager investors take advantage of low interest rates, falling prices and the D.C. area's abundance of foreclosed properties.

At the Newseum, the public rates Obama's first months in office.

More than a year after 14-year-old DeOnte Rawlings was shot in the head by an off-duty police officer, his father Charles reflects on the loss of his son.

Virginians gather in Wakefield to eat shad, drink beer and mingle with gubernatorial candidates Bob McDonnell (R), Brian Moran (D) and Terry McAuliffe (D) at the annual Shad Planking.

A former embalmer at National Funeral Home in Falls Church, Va., exposes how some bodies were stored in the facility's unrefrigerated garage.

Molly O'Hare, 10, a fourth-grader at St. James Catholic School in Falls Church, Va., can list all of the Presidents of the United States in order, backwards and by random number.

David Williams, program director of the Community Conferencing Center in Baltimore, visits a school to facilitate dialogue circles among students. He uses the drum as a tool to get children to talk. Read the Post Magazine cover story

The Community Conferencing Center, a non-profit organization in Baltimore, helps people settle disputes by talking to one another face-to-face. Read the Post Magazine cover story

Air Force dog handlers train canines to search for explosives and narcotics in war zones and for domestic patrols.