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If you lined them all up head to toe, they would stretch from the White House to south of Richmond.

They could fill every seat in FedEx Field and Verizon Center and still leave people out in the cold.

That’s how many people got a traffic ticket from a single speed camera on New York Avenue in 23 months.

Tickets issued: 116,734.

Fines levied: $11.6 million.

City sympathy for angry drivers: zero.

WASHINGTON (AP) — AAA Mid-Atlantic says the District of Columbia's use of speed and red-light cameras brought in a record $55 million in fiscal 2011 and could generate even more revenue this year.

The auto club said Thursday that the city has already issued about $40 million in automated enforcement tickets this fiscal year, which began Oct. 1.

The family of a 5-year-old girl who was badly shocked when she plugged a lamp into the wall of her D.C. Housing Authority home might get a new trial after the District's highest court ruled DCHA withheld documents during the original trial and then refused to respond to a Freedom of Information Act request.

The D.C. Court of Appeals has sent the lawsuit back to Superior Court, where a judge will determine if the family gets a new trial.

The D.C. police department has spent nearly $74 million in overtime payments to have officers sit in cars monitoring the city’s “automated” photo radar guns, records show.

The money spent represents almost four-fifths of the revenues earned from the tickets the radar guns are issuing, records obtained under the Freedom of Information Act show.

The investigative arm of the District of Columbia’s finance office is probing the city’s multimillion dollar credit card program, a few months after the federal government audit blasted the District’s chaotic procurement process, a top official acknowledged Wednesday.

D.C. officials spent at least $17.4 million on their government-issued credit cards between 2005 and 2007, documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act show.

Fifty-four D.C. Public Schools employees were paid $300,000 to drive their cars in the past three years, but school officials are hard-pressed to explain why those employees got the money.

Records obtained under the Freedom of Information Act show employees from midlevel staffers to top executives being paid on seemingly random scales, with large spikes in payments.

Need help writing a Freedom of Information Act request to a D.C. government agency? Click this link, select District of Columbia in the drop-down menu, and click State.