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VIA WTOP: When it comes to you and your car, does the District want to keep you out? “To be honest, trying to squeeze as many cars as we try to squeeze into our city streets isn’t working,” says Gabe Klein, director of the D.C. Department of Transportation. The city simply wasn’t designed with the […]

VIA THE WASHINGTON POST: D.C. Mayor Adrian M. Fenty (D) spent more than two hours pressing the flesh and taking names this morning in as he took his one-on-one campaign skills to the heart of Dupont Circle. Greeting pedestrian commuters at the base of the Dupont Circle fountain, a relaxed Fenty reached out to nearly […]

VIA THE WASHINGTON POST: For 50 years, Southwest Washington was divided in half by a mall and office complex that withered with age. Like the freeway that isolates the neighborhood from downtown, Waterside Mall left its community without a center. Today the mall is gone, two gleaming glass office towers with a splashy ground-floor Safeway […]

VIA THE WASHINGTON POST: The D.C. Council is pushing to tighten regulation of pawnshops in the city and give residents a stronger voice in where they open, after a lengthy battle over plans to put a pawnshop in a Northwest Washington neighborhood. Pawnshop oversight legislation sponsored by council member Muriel Bowser (D-Ward 4) won unanimous […]

VIA THE WASHINGTON TIMES: D.C. Council Chairman Vincent C. Gray used school reform to kick off his run for mayor Saturday in downtown Washington, where an estimated 350 people intermittently chanted, “Send Fenty home!” Several current and former council members were in attendance, including at-large members Michael A. Brown and Phil Mendelson. Virginia Williams, mother […]

VIA WTOP: In six months, new cell phone rules will be in effect on the roads and everyone driving through Maryland should know them. You can use your hands to turn your cell phone on, to answer and hang up calls and to turn the power off. Outside of those activities you’re not allowed to […]

VIA THE GAZETTE: Missing Bowie State University student Katrice Hall of Lanham and her cousin, Shawnta Hall have been located unharmed, according to an e-mail sent to the campus community Friday afternoon. Bowie State campus police did not have the address of the cousin. Katrice’s mother, whose name has not been released, reported the cousins […]

VIA WUSA: A pregnant woman was transported to a local hospital Thursday night after being struck by a marked police cruiser driven by an off-duty Prince George’s County officer. According to the police report, the woman stepped in front of the off-duty officers marked cruiser wearing dark clothing, and she was not in a crosswalk. […]

VIA WTOP: D.C. Police have arrested at least two more adults in connection with last month’s drive-by shooting in Southeast that killed four people and left five others wounded. Police arrested two adults on Thursday afternoon. A third suspect is still being sought. The arrests come as the District Attorney’s General Office dropped all charges […]

VIA WJLA: Metro has fired a bus driver arrested early this month for allegedly displaying a knife during a dispute with another motorist in Southeast Washington. Dwayne Adamson had been a Metrobus driver for three years. Metro spokeswoman Lisa Farbstein says the driver had been on paid administrative leave since the April 2 incident and […]

VIA USA TODAY: Don’t buy your Terrell Owens Washington Football Team jersey just yet. Less than a day after Terrell Owens’ agent said the free agent WR wanted to play in Washington, Donovan McNabb said he’s not necessarily on board with the plan. McNabb told the Washington Post that an ESPN report that he was […]

VIA WUSA: An Accokeek family says its mentally challenged child was beaten by a teacher’s aide from Oxon Hill Middle School. “What makes this more sickening and unexcusable is that this attack happened to a 14-year-old mentally handicapped child with the mental capacity of a 6-year old,” says Natalie Williams, spokesperson for the family of […]