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VIA THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER: D.C. officials showed off the prototype of a streetcar on Wednesday that they hope will run along 37 miles of trolley lines within the next decade. The public can view the 66-foot-long streetcar, which spent years in storage in the Czech Republic where it was made, through Saturday as the city […]

VIA THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER: Metro on Wednesday fired a bus driver who struck a pedestrian last month in Southeast D.C. The incident occurred on April 13, shortly before 8:50 p.m., as the W2 Route Metrobus was turning right from Irving Street onto Alabama Avenue, according to Metro. The pedestrian was taken to a hospital; the […]

VIA WTOP: D.C. Police are looking for a man who they say robbed a bank, and then dropped his wallet while running away. The robbery happened at a TD bank in the 1700 block of Connecticut Avenue in Northwest around 7:45 p.m. on April 29. Police say the suspect handed a teller a note, and […]

VIA THE WASHINGTON POST: The District, Maryland and Virginia are nearly doubling their funding of a safety oversight group that monitors Metro, plus bolstering and reorganizing its staffing, after a federal audit found major weaknesses in the organization. The little-known Tri-State Oversight Committee laid out the plans in a response due Tuesday to a scathing […]

VIA THE WASHINGTON POST: Clack. Clack. Clack. White jumps black. “Crown me, mister! Just crown me! You don’t have a move on the board.” “Put him down. I put him there for a reason, for a season.” “You talkin’ way, way, way much too much trash!” “This is checkers, man! This ain’t no damn chess!” […]

VIA THE WASHINGTON POST: Officials at the National Zoo announced their latest addition: a scimitar-horned oryx born April 9 at their conservation center in Front Royal, Va. “Because most of the species we work with are critically endangered or extinct in the wild, each offspring born here is a real treasure and a testament to […]

VIA THE WASHINGTON POST: The D.C. Council gave final approval to legalized medical marijuana today, but only after members agreed to make it easier for qualified patients to obtain larger quantities of the drug. The bill, which now goes to Mayor Adrian M. Fenty (D), originally restricted chronically ill patients with a doctors’ recommendation to […]

The award winning Kim Burrell has joined the already star studded cast of Judges on the hit show “Sunday Best.” According to Singersroom.com, tapped as this season’s contestant mentor, Burrell debuted on BET’s hit reality singing competition this past Sunday. As previously reported this season of “Sunday Best,” the third season overall, features judges Erica […]

VIA THE WASHINGTON POST: A third 18-year-old was charged Tuesday in the slaying of well-known D.C. principal Brian Betts. Deontra Q. Gray was charged with first-degree murder, armed robbery and conspiracy to commit armed robbery. According to charging documents, Gray “admitted that he was at Betts’s residence at the time of the murder.” Sharif Tau […]

VIA THE WASHINGTON POST: It’s five minutes to 7 on a wet March night, and, as I peek into classrooms while walking down the hall at the Dance Institute of Washington in Columbia Heights, I see several classes taking place at once. Girls in black leotards and pink tights hit plié after plié in Studio […]