• One more guilty plea in the Office of Tax and Revenue embezzlement case -- this brings the total to eight. Will accused mastermind Harriette Walters be forced to change her plea to guilty soon amid the mounds of evidence against her? [WaPo]
• An Alexandria salon is offering some fishy pedicures. Literally. You stick your feet in a tub full of fish that suck the dead skin cells off of your feet. Gross, or awesome? [Associated Press]
• The D.C. medical examiner's office has officially ruled that the deaths of the two men killed on the open top Nationals shuttle bus were accidents. [AP via WTOP]
• The Appletini is dead! Long live anything else to drink that doesn't taste like sugary garbage! [metrocurean]
• "There are fewer vacant houses on the block and more people around. There were at least two people I could have cried out to, who I knew were just feet away. There are fewer 'characters' roaming up and down the streets. There are more concerned and involved people. I hear fewer gun shots. As I walk around the neighborhood on my way to the metro, or to the store, over to a friends house, I don't feel as stressed or as wary as long ago." [In Shaw]
• The Greater Washington Board of Trade endorsed at-large D.C. Council challenger Patrick Mara in his campaign to unseat Carol Schwartz. Mara is the only non-incumbent to receive the endorsement of the trade board. [D.C. Wire]

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