So This is the New Year Roundup

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Happy New Year, DCist readers! We'll be back on our regular schedule tomorrow, just as soon as our heads stop pounding. In the meantime, here's a quick look at the few local news stories from today.

• Two babies were born locally at 12:01 a.m.: one, a boy, at Washington Hospital Center and another, also a boy, at Shady Grove Adventist Hospital, reports WTOP.
• Three adults and two children died early this morning in a house fire in Brookland, reports the Post. The cause of the fire is under investigation, but authorities believe it began in the basement.
• The Examiner uses the slow news day to take the District to task for continuing to pay rent on the former Washington Star printing plant at 225 Virginia Ave. SE.
• Three of four $1 million winners from Virginia's New Year's Millionaire Raffle were sold locally, in Alexandria or Arlington.