Go Home Already: Crime, Boy, I Don't Know
- Don't miss Mike DeBonis's liveblog of today's D.C. Council crime bill debate! All the exclamation points you could ever want, and more! [City Desk]
- For a less exalted assessment of the proceedings, try Tim Craig. The bottom line: Jack Evans lost his bid to enact so-called "civil gang injunctions," while Phil Mendelson's more conservative emergency crime bill, which focuses on stiffer penalties for certain gun crimes, committing crimes with stolen cars, and chronic offenders, passed, and now goes into effect for 90 days of summer. Oh yeah, and no curfew. [WaPo]
- Folks in Shaw and LeDroit Park suffered a 6-8 hour blackout last night. [In Shaw]
- There was a fatal shooting in the 200 block of Newcomb Street SE early Sunday morning. [Congress Heights on the Rise]
- Police are investigating after two bodies were found behind a church in Hyattsville today. [NBC4]
- A funeral has been set for slain Holocaust Museum security guard Stephen T. Johns for Friday at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Southeast. [AP via WTOP]
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