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The Sunday Morning Post

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Good morning, Washington. Today, several Washingtonians will participate in the Washington Post's annual Scavenger Hunt, though it's unclear what kind of bonus, if any, hunters will receive for grabbing a glimpse of Denzel Washington or Ryan Reynolds.

>> The Wegmans is open! (Okay, in Frederick, but still.) The grocer, who recently held discussions with a D.C. government consortium to move to the soon-to-be city-owned Walter Reed campus, opened a new 130,000-square-foot supermarket -- including an ice cream shop and a vegetable market -- in the Maryland suburban town this morning to over 20,000 new customers, creating traffic concerns around the area. Those wondering about the validity of the Wegmans/Walter Reed proposal will certainly ask whether we could imagine 20,000 people in vehicles clogging Georgia Avenue and 16th Street on a Sunday morning.

>> The bus company that owned the vehicle which overturned on Interstate 95 in Virginia last week, killing four and injuring dozens of others, has had its license revoked by the Department of Transportation after trying to continue service by using different names (108 Tours and 108 Bus) and repainting its buses after the crash. The driver in that fatal crash, Kin Yiu Cheung, will be arraigned on four charges of involuntary manslaughter this Wednesday -- Cheung was overheard saying he was tired while talking on a cell phone before the crash. (Just pile all of this onto the "unreassuring discoveries" pile.)

>> Speaking of suburban traffic, Falls Church could be a gridlocked nightmare today -- that's because the only voting site for a runoff in the Peruvian presidential election on the East Coast of the U.S. is located inside Falls Church High School on Leesburg Pike. Thousands of Peruvians are expected to descend on the site, which, fortunately, is at least located close to the West Falls Church Metro station.

>> The intersex bass are back! As Potomac Conservancy President Hedrick Belin tells WTOP: "clearly, the fact that the male bass have eggs is telling us something's wrong with our water."

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  • parigote

    I know it's too late to make a difference for today, but for future reference, Falls Church High School is not located on Leesburg Pike. It's on Jaguar Trail and it's a Fairfax County school.  Falls Church City's only high school is George Mason High School and it is on Leesburg Pike.

  • DonKeysHoTea

    intersex bass sounds kinky- now if they were dancing at the jefferson memorial...GRR
    and if you're tired of driving, just text someone. can't overhear that.duh.

  • Guest

    "...after trying to continue service by using different names (108 Tours and 108 Bus) and repainting its buses after the crash..."

    Wow! That takes balls; doesn't it ValuJet?

  • Go back to Moscow, comrade! The only people they're taking advantage of are customers who don't read the 80-page user agreement that clearly states that no insurance claim they make will be paid.

  • Guest

    "20,000 people in vehicles"

    I assume by "vehicle" you mean CaBi bicycle.

  • Why isn't there a law against sleep deprived driving of a bus with a revoked license while cellphoning? I blame your friend Obama. You never had these kinds of accidents when Dick Cheney was President. And WTF is up with the weather lately? Chalk another one up for communism.

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