Good morning, Washington. The big Good Guys assault-by-fire trial came to a close yesterday, with the jury handing down a conviction on all counts against Vasile Graure. A little over a year ago, Graure tried to solve an argument with a bouncer at the Glover Park strip club by dousing him in gasoline and setting him on fire. The bouncer survived, barely, and now Graure is facing up to 30 years in prison for the seven convictions handed down yesterday. The Sexist has some good play by play coverage of the trial, if you want to catch up.

Board of Trustees Goes Forward with Tenleytown Library: If you’ve been following the seemingly intractable battle between the NIMBYs of Tenleytown, who fear any additional people or their vehicles moving in to the neighborhood, and the pro-density urbanists who have backed Mayor Fenty’s plan to install a mixed-use development above the planned Tenleytown replacement library, then this update from the Examiner is pretty shocking: apparently the D.C. Library’s board of trustees has decided to go ahead and just build the library without the mayor, and without the residential tower that Fenty had planned. Pretty amazing. The board has said it will do its best to allow for “future development” around the library as far as the plans go. This is by no means the last you’ll be hearing about this.

Briefly Noted: Attorney General Michael Mukasey collapses during speech, rushed to GWU Hospital … Maryland bank robbery suspect shot and killed by police … Rhee addresses school violence … Metro gets OK to seek new rail car design.

This Day in DCist: In 2007, some D.C. Council members started wondering aloud if District CFO Natwar Gandhi should resign, and in 2006, the Nats said goodbye to Alfonso Soriano.

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