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Good morning, Washington. Food news you can use: beloved H Street vendor of happiness in a styrofoam box, Horace and Dickies, will reportedly expand to an as-yet-unknown location somewhere in Northwest D.C. Anyone who has ever had the pleasure of stuffing their face with a Horace and Dickies fish filet, fried chicken or crab cakes platter will know that this is a very good thing. Let the speculation as to the whereabouts of the new location begin!

Pentagon Metro Station Closed This Morning: The Pentagon Metro station was closed for about an hour this morning due to an investigation into a suspicious package. NBCWashington reports that a package with blinking lights was found in a garbage can inside the station and attracted the attention of law enforcement — trains were still running through the station, but are not stopping. The station has just reopened; turns out the “package” was a Christmas ornament.

Kaya Henderson To Temporarily Stay On As Chancellor: Interim D.C. Public Schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson will have about six months to prove to Vince Gray that she’s the right woman for the job — Henderson will remain in the post until June 30, according to the Examiner. Plenty of candor from the interim Chancellor about the arrangement — the report notes that Henderson was concerned that the city could be a “ghost town” after Mayor Adrian Fenty’s defeat, and taking the interim job was “not something [she] wanted to do.” Henderson also reveals that we shouldn’t expect Rhee-type leadership over the next six months: “Rhee had to come in and break some china,” she told Lisa Gartner. “We’re tired of breaking china.”

Metro Opening Up GM Search: WTOP’s Adam Tuss reports that Metro isn’t necessarily looking to hire a general manager with a background in transit. Recently, the Greater Washington Board of Trade and Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments suggested that Metro’s general manager act more like a CEO than a transit director, and the agency appears to be taking that suggestion in stride. A list of “three or four” finalists could be delivered to Metro’s board of directors as early as the end of this month. Two things which the new GM will probably want to look at: filling 214 bus driver, train operator and station manager openings and making sure that Metro’s engineers are properly licensed.

WaPo May Be Addicted to Facebook: The Washington Post unveils its third Facebook-related story in three days, an interesting tale from Marc Fisher about a burglar who broke into his home and felt compelled to take a photograph of himself flashing some stolen cash and post it to his son’s Facebook account. We have to agree with the assessment of the police officer working the case — “I’ve seen a lot, but this is the most stupid criminal I’ve ever seen” — though Fisher ably details the frustration with burglaries: police rarely push too hard on them because penalties are usually light. Fisher notes that Facebook has apparently traced the movement of his son’s stolen computer and are awaiting a subpoena from the police for that information — which sure is handy for authorities, but also serves as a reminder of just how much information Facebook has its fingers in.

Briefly Noted: Senate’s omnibus appropriation bill would cut D.C. funding by $11 million…Germantown bank robbed via drive-thru…Pedestrian struck on 7100 block of Georgia Avenue NW…Did you notice that the Lincoln Memorial has disappeared from the back of the penny?

This Day in DCist: Following a second vote, the D.C. Council officially passed historic legislation legalizing same-sex marriage in the District; we analyzed what the law meant for District autonomy.