Good morning, Washington. Today is my last day as your weekend editor. I have a new full-time job, and unfortunately I won’t have time for this awesome gig. I imagine you’ve always known what I only recently learned -- that this group of readers is made up of some of the brightest people in and around the District. more ›

Good morning, Washington. There’s quite a bit of gray in the forecast for the next few days -- meteorological and otherwise. Clouds will increase over the District with a chance of showers in the suburbs this afternoon, and this morning Mike Allen reports that the bipartisan deficit supercommittee will declare failure Monday. more ›

Good morning, Washington. U.S. Park Police have released the name of a man they want to speak with in connection with the gunshots reported near the White House Friday night. Investigators are trying to track down 21-year-old Oscar Ramiro Ortega. more ›

Arlington County would rather pay now, than pay more later. As part of the 100 Homes campaign, volunteers and county workers surveyed 153 homeless people in one week as part of an effort to identify the most vulnerable people on the street and place them in housing as soon as possible. more ›

Capital Bikeshare marches on with its expansion across the D.C.-area with today's expected approval to expand its presence in Arlington County. The plan, approved by The Arlington County Board, calls for 30 new stations and 190 bikes at the cost of $1.2 million in federal grant funds. The new stations are planned to be in place by next summer, just in time for biking weather. more ›

Good morning, Washington. For two D.C. area men, seemingly innocuous backyard delicacies turned out to be "death caps" and "destroying angels." Catering to dangerous culinary whims, the men grew extremely ill after they ate mushrooms growing on their properties, which had flourished after heavy rains around the region. more ›

During yesterday's one-year birthday party for Capital Bikeshare, Terry Bellamy, the director of the D.C. Department of Transportation, had big news -- 50 more stations and 500 more bikes will be added to the system in early 2012. more ›

Authorities in Arlington have cautiously announced that they may have apprehended a bank robber who has struck as many as six banks in recent months. more ›

Arlington County is getting more Bikeshare, and they're asking residents to help pick where new stations should go. more ›

Did somebody call for a doctor? Rumblings are afoot that Dr. Dremo's -- the much-loved home of donut beer, the Night of 101 Elvises and off-the-wall decor -- is again in the market for a new Arlington location. more ›

At a press conference held moments ago, the Federal Bureau of Investigation revealed that there were "no significant explosive materials" inside a suspicious vehicle found near the Pentagon this morning. more ›

This morning, police investigated and then detonated a suspicious package near a parking lot north of the Pentagon which has brought traffic to a halt around Arlington. An individual has been taken into custody in connection with the package. more ›

WMATA isn't the only transit agency having some serious service issues this morning -- Arlington Regional Transit (ART) bus service is being hit particularly hard by a labor protest. more ›

Good morning, D.C. Guess we didn't get raptured, huh. Looks like we'll be getting a taste of summer today with temperatures in the high 80s and a chance of thunderstorms later in the day. more ›

Did you believe that incessantly cranky neighbors were a breed found only inside the confines of the District of Columbia? Think again! more ›

Did you know that Jim Morrison once lived in Arlington? Yeah, neither did I, but the Lizard King once roamed the streets of Falls Church, according to this pretty funny story from Falls Church News-Press columnist Charlie Clark. more ›

First District Taco, the Arlington food truck, opened a retail location on Lee Highway in Arlington. Now, the owners of D.C.-based Sauca will also be opening a restaurant in Arlington, on Columbia Pike. more ›

This morning, DCist heard more complaints from District residents about yet another loud racket which woke them up a little earlier than they would have preferred. Fortunately, though, we didn't have to go on quite the same kind of wild goose chase to figure out what happened this time -- Arlington's alert system filled us in that, indeed, the booming noises were again blank cannon blasts, fired during a drill conducted by the Old Guard's Presidential Salute Battery. more ›

Oh, you better believe DCist is still on the case of the mysterious noise which woke the District this morning. (We've got stick-to-itiveness, what can I say.) Tamika Wright, a spokesperson at Fort Myer, tells DCist that the cannon blasts "weren't coming from" the base as we previously suspected, but instead were being fired at Arlington Cemetery as part of an installation. So we dialed up Arlington National Cemetery spokesperson Steve Satkowski, who tells DCist that there was indeed some blasts being fired at the Cemetery this morning. more ›

Our Fox Mulder-esque search for the truth about this morning's blasting continues! DCist was able to get in touch with Shannon Whalen-McDaniel, a spokesperson for Arlington County, regarding the possibility that the noise had originated from the work which is currently going on at the Rosslyn Metro station. more ›

On March 5, an enormous brawl broke out inside the Hyatt Regency Crystal City during the DMV Music Awards. The fights, which involved more than 20 people, forced every single available Arlington County police unit to the scene and the violence sent five people to the hospital. Now, an employee of the hotel is speaking out about the consequences of the violence, which ended up costing him an eye. more ›

When Artisphere opened in Rosslyn in October, it seemed like it was filling a niche for art in Arlington. Arlington's new cultural center has hosted a multitude of art shows, parties, performance art, theater, film, etc. However, it's not doing as well as hoped: it will likely fall 75 percent short of its expected revenue. more ›

After the good news that the Arlington's David M. Brown Planetarium received a $100,000 donation in December, we have news via Aviation Week that the county will keep and refurbish the planetarium. Arlington school superintendent Patrick Murphy announced in his annual budget request that he is dropping plans to close the planetarium. Along with the $100,000 donation, community organizers raised more than $286,000 in private donations in an effort to save the planetarium. more ›

It seems that Roberto Donna's shuttered Bebo Trattoria and Nick Cho's closed Murky Coffee weren't exactly the only Arlington restaurants that owe massive amounts in taxes because of the county's meal tax. ARLNow reports that Extra Virgin, Front Page, and Kora are among restaurants that owe upwards of $25,000 in meal taxes to Arlington County. more ›

Sheesh, what's going on in Virginia? Yesterday, a single squirrel was able to cut the power to hundreds of homes and several traffic lights in Vienna; today, 911 systems in both Fairfax and Arlington Counties are temporarily down. Email alerts received by readers in both jurisdictions state that both systems are "experiencing intermittent problems," and if you need to report an emergency in either county, you should call 703-741-3035 (Arlington) or 703-691-2233 (Fairfax). more ›

I know you're all excited about the dawning of a new Lunar New Year -- but as you usher in the Year of the Rabbit, if you could at least move the mass illegal fireworks display outdoors, that would really be great. Unfortunately, that little bit of common sense was lost on a group of merrymakers at the Eden Shopping Center in Falls Church. more ›

Good morning, D.C. It's a bit of a slow news Sunday, so I hope some of these more off-beat stories appease your need for your morning news fix. more ›

ARLnow.com reports that a white BMW exploded in the Penrose neighborhood of Arlington around 8:15 a.m. this morning. The vehicle was parked around several homes, but as ARLnow points out, there are a pair of large apartment high-rises and the headquarters for the Department of Defense's Defense Information Systems Agency is only a couple of blocks away from the explosion site. Police reportedly have a "person of interest" in custody; a search for additional explosives in the area found none. more ›

I know we may have declared the cupcake trend dead, but who is to argue with free food? Crumbs Bake Shop, the New York bakery that is opening a bunch of locations throughout the D.C. area, is celebrating its Arlington store opening with 1,000 free cupcakes. The new location, in Clarendon, opened December 30th. And they're giving away their large size cupcakes, which is approximately the size of your head. The store opened at 9 a.m. so head over fast if you want to enjoy a free treat. If you're too late, don't worry - buy a cupcake and you'll get a free cup of coffee. more ›

Arlington's David M. Brown Planetarium, whose attempts to raise $402,000 to avoid being closed down are frequently noted in our Look Up column, got some good New Year's news: they recently received a $100,000 donation. more ›