>> Vandals armed only with a U-shaped bicycle lock and a sense of irony managed to trap about 40 commuters on the Virginia Railway Express Monday near Woodbridge, when they locked the metal gates from the pedestrian bridge at the Rippon station. The gates, which the VRE removed Tuesday, were originally put there to keep vandals out of the station. [AP via NBC4]
>> Post columnist Courtland Milloy makes a compelling case for abolishing strict 5-year prison terms for offenders convicted of possessing only five grams of crack cocaine — plus he teaches us all how to make the stuff! [WaPo]
>> DCRA held a “crackdown” event for the media on shady used car dealers on Bladensburg Rd. NE, but the results do not impress the Washington City Paper. [City Desk]
>> The National Geographic Bee has its first female champion in over 16 years today, as Caitlin Snaring, an eighth grader from Redmond, Washington, correctly identified Hue as Vietnam’s imperial capital to win the title at the National Geographic Society headquarters here in D.C. Snaring is only the second girl to win the Bee since 1989.
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