>> Experts warn of lightning-strike injuries with iPods [AP via CNN.com]
>> “The District has awarded a contract for managing its troubled Medicaid transportation program to a St. Louis-area company that the Missouri governor’s office called ‘scurrilous’ after the company paid millions of dollars to resolve a fraud investigation.” [WashTimes]
>> “In the lingo of anti-smoking zealots, smoke flow from dwelling to dwelling is called “seepage” and for now, it seems, there’s nothing a renter can do about it, aside from buying an air filter and waiting for their chain-smoking neighbor to die from emphysema.” [City Desk]
>> Dow Industrial Average sees its biggest one-day percentage gain in nearly four years. [AP]
>> “Prince George’s County police have arrested an armed man who was barricaded today inside a Largo home with a three-year old girl.” [WaPo]
>> “Adrian Fenty aims to fix our troubled public schools, but when schools open next month he’ll have to confront a sad and persistent problem: Students will not have enough textbooks – thanks to former Superintendent Clifford Janey.” [Harry Jaffe-Examiner]
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