Good morning, Washington. We hope you had a relaxing weekend, and weren’t one of the people inconvenienced by the brief closing of a number of Metro stations on Sunday. The story goes that a contractor mistakenly spread commercial-grade rat poisoning in the middle of the day around several stations in D.C. and Maryland. When dozens of birds started dropping dead at the Greenbelt, Anacostia, Naylor Road and Branch Avenue stations on the Green line and the Rhode Island Avenue-Brentwood and Takoma stations on the Red line, an investigation quickly began that included the FBI and local hazardous-materials crews. All of the affected stations were reopened relatively quickly.

‘All Hands On Deck’ Didn’t Prevent Shootings: In the Post we find out that seven people, including four adults and three children, were shot in Northeast even while the MPD had all of their officers on duty during their second ‘All Hands on Deck’ weekend. Residents at the Edgewood Terrace complex said they had been aware of an argument between some young men living there and another group. Luckily, none of the victims sustained life-threatening injuries.

West Nile Infections Way Down in Region While West Nile virus has been scaring the crap out of the Washington region for at least five years, ever since we had a summer with about 100 human cases and 11 deaths. But now the disease has receded significantly here since then, even as it remains elsewhere in the United States. Only one human case has been reported this summer, in Virginia. Health experts credit the decrease to a well-coordinated response from local agencies that included raising public awareness about prevention and applying larvicide to key locations. Officials continue to ask residents to take precautions like wearing insect repellent when outside and removing standing water from around homes

Briefly Noted: Hit and run suspected in death of 84-year-old woman … Homes evacuated over carbon monoxide … Construction hurting bottom line on Restaurant Row.

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