Schools Could Lose Federal Funding: An internal D.C. Public Schools report has found that officials diverted funds from a vocational education grant and put it toward school building maintenance and construction, an act which constitutes a “direct violation” of federal law which could lead D.C. Schools to lose their federal funding. The total findings of this recent audit, which appear in a ‘High Risk memo,’ also shed light on how school officials have been guilty of bad accounting and payroll practices and failing to conduct supply inventories for years at a time.

Police Seek Burglar Who Didn’t Wear Pants: A suspect is sought by police in an attempted bank burglary in which a man entered the offices through the ceiling wearing only boxer shorts and a white blazer. Police described the suspect as being about 30 years old and very skinny, with dreadlocks. Was this a brilliant criminal mind at work, believing anyone who happened upon him would be distracted by the fact that he was wearing no pants? Or was he just a little hot, and trying to get comfortable?

Briefly Noted: Virginia likely to face a $1.2 billion budget shortfall … Shocking acquittal for 2002 bus shootings … Two strange shootings overnight in Northeast … Woman arrested after videotaping just a few seconds of Transformers in a movie theater.

This Day in DCist: In 2006 we played the world’s tiniest violin for senators who have to deal with crowded elevators, and in 2005 we learned that Butterstick was a boy.

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