We’ve reached another Friday, D.C., but if those light flurries that accompanied you on your way into work this morning gave you visions of a leisurely Saturday snowball fight, you’ll likely end up disappointed. Very little accumulation is expected from these flakes, and the weekend will see temperatures back in the upper 40s, with a possibility of some light rain on Saturday morning, according to CapitalWeather.com. If this update doesn’t satisfy your weather nerd urges, head over to the front page of the Post’s Metro section, where Lena H. Sun breaks down the story points of this year’s edition of “Crap Snow Removal Grandstanding: When No One Takes Responsibility and Everyone is to Blame, it Must be Winter in Washington”.

Silver Spring, Boom: Folks in downtown Silver Spring were startled by the sound of an explosion Thursday evening, writes the Examiner. Police detonated what turned out to be a harmless briefcase found on Ellsworth Drive between Fenton Street and Georgia Avenue. The City Place shopping mall was evacuated for several hours while authorities investigated the suspicious package, which was discovered when a security guard watching a surveillance feed spotted a man leaving the suitcase on the sidewalk.

Traffic Tickets Cost Everybody: A new report from the D.C. Inspector General shows that the much-maligned D.C. Office of Contracting and Procurement overpaid on a contract awarded to the company that processes the city’s traffic tickets by nearly $17 million. Not only did the office give the contract to ACS State and Local Solutions without soliciting enough competitive bids, it also failed to get the required approval of the D.C. Council beforehand.

Briefly Noted: Two people shot and killed in Prince George’s County … Northwest Branch Trail to get lighting … High rise fire in Bethesda … Church awarded landmark status.

This Day in DCist: In 2006 we said hello to the new president of George Washington University, and in 2005 we got excited about D.C. Council members hanging out at hookah bars.

Photo by Matt Adams (smada77)

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