>> An elderly couple was bound and left for hours in their basement early today by an armed man who invaded their home in the 2300 block of 49th Street NW near the toney Palisades neighborhood. [WTOP]

>> Security surrounding Charles H. Flowers High School in Springdale was heavy this morning as students reported to school a day after gunmen wounded two classmates walking nearby, one critically, and a man believed to be a bystander. [WaPo]

>> Garden District is opening a second location. [bloomingdale (for now)]

>> Get your fill of recently-legalized absinthe — maybe even at a discount. [Metblogs]

>> Renderings of the future Rosslyn skyline. [DC Metrocentric]

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