Good morning, D.C. Did you get caught in the big power outage last night? Pepco had a large failure that meant a loss of power to 1,700 customers in Adams Morgan and Columbia Heights. We hope all of you made good use of that time to tell ghost stories and/or get lucky by candlelight.

Miller Case to Be Reviewed: City Administrator Dan Tangherlini has announced he’s ordered a review of the Jeremy Miller case, calling both the response of EMS workers to the wrong address and the failure of the city to notify his next of kin inexcusable. The Post also dug up another similar case of a man who died at Howard University Hospital and was taken to the morgue, and it took two days of his daughter calling hospitals before she found out what had happened to him. Our tip for the weekend: try to avoid dying in the District.

Metro Wants More Police: The Examiner reports that Metro’s new transit police chief hopes to add 25 more police officers and three police sergeants in the hopes of pushing down a recent spike in crime in the system, and to improve Metro’s ability to handle special events.

Briefly Noted: Buildings evacuated over Bethesda gas leak … Former D.C. Madam escort an officer in the Navy … National Harbor to host Cirque du Soleil.

This Day in DCist: One year ago we found out a lot of our friends are apparently making more money than we are, and two years ago we thought CVS drug stores were pretty jerky for locking their condoms up.

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