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>> Mayor Fenty says he’s now rethinking charging taxpayers for his travels on the Obama campaign. [WTOP]

>> Metro General Manager John Catoe thinks the agency can’t afford to buy those 7000 series rail car after all. [Examiner]

>> A revised design for the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial got thumbs up all around today from the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts. [WaPo]

>> A Fairfax County woman was shot while walking with her young children in the 200 block of 51st Street NE in the District late Wednesday night. [WJLA]

>> Montgomery County Fire and Rescue units rescued a tree cutter from a tree in Silver Spring this afternoon. [NBC4]

>> “The Supreme Court did not rule today on the D.C. gun ban case, so next week is the week.” [Raw Fisher]