Good Friday morning to you, D.C. There’s more information out about the man Maryland State Police have arrested for making threats against Md. Gov. Martin O’Malley, Sen. Hillary Clinton, and Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.). The suspect is James Frost, 64, of the 100 block of Billingsgate Lane in Gaithersburg. Frost has been identified as a former lawyer for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, and allegedly sent letters identifying the three politicians as “political targets,” although to whom the letters were addressed and their actual contents have not yet been made public. There’s good reason to believe that Frost is mentally ill — his ex-wife appears to have divorced him due to his mental problems, and he’s also about to go to trial on separate “sexual touching charges” in September.

New UDC President Announces Big Changes: The new president of the University of the District of Columbia, Allen Sessoms, unveiled his plan for the school at a press conference yesterday. Among the changes he plans to make: moving the law school to a better facility, possibly adding a medical school, creating a four-year honors program, and, the thing that many UDC watchers have been suggesting for a long time, changing a big chunk of the existing school into a community college.

Greenbelt Man Pleads Guilty to 9 Fires: Jeremiah Christopher Jones, 26, pleaded guilty yesterday to setting nine fires at a Greenbelt apartment complex where he lived between March 25, 2007 and August 2, 2007. Jones faces a sentence of anywhere from five to 20 years.

Briefly Noted: Ford’s Theatre renovations are about two-thirds complete … Thurmont man pleads guilty to indecent exposure for naked photo incident …

This Day in DCist: In 2007 we took a closer look at the Samuel Gompers monument, and in 2005 we wondered what the city should do with a $300 million surplus.

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