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• Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin will accept the GOP nomination for Vice President tonight at about 9:30 p.m. Central (so 10:30 Eastern time). We’re guessing Peggy Noonan and Mike Murphy won’t be the ones to break down her speech on MSNBC afterward. [Huffington Post]
• Democratic Vice Presidential nominee Sen. Joe Biden will be at George Mason University tomorrow to talk to voters about the economy. Open to the public and free, but reserve a ticket through the campaign before you go. [AP via WTOP]
• More local Hanna predictions! Ballpark forecast is now “sustained winds at 25-35 mph with occasional gusts to 55-65 mph.” So yeah, don’t plan any romantic evening strolls for Saturday. [Capital Weather Gang]
• Jerkface(s) of the Day Award: Everyone involved in the theft and subsequent destruction of a motorized wheelchair belonging to a woman with cerebral palsy in Cumberland, Md. First, two pre-teen girls stole the chair and took it for a joyride. Later, some unidentified man was seen riding around in it, until 23-year-old Wiliam J. White successfully offered that man a pack of cigarettes for it. White then sold the wheelchair to a friend for $165, and then later, when he learned through media reports that the wheelchair had been stolen, reportedly took the chair back and dumped it in a ditch, rendering it non-functional. Nice job, the lot of you. [Cumberland Times News]
• One proposal for more transit connectivity in Greenbelt. [Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space]
• Georgetown University student Terrance Davis is missing and presumed dead in South Africa following an accident. [The Hoya]
• Drivers are still being urged to avoid I-95 near Route 175 in the Jessup area of Howard County, after a tractor-trailer flipped and crashed there this afternoon. [NBC4]