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• Barack Obama picked Clinton Portis for his fantasy team.
• Hot news for Veronica Mars fans: Jason Dohring, who played Logan Echolls on the now canceled cult show, has been cast in the upcoming HBO series Washingtonienne, based on Jessica Cutler’s book.
• Looks like a second round of proposals will be solicited for redeveloping the Old Post Office Pavilion, since nothing ever really came of the previous effort.
• Madame Tussaud’s here in D.C. has cut its ticket prices again, this time down to $10 from $18, we can only guess after figuring out that no one in their right mind would pay that much to go there.
• First Tysons Mall officials apologized, and now it appears as though the fired Santa may have his job back.
• What a way to go. The AP says a Virginia Beach woman was strangled to death by her pet python.
• D.C. Health officials are looking for a teenager who may have been playing with a rabid raccoon on Oct. 12. Here’s hoping if they find him, a hospital will be able to give him the vaccine.