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- Housing Complex reports that the Room & Board deal for the much-debated 14th & T location fell through due to financing problems with their bank.
- Washington Business Journal brings grim word that the Washington Post Co.’s profits dropped 77 percent during the fourth quarter. Yikes.
- Also from the Business Journal, recap of D.C. CFO Natwar Gandhi’s presser today: “Any way you look at it, things are really bad,” Gandhi said. Did we say yikes?
- A woman and her dog who jumped from a third story window to escape a fire in Southeast on Monday are both fighting for their lives, reports the AP.
- Hamil Harris has word that Kim Dickens, the woman who donated her kidney to Marion Barry, has been discharged from Howard University Hospital. Also, a Barry spokesperson said the former mayor is now likely to remain at Howard for several more days.
- A Silver Spring man who shined a laser pointer at a news helicopter was arrested this morning, reports WaPo. To wit: “Officers responded to the home of Gary Wort, 57, at about 6:42 a.m. They found him holding the laser that he shined at the passing helicopter because it annoyed him, police said; he then shined it in an officer’s face.”
