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- SI.com says the Nationals offered Stephen Strasburg about $12.5 million. The deadline to make a deal is midnight tonight.
- Why.i.hate.dc wonders whether half a million dollars isn’t too much to spend for a dog park.
- Renew Shaw reports that Shiloh Baptist Church applied for a building license for its vacant property at 1533 9th Street NW. This is one of the properties the church has said it will renovate with proceeds from the sale of two of its other vacants.
- A 22-year-old former Montgomery College student is accused of making threats that led to an evacuation at the Rockville campus Monday morning.
- Police made an arrest in that Saks Fifth Avenue dress shoplifting/assault case: 20-year-old Jonathan Bradley was picked up during a routine traffic stop in Southeast on Thursday.