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- Washington Blade staffers plan to put out some kind of issue of the newspaper on Friday, Paul Schwartzman reports in WaPo. He also notes that two prospective publishers offered earlier this year to buy the Blade. See Erik Wemple‘s reporting on the scorned potential Blade buyers for more on that.
- Looks like Ovie’s going to be back on the ice tonight, according to NHL.com.
- Prince George’s County police made a gruesome discovery this morning: they found a body in a trash compactor, WaPo reports, and are investigating.
- Back at City Desk, Jason Cherkis attempts to find out why the Metropolitan Police Department’s longtime spokesperson, Traci Hughes, is suddenly off the job. Hughes says “she was told that she was being laid off due to budget cuts.”
- WTOP’s Mark Segraves reports that George Rawlings was carrying a gun when he was shot and killed while trying to board a Metrobus on H Street NE last week. And just in case you were wondering, “it’s not the missing gun police say DeOnte [Rawlings] used to shoot at police more than two years ago.”
