Photo by Chris Rief aka Spodie Odie.

Howdy, Washington. You’ll need to pardon my tardiness — I’m still busy digesting today’s big news: the management shakeup at Metro which will see two top executives step down. From the looks of things, I was probably better off keeping my focus on that story. Your editor’s news feed is clogged with gruesome crime stories, a veritable buffet from which any network crime drama writer would devour. Sure, crime blips like this one about five youths stabbed at a fight in a Prince George’s County parking lot last night or this about a mother and son’s murder-for-hire plot are somewhat par for the course. But it’s not too often we see a story like this one from Herndon, in which a 34-year-old man strangled his wife. After alerting police in a note that he had killed the woman, authorities found her non-dismembered body stuffed into a suitcase. Eww.

In other, non-gory news:

>> Tom Sherwood provides this eyebrow-raising investigative report on whether or not the D.C. government has made a habit of dismissing traffic tickets for taxi drivers.

>> ICYMI: At-Large Councilmember Kwame Brown’s speeding ticket mea Twulpa, in three parts.

>> Friend of DCist Geoff Hatchard (that’s IMGoph to the rest of you) created this handy Google map of the new D4 Metrobus route, which runs from Franklin Park down K Street, and circles around Trinidad.