Good morning D.C. Today marks the ninth anniversary of the terrorist attacks in Washington, New York and Pennsylvania; but for many, today crept up on us quietly, surreptitiously. Every year the 9/11 memorials and remembrances edge towards more solemn and subdued, and 9/11 turns from a vivid memory into an abstract event. But entering the penultimate year before the decade milestone, we start to prepare for when we reflect on how the world has changed in the past ten years. A decade of fear and vitriole, of more war than peace, of policies on how we live everyday, or exploration of the alien and ourselves. Needless to say, whatever year we mark, today we remember the lives lost and the tragedy that touched us all.

>> Unlike luck and disasters, standoffs do not come in trios. After this week’s pair of barricade incidents across the District, Hyattsville police found an auto shop to be empty after a nearly five-hour standoff, the Post reports. Reports of an armed man entering the shop drew police to the 4700 block of Crittenden Street early Friday morning, however, when an emergency services team secured the shop, they found no one.

>> D.C. Superior Court judge ruled Friday that a D.C. police interview of Ingmar Guandique, the man accused of killing Chandra Levy in 2001, may be used in the upcoming October trial, reports the Post. Lawyers were in court arguing over the admissibility of the post-arrest interview, which may have been obtained illegally. The hearing, in preparation for the trial, revealed new information about Guandique’s statements while in police custody.

>> According to WUSA9, the EPA has issued new restrictions on local sewage plant Blue Plains in order to reduce nitrogen pollution in the Chesapeake Bay. EPA show that the plant accounts for 3 percent of the nitrogen entering the bay, making it its top polluter. The new permit limits on the plant come on top of previously enacted regulation, which have shown to have benefited aquatic fauna in the Potomac River.