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Good morning, Washington. Here’s hoping you’re enjoying the day-after-Thanksgiving leftovers (or, at least, recovering nicely from your post-food coma hangover). We’ll be posting sparingly today, but here’s what’s making the local news this morning.

In Case You Have Somehow Missed The Blanket Media Coverage: It is Black Friday, and people are shopping for stuff, with a bunch of other people. In other breaking news, your DCist editor has no desire to be within 200 yards of a mall or a large department store today.

Police Standoff on Q Street NW: D.C. police surrounded a rowhouse on the 400 block of Q Street NW around 8 a.m. today after three armed suspects were reported to be inside. According to the Post, police barricaded off New Jersey Avenue between R and P Streets NW as they focused guns on the building and ordered the three to come out. No word on what forced the police into the dramatic action.

Third Guilty Plea In Betts Murder: Joel Johnson will be the third person to plead guilty in connection with the murder of popular Garnet-Patterson Middle School principal Brian Betts last April. Johnson, who will plead guilty to accessory after the fact in a felony murder, will face a maximum sentence of five years in prison. Alante Saunders and Sharif Tau Lancaster have already plead out to murder and robbery charges and will face 40 and 35 years in prison, respectively.

Briefly Noted: Woodson crushes Dunbar in Turkey Bowl, 44-12, to win third straight D.C. public high school football title…Vince Gray sure is taking his sweet time with the transition…Mike DeBonis wonders whether D.C. elections really need party politics…D.C. man wanted in connection to bank robbery…D.C. fish wholesaler fined for selling illegally harvested rockfish…Takoma Park cop, suspect exchange gunfire after man took hostage; no injuries were reported…Montgomery County police arrest six for public urination on Wednesday night.