- MPD didn’t forget to notify us all about 18 homicides, it’s just that the press releases didn’t get put on their website, or so reports Rend Smith. More on the year’s homicide count at Homicide Watch D.C.
- Don’t forget, tomorrow’s a holiday for most people, so there are some changes to the area’s transit schedules.
- More fallout from that sloppy Examiner article on the business people who “oppose” the 15th Street bike track — the owner of Lettie Gooch Boutique, Theresa Watts, has apparently requested that the paper make a retraction, claiming that the reporter covering the story “used a informal inquiry to speak with me (the owner who was not available) into an opportunity to take her comment that metered parking was more of a deterrent to our customers than bike lanes to a grossly published misquote stating that bike lanes was even more of a deterrent for shoppers.”
- 33-year-old D.C. resident Carlese Hall has been convicted on felony murder and arson charges after she stabbed her daughter in the chest and burned down their home while high on PCP in 2008.
- Bummed out that the snow missed D.C. last weekend? Take some solace in this post at Capital Weather Gang, which breaks down the biggest snowstorms in Washington history.
- Prince of Petworth reports that Komi is expanding into the lower level at 1509 17th Street NW.
- WMATA has gotten a $150 million grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation in order to help replace its 1000 Series Metrorail cars; Virginia, Maryland and the District will match the funding.
- Alexandria police are searching for a man who robbed a PNC Bank on the 1700 block of Diagonal Road on Monday afternoon.
- The Washington Post offers up its list of what’s in and what’s out as 2011 arrives, in case you feel like clicking on a few dozen links.
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