- Prince George’s County police announced today that the January 7 death of a 51-year-old woman in Capitol Heights has been ruled a homicide — the county’s 13th of the year.
- Borderstan chats with White House correspondent Julie Mason, who says of the neighborhood: “I cannot believe how it has transformed from hot-tranny-pusherland into New Clarendon.”
- Washington Post Redskins beat writer Jason Reid will be taking over Michael Wilbon’s old column slot.
- Drama, drama galore at Georgetown’s Hardy Middle School.
- ARLnow notes that there’s been a serious uptick in the number of auto thefts in Arlington County over the last week.
- D.C. police say that a man and his pregnant girlfriend were run down by the man’s jealous ex-lover along the 200 block of New York Avenue NW on January 6. WUSA9 reports that before she ran the pair over, 42-year-old Cynthia Duckett threatened that she would “cut the baby out of that bitch.”
- Outgoing City Administrator Neil Albert will be the guest of honor at an lengthy going-away party tonight at the Harman Center for the Arts. The three-and-a-half hour event is scheduled to last “more than two hours for every year he held the job,” observes Freeman Klopott.
- Renew Shaw not only has a new look, but has also created this handy and comprehensive list of real estate development around the neighborhood.
- Greater Greater Washington suggests three-letter abbreviations for Metro stations.
- HBO will film a pilot for a show set near the White House…in Baltimore.
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