- Two separate female students at Georgetown reported men intruding into their dorm rooms inside LXR Hall over the weekend — in one incident, a woman was shaken awake, the other found her intruder in bed next to her. Police are still investigating; Georgetown’s unfortunately had a history with this kind of incident.
- There’s a battle brewing in Deanwood between residents and Uncle Lee’s Seafood and Carry-Out about a liquor license. Lydia DePillis provides the (mostly) balanced view, while Veronica Davis reps the residents’ side over at GGW.
- The Maryland House of Delegates finally got around to passing that “dogs can eat outside with their owners” law that we reported on a few weeks ago.
- Mike Isabella is giving away his recipe for pepperoni sauce.
- I know this story is more about the issue of giving someone just off “refresher training” the controls of a busy Metrorail train. But isn’t the more pertinent question about who needs nine years to rehab a dislocated ankle?
- Hey, early voting in the April 26 special election kicked off today at BOEE HQ. Starting today, you can vote 8:30 a.m. – 8:00 p.m., Monday through Saturday, 12:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. on Sunday, April 17 and 8:30 a.m. – 4:45 p.m. on Monday, April 25.
- Nurses at Washington Hospital Center, who went on strike back in March, are preparing to do so again.
- As expected, Farooque Ahmed pled guilty today of conspiring to blow up a Metro station in Virginia, and was sentenced to 23 years in prison.
- Marshall Brown’s ignorance of the definition of “niggardly” once led to the resignation of Mayor Anthony Williams’ top aides in 1999. (UPDATE: And now his latest misstep has gotten him fired.)
- The brief, yet interesting tale of the Monopoly legend from Montgomery County.
Photo by Sanjay Suchak.
