- 17 people, many of them kindergartners on their way to a field trip at the National Zoo, were injured when a bus overturned in Queen Anne’s County.
- At-Large D.C. Councilmember Phil Mendelson wants to spend $100,000 on a six-month study which would definitively determine precisely how many police officers the city needs; in turn, fellow At-Large Councilmember David Catania wants to know why Mendelson helped kill a similar effort he proposed last week that wouldn’t have cost $100,000.
- The father of a student at Sidwell Friends Academy is suing the school for ten million dollars after he and his daughter suffered “severe emotional distress” when the school did “nothing to stop” a staff psychologist to carry on an affair with his wife. (Of note: the psychologist, James Huntington, taught sex ed to sixth graders when Malia Obama, who attends the school, was in that grade.)
- Eight more people were arrested yesterday while protesting the District’s lack of voting rights and budget autonomy.
- Twice over the past month, Metrorail operators have run red lights at the Brentwood Rail Yard — fortunately, no one was hurt and no damage was caused in those incidents.
- Stephen Strasburg “feels great” and will likely throw off a pitching mound again soon.
- Alan Suderman waves farewell to Sekou Biddle; Biddle tells the City Paper reporter that he has no regrets, hasn’t ruled out a return to politics, and is feeling bitter about the way he was treated by the media — pretty standard stuff, really. (Meanwhile, Vince Orange has already taken over Biddle’s office.)
- Wale’s a politico” “They love you // then they hate you // go and ask Fenty.”
- Interesting story by Petula Dvorak on one of the city’s oldest bike messengers, who is retiring at the age of 61.
- The National Zoo’s got some new giant clams.
- Tonight, on Wilson Building 20004: the social studies class gossips after Vince and Linda’s relationship is outed by the local newspaper.
- The District now has wheelchair-accessible cabs.
- Wait, so the guy who’s behind all that May 21 mumbo jumbo also predicted that the world would end in September 1994? How many guesses do you get?
Photo by LaTur.
