- The Council was busy this afternoon — both the city’s 2012 budget and Kwame Brown’s temporary assumption of the economic development chairmanship passed, though not without plenty of objection, on the dais and off. We’ll have more on both of these stories tomorrow, after we digest all the hullabaloo.
- The man who stands accused of killing American University professor Sue Marcum in October 2010 is actually taunting police from his hideout in Mexico.
- Capital Bikeshare will be making its way to Maryland, thanks to a federal grant that will be approved tomorrow.
- Metro says its escalators will get better next year. Sure they will.
- The District helped in an attempt to break the record for the world’s biggest swimming lesson.
- A Wheaton man was arrested of sleeping with and prostituting underage girls that he recruited while working at the Westfield Wheaton Mall.
- Our former fearless leader, Sommer Mathis, wonders whether it’s okay to have a D.C. flag tattoo if you’re not associated with the punk movement.
- Derogatory graffiti, including swastikas, was found at a Montgomery County High School.
- The densest part of D.C. is getting a three-story, stand alone restaurant.
- Bryce Harper might be a jerk, but man, he’s got some vertical leap.
- The Bethesda Lululemon which was the scene of a gruesome murder in March will reopen next week.
- That’s quite a bit of heroin you’re smuggling, sir.