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>> Eleanor Holmes Norton’s car — the same one she got into an accident in last weekend — costs taxpayers $552 per month. [WTTG]

>> Charles Brodsky, the former head of the city’s Alcohol Control Board who was accused of impersonating a police officer in May, was sentenced to community service. [Examiner]

>> D.C. United forward Charlie Davies — who suffered a lacerated bladder, fractured right tibia and femur, a fractured elbow, facial injuries, and bleeding on the brain after a car accident in 2009 — went back to visit the doctors at Washington Hospital Center who saved his life. (The hospital’s also looking to improve the real time safety of its patients.) [@charliedavies9/@dcunited/WaPo]

>> From education reporter Bill Turque: “Sousa Middle School principal Dwan Jordon, one of Michelle Rhee’s stars, resigns to become principal at Suitland High in PG.” [@bturque]

>> Gross: the cafeteria at Walter Reed Army Medical Center’s Mologne House — still in operation — was forced to close after inspectors found mouse droppings. [WTOP]

>> It looks like this might be the last year Washington will host the Solar Decathlon. [Housing Complex]

>> A former Falls Church elementary school teacher has pled guilty to producing and possessing 75,000 images of child pornography. [NBCWashington]

>> The $520 million Marriott Marquis at the Convention Center is one of the biggest hotel projects started in 2011. [WSJ]

>> Police are investigating a possible murder-suicide involving a mother and her 13-year-old son in Kensington. [WJLA]

>> The life of a parking enforcement agent is no picnic. [TBD On Foot]

>> The case for revisiting the Oklahoma Avenue Metro station. [Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space]

>> Washington-area unemployment was up in June, although it maintained one of the lowest regional rates in the country. [WBJ]

>> “Emily is a disorganized, limping blower that nevertheless has raised storm warnings in Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti and the Bahamas.” [StormWatch7]

>> The Knights of Columbus will take ownership of the financially troubled and rarely used Pope John Paul II Cultural Center in Northeast. [WaPo]

>> When someone says “gentrification,” your first thought might not be Old Town Alexandria, but a version of that process is happening there too. [WAMU]

>> The man who fell onto the tracks at Friendship Heights on Monday afternoon is now in critical condition. [@postmetrogirl]

>> Inaccessible sidewalks cause big problems for pedestrians in Takoma and Silver Spring. [GGW]

>> Attention criminals: the next three weekends sound like fine times to turn yourself in. [Congress Heights on the Rise]

>> Wagamama: now opening in early 2012! (I’ll believe it when I see it.) [The Internationalist]

>> Your work environment could always be worse. [Frederick News Post]

>> More bread, please. [WaPo]