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- “D.C. United is in negotiations with Events DC [which operates RFK] for a new short-term lease at RFK Stadium, with hopes to have discussions resolved soon.” [Soccer Insider]
- A freight train derailed in College Park this afternoon, causing a large diesel fuel leak. [WUSA9]
- Over the past week, three people have attempted to kill themselves on Metro property — and each has survived. [Examiner]
- Want to plot trips between Capital Bikeshare stations in Google Maps? Voila! [Google Maps]
- Heritage India is sorry. [PoP]
- Virginia state police racked up over 12,000 arrests and citations on highways during the long Thanksgiving weekend. [Examiner]
- A D.C. paramedic has been placed on administrative leave, after a woman that the paramedic reportedly refused to accompany to the hospital later died. [WTOP]
- Nationals fans: are you ready — after last year’s Jayson Werth experience — for the team to splash the cash for a big-time free agent? Well, sources are reporting that the team really wants Prince Fielder, whose services will likely cost the team somewhere close to $200 million. They could use a first baseman, it seems. [Fox Sports/The Nats Blog/The Goessling Game]
- Own a home in Anacostia, Hillcrest, Capitol Hill Northeast, Chevy Chase, Penn Quarter, Shaw or Sheppard Park? Congratulations, you’re in the city’s “hottest” housing markets. [WBJ]
- On the whole, it sounds like a pretty good thing that there aren’t a lot of empty swatches of office space in the city — but not to the annual Artomatic festival, which is apparently having trouble finding a spot big enough for next summer’s event. [CapBiz]
- The District’s lead counsel in the case regarding the 2002 Pershing Park arrests has withdrawn from the case and resigned from the Office of the Attorney General, though she says the “decision to leave was unrelated to the Pershing Park case.” [Legal Times]
- There’s now been a fourth carjacking in Wheaton, as police remain baffled. [WAMU]
- The Kennedy Center has a new jazz adviser. [NYT]
- Police are investigating a fatal hit-and-run which took place on the Baltimore-Washington Parkway yesterday. [WaPo]
- No one has any idea who will be playing in the Military Bowl at RFK this December. [WaTimes]
- Newt Gingrich: not a fan of the District’s gun laws. (Duh?) [WaTimes]
- “For every Steve Jobs and every Warren Buffett, there’s an equal and opposite nitwit who spent 2011 devouring attention and contributing nothing to productive society.” [GQ]
- Former wife of former congressman says former rumors of the two having sex on the steps of the Capitol are bunk. [Reliable Source]
- Do you ride the 32, 36, 42, 43, 96, 97, A2, A42, B2, D8, N6, W2 and X8 Metrobuses? Your route might be changing soon. [WMATA]
- Inevitable: Bryan Adams, Ryan Adams playing gigs at the same D.C. venue on consecutive days.
- “The suspected streaker may have been taking advantage of yesterday’s mild November temperature.” [NBCWashington]
