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>> If you missed last night’s news, here it is: Kenyan McDuffie won the Ward 5 special election to fill the seat once held by disgraced former councilmember Harry Thomas, Jr. McDuffie crushed the competition, taking 45 percent of the vote. He’ll likely be sworn in towards the end of the month.

>> Yesterday Washington Archbishop Cardinal Donald Wuerl joined a growing list of Catholics that are criticizing Georgetown University for inviting Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius to speak at a graduation ceremony, reports the Post. Some Catholics complain that Sebelius, who helped author and pass President Obama’s health care reform and its provisions mandating access to birth control, should not be speak at a Catholic university.

>> More than 100 people rallied outside the Maryland State Capitol yesterday as part of a protest of a recent state court decision that found pit bulls to be “inherently dangerous” and increased the liability for those who own them, writes the Washington Times. Four bills have been introduced to roll back the court’s decision, though they won’t likely be dealt with during the current special legislative session.

>> Metro’s first Bike & Ride facility opened this week at the College Park Metro station, reports WAMU. The locked facility can hold up to 100 bikes; similar facilities are planned for the King Street and Vienna Metro stations within the next year.

Briefly Noted: Maryland on verge of passing tax hike … Record-sized snakehead fish caught in Potomac tributary … Doors on Red Line train opened while train was moving … Libertarian Party in Virginia files suit over ballot access.

This Day in DCist: On this day 2011, Jiffy Lube Live told concert-goers that tailgating was no longer allowed and the driver who killed an Adams Morgan pedestrian was sentenced to three years in prison.