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>> You may only have recently gotten your power back, but now Pepco is asking you to use it sparingly. WTOP reports that the troubled utility says ongoing power restoration efforts coupled with the high heat are stressing the local electrical grid, and is asking that customers not run every appliance in their house at the same time this weekend.

>> Prince George’s County new gun offender registry will be public, writes the Examiner. When the registry goes into effect, convicted gun offenders will have to put their names and addresses on it, and that information will be available to anyone who wants to see it. Police have said that the information won’t initially be placed online, though.

>> As D.C. continues to grow, city planners are becoming concerned with how to deal with what will soon be more competition for valuable on-street parking spots, reports the Post. The D.C. Council is considering legislation that would deny tenants of some new developments the right to get residential parking permits, and also debating whether to make the permits more expensive generally and redraw the city’s parking zones. Some residents and driving advocates worry that parking will become prohibitively expensive in the future, while urbanists say that the cost of using it should better reflect the cost of providing it.

Briefly Noted: Better record for the Nats means better fortunes for the Capitol Riverfront neighborhood … Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell may have to mediate between two wings of Republican Party … Police and suspect exchange gunfire in College Park … No special legislative session in Maryland to discuss gambling … Arlington National Cemetery also saw damage during storm … D.C. still going after nightclub owner whose case resulted in Supreme Court ruling on use of GPS tracking by police.

This Day in DCist: On this day in 2011, we learned that speed cameras make some people extra ragey and a new Virginia law allowed cyclists to roll through red lights. In 2010, some over-eager amateur pyrotechnicians set off fireworks in an enclosed space and a group of criminals went after…the gumball machine.