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The restaurant industry is not too happy with a D.C. plan that would crack down on businesses that sell alcohol to minors. “Under new guidelines the D.C. Alcoholic Beverage Control Board hopes to implement, a first offense of failing to ask minors for proof of age would be classified as an ‘egregious’ violation…The board’s decision to press ahead with the changes had blindsided RAMW.” [Examiner]

A 67-year-old Michael Petrina Jr., of Arlington won the AARP National Spelling Bee again. “Wyoming AARP spokeswoman Joanne Mai says the retired attorney won by correctly spelling the word ‘rhizoctonia,’ a type of imperfect fungi.” [WJLA]

A Virginia man who was aboard on Lufthansa plane that clipped another one last Friday at Dulles Airport was also on a plane that got stuck on soft spot at the Reagan National Airport during the heat wave a few weeks ago. “A rough calculation suggests that, based on 10 million airline operations a year, the chances of being on both flights might be less than one in a billion.” [The Post]

Nationals defeated the “sloppy” Diamondbacks again last night 6-5. [AP]