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>> A hearty congratulations is due to the Baltimore Ravens, who held off the San Francisco 49ers 34-31 to win yesterday’s Super Bowl. We’ll have more on the big victory later on, including how some D.C. politicians responded.

>> Legislators in Montgomery County are working on a bill that would ban smoking on most county-owned property, reports WAMU. During a debate last week, a committee added bus shelters and bus stops to the places where smoking would no longer be allowed. At the same time, county-owned golf courses were taken off of the list of places where smoking would be verboten.

>> A Virginia Senate committee will consider a bill today that would force all sellers, not just licensed gun dealers, to obtain background checks of potential gun buyers, writes NBC4. The bill has failed in the past, but supporters hope that the Newtown massacre and recent polling showing that Virginians largely support closing the loophole will make it easier to pass this time around.

Briefly Noted: Metro mops station floors with special solution when there’s snow on the ground … Michelle Rhee wants testing, but doesn’t want testing to be the only thing … Georgetown chicken wing eatery sold up to 30,000 wings yesterday … Nine people arrested in connection with Shaw drug ring.

This Day in DCist: On this day in 2012, eight people were arrested as U.S. Park Police cleared out Occupy D.C. In 2011, Rosetta Stone hired Adrian Fenty and the Washington City Paper launched a legal defense fund to fend off a Dan Snyder lawsuit.