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>> OK, so Wal-Mart’s plan to open four stores by the end of 2012 didn’t exactly pan out, but the company is still on track to open three locations in 2013, The Washington Post reports. Two of the stores—on Capitol Hill and in Fort Totten—are part of mixed-use developments and will be more modern and compact than your usual Walmart. The third, on Georgia Avenue in Brightwood, is larger. Meanwhile, plans for fourth and fifth Walmart locations are shifting from more conventional store designs to something that can fit inside developments in Northeast D.C.

>> The head of the union representing Metropolitan Police Department officers says that in 2010, the union asked then-Councilmember Phil Mendelson to review allegations that the department was under-reporting sexual assault cases, The Washington Examiner reports. Mendelson didn’t, union chief Kristopher Baumann says, and a letter from Baumann to Mendelson about the subject surfaced as part of a recent Human Rights Watch report documenting problems with MPD’s investigations of sexual assault cases.

>> Thomas N. Faust, who took over the D.C. jail in 2011, is getting high marks from most of the usual critics for a person in his position, The Post reports. The head of the corrections officers’ union says Faust has been “completely transparent,” in his administration of the jail system, while he is encouraging the jail to work with prisoners as they are released.

Briefly Noted: Maryland doctor accused of videotaping dead patients … District’s sole all-male public school is closing … Low foreclosure rates in D.C. and Maryland, but sinking house prices … Ptacek vs. Uber.