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- Medical Examiner confirms that the death of 9:30 Club’s Josh Burdette was suicide. [Post]
- No butts about it: The NoVa Butt Slasher of 2011 is scheduled to be sentenced today. [Post]
- After a fire in the boiler room yesterday evening, Prince George’s Hospital Center is now just running on generator power. [WJLA]
- The death of a 19-year-old UVa student at Echostage last weekend might be related to the same bad molly that caused deaths in Boston and at the Electric Zoo festival in New York. [Post]
- United States Attorney’s Office is urging for hate crime charges on an attack on a drag queen in the 14th Street Manny & Olga’s in June. [Metro Weekly]
- A D.C. firefighter’s home was burglarized during his own funeral on Wednesday. [Fox5]
- A car somehow flipped over in this quiet Petworth neighborhood. [PoP]
- A paramedic who wrote a letter to the D.C. Council about the various problems in his department has been put on administrative leave. [Washingtonian, NBC4]
- This Day in DCist: The first death in the District linked to the West Nile Virus was recorded.