Photo by John Griffiths.
- A tractor-trailer carrying trash overturned on I-495 in Maryland this morning, spilling garbage onto a car. [NBC4]
- The National Transportation Safety Board thinks WMATA is “very capable to do their own investigation” of the Red Line tunnel death. [WAMU]
- Ex-boxer and at-risk youth mentor Keely Thompson, “who diverted thousands of dollars in government grants to fund his gambling habit,” will be sentenced today and may face “substantial” jail time. [Post]
- Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), Mayor Vincent Gray, Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton and Councilmembers will speak at the Capitol today to call on Congress to “free D.C.’s budget.” [Release]
- Restaurants are starting to feel the crunch from the shutdown. [Eater]
- So is the tourism industry. [WJLA]
- Public art in D.C., mapped. [Curbed]
- NFL commissioner Roger Goodell on the Washington football team name: “Whenever you have a situation like this, you have to listen. And that’s what I suggested – that we have to listen…and do what’s right.” [WJLA]
- “GET OFF MY LAWN!!” [Reddit]
- This Day in DCist: A teacher wasn’t arrested or charged for covering anti-Muslim ads in the Metro with Post-Its.
