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- Rhode Island real estate planner—whom Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe is one of dozens of investors— is being charged with defrauding insurers by using stolen identities of terminally ill people. [Post]
- A car reportedly crashed into Bohemian Caverns yesterday. [PoPville]
- Six local chefs entered, but only one can win: Here’s who won Dishcrawl’s Battledish D.C. competition over the weekend. [Dishcrawl]
- DCist contributor and furloughed federal employee Alan Zilberman’s Shutdown Diaries are getting really morbid, existential. [City Desk]
- Virginia’s strict abortion regulations are being challenged. [WAMU]
- Respect is due: Read this fascinating profile of The Dismemberment Plan. [WCP]
- Could water taxis be the next thing to come to D.C.? [Post]
- All inked up: Read former DCist editor Martin Austermuhle’s fascinating profile of a local tattoo artist who wants new tattoo regulations, but not the ones the city is proposing. [City Desk]
- “Strident,” “self-absorbed,” and “parochial” Eleanor Holmes Norton has a heated exchange with President Obama over D.C.’s budget constraints. [WJLA].
- This Day in DCist: A group of nice Christian folks bought Metro ads opposing those nasty anti-Muslim ads.
