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- These are the best times to flee town this holiday weekend. [NBC 4]
- One person suffered minor injuries when two trains bumped each other in an Amtrak yard in Northeast. [NBC 4]
- Dance Place welcomes a new executive artistic director. [East City Art]
- JPMorgan Chase is donating $500,000 to a project that helps minority-owned businesses that struggle to find financing in D.C. [WBJ]
- Eastern Market Metro Park will get $4.5 million for renovations. [Hill is Home]
- Former D.C. mayor Anthony Williams is on the RFK Memorial committee. [WBJ]
- Three new charter schools approved for D.C., including an all-boys middle school and an adult education campus. [Post]
- Virginia sheriff’s office ordered to remove a decal displaying a Bible verse from patrol cars. [Post]
- The two teens who hung a noose at a Maryland middle school have been charged with hate crimes. [WTOP]
- Here’s what happened after some teens broke into a local radio host’s car in Northeast. [WPGC]
- Alexandria wants to start a Vision Zero plan. [WashCycle]
- Parking costs are changing again downtown. [WTOP]
- Has WAMU solved public radio’s diversity problem? [Washingtonian]
- ICYMI: Georgetown professor gets to know the hundreds of dolphins who call the Chesapeake Bay and Potomac River home.
- This Day In DCist: Free Slurpee Day went horribly awry for a Baltimore 7-Eleven.
