- Montgomery County’s council voted to expand Accessory Dwelling Units in single-family home neighborhoods as a way to boost affordable housing. [WAMU]
- DDOT is looking at new ways to bring the deteriorating Palisades Trolley Trail back to life. [GGW]
- Dean & DeLuca is closing its Georgetown location as the luxury market chain struggles with major debt issues. [Eater]
- Police are looking into a construction accident that killed a boy and injured a man on Tuesday in McLean. [WJLA]
- The scorching temperatures that hit the Washington area turned the Potomac River into a lukewarm jacuzzi. [Post]
- One of the young victims of D.C.’s recent wave of gun violence wrote a telling poem before he was shot to death. [Post]
- Several rats were filmed scrambling over food containers at Moby Dick House of Kabob in Georgetown. [Fox5]
- President Trump went on an angry tweeting spree hours ahead of Robert Mueller’s testimony before congress. [Hill]
- Police charged a Virginia tow truck driver for trying to haul off a vehicle with a family inside of it. [WTOP]
- Check out some of the art you’ll find across the Purple Line’s 21 stations when it reportedly opens in 2022. [Washingtonian]
- The University of Maryland is canceling classes at its College Park campus to make way for its football team’s first Friday night game in the Big Ten. [WTOP]
- For those who don’t mind the heat and mosquitoes, here are some ideal spots to camp out around D.C. this summer. [Washingtonian]
- N Street Village is hosting a Christmas in July fundraiser on Thursday for the District’s homeless and low-income women. [Popville]
- ICYMI: Local officials announced that D.C.’s forthcoming first elevated park got a $5 million donation from utility company Exelon.
- ICYMI: The driver who struck and killed a longtime D.C. bike activist pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter.
- This day in DCist: The National Arboretum hosted the annual International Tree Climbing Championship.
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