- Advocates in Arlington are pressuring Amazon to add protected bike lanes to its HQ2 plans to offset a projected increase in traffic. [ARLnow]
- Real estate reports say the median value of home sales in the District reached new heights in July. [Curbed]
- Local recovery centers are finally opening to help victims of last month’s historic flooding in the D.C. area. [WJLA]
- A bus that crashed more than week ago in Arlington is still sticking out of a building at the scene. [WJLA]
- Woodley Park boutique Via Gypset appears to have permanently closed. [Popville]
- The widows of two Virginia troopers who died in a helicopter crash during a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville are filing lawsuits against the state. [WJLA]
- State standardized test scores revealed a widening achievement gap across racial groups in Virginia schools. [Post]
- Here’s a guide to Baltimore’s bustling restaurant scene for your next road trip to Charm City. [Eater]
- A new mural in Southeast D.C. honors the lives of teens who were killed in gun violence during the 2017-2018 school year. [Post]
- Some mind-blowing stats on the Arlington man who recently ran around the entire length of the Beltway. [Washingtonian]
- Fairfax County police is training five adorable dogs to become service companions and respond to particularly stressful incidents. [WTOP]
- A Prince George’s County police officer shot one of two dogs that had attacked a construction worker. [Post]
- Grassroots groups are fighting to ensure neighborhoods east of the Anacostia River have access to fresh and affordable food. [GGW]
- A Virginia man pleaded guilty in a fraud scheme to provide Maryland drivers licenses to people who couldn’t legally obtain them. [WTOP]
- ICYMI: Federal and city regulators may have to come up with new standards for E. coli levels in D.C. waterways after a U.S. District court threw the old ones out.
- ICYMI: A pair of volunteer scientists found four nearly extinct orchids in Virginia.
- This day in DCist: Environmental scientists were looking for jellyfish that mysteriously went missing from Maryland waters.
