- Around 9,000 homes and businesses lost power in the District and nearby suburbs after a windy deluge of hail, rain and thunder on Tuesday evening. [Post]
- If you don’t know how to get your kids to school, you may want to try the “walking school bus.” [GGW]
- Bus riders will be relieved to hear that Metro is on track to reopen six Yellow and Blue Line stations next month. [Post]
- D.C. police say a man with a conceal carry pistol license shot and wounded someone he thought was going to rob him at a bus stop in Northeast. [Post]
- Students at George Mason University were sent into a panic on Tuesday by a false alert of an armed person on campus. [WJLA]
- City officials say a rowhouse where a fire killed a man and gravely injured a child had not been approved for rental. [Post]
- A former school nurse will spend 6 months in prison after being charged with sex crimes involving four Maryland high school students. [WTOP]
- A Fairfax County music teacher faces up to seven years in prison for soliciting a minor. [WTOP]
- Here’s an inside look at Dupont Circle’s new two-story Muncheez location. [Eater]
- Everything you need to know about dew point temperatures so you can better read the weather forecast. [WTOP]
- A Maryland investment adviser tried casting spells to ward off an investigation into her $20 million Ponzi scheme. [WTOP]
- Ron Clark was honored as a D.C. hero who helped people rid themselves of deadly drug addictions. [Post]
- ICYMI: Montgomery County is defending its policies after it did not hold an undocumented immigrant accused of rape for ICE.
- ICYMI: A new digital magazine called Summerhouse will cover D.C.’s “DIY and underground culture.”
- This day in DCist: This D.C. school changed its name to honor its first black principal.
