- An ANC chair and treasurer in Ward 8 misspent thousands of dollars in city money, per the D.C. Auditor. [WCP]
- Police continue their investigation into the shooting that injured seven people at a 2-year-old’s birthday party. [Post]
- A man who once lived in the illegal rental property where two people (including a 9-year-old boy) died in a fire says he’s grateful he and his family moved out before the tragedy. [NBC Washington]
- Oh, goody. [WTOP]
- Where to get a good hot dog. [Eater]
- There’s going to be a wine tasting at the National Zoo. [Curbed]
- The closed stations on the Blue and Yellow lines appear on track to reopen on time. [WBJ]
- “There seems to be a lot of tragedies every day. But this seems particularly vicious.” [Post]
- Governor Ralph Northam appears to have emerged from a blackface scandal relatively unscathed. [WTOP]
- A La Coop Coffee pop up is open on Kennedy Street in the Cheese Monster space. [Popville]
- Should you be deleting your old tweets? (Probably.) [Washingtonian]
- Watch out for rain tomorrow before a warmer weekend. [CWG]
- Baltimore Gas & Electric is investigating the cause of an explosion that utterly destroyed a Columbia, Md. shopping center. [Post]
- ICYMI: The Washington Spirit sold out Audi Field with a nearly 20K-person audience.
- ICYMI: The co-owner of the 9:30 Club and The Anthem is “stepping side” from his role after his arrest for soliciting prostitution.
- This Day in DCist: Jack Evans got blocked from Wikipedia for continuously trying to edit his own page (again).
Natalie Delgadillo