Elliot C. Williams
- A worker with D.C.’s Child and Family Services Agency pulled the wrong 8-year-old student from Harriet Tubman Elementary, leading to an hour-long search. [WCP]
- The Entertainment and Sports Arena has its first major sponsor (but still doesn’t have a naming rights deal). [WBJ, DCist]
- The rom-com-esque love story of the Timber Pizza and Call Your Mother co-owners. [Post]
- Police are searching for two suspects who stole an SUV at gunpoint at MGM National Harbor’s parking garage. [NBC4]
- Virginia Democrats have pushed through hundreds of bills to make good on their promise of enacting a liberal agenda. [Post]
- How did State Department Official Matthew Gebert, a white nationalist, fly under the radar so easily? [Vanity Fair]
- A 74-year-old amateur historian stole a slave auction plaque in Charlottesville, but not for the reason you’d expect. [Post]
- D.C. firefighters reported a fire alarm at the National Zoo’s elephant house. Luckily, it was just steam, they say. [Twitter]
- The Maryland Senate has voted to create a statewide ban on releasing balloons into the sky. [NBC4]
- Ben’s Chili Bowl is opening a location inside the food hall of Baltimore’s Horseshoe Casino next month. [WTOP]
- Marijuana decriminalization moves forward in Virginia. [WAMU]
- Adams Morgan hot spot Lucky Buns has expanded to Union Market. [Eater]
- ICYMI: Despite Republican obstacles, D.C. statehood is headed to the House floor.
- ICYMI: The artist behind that super lifelike Abe bust at the Lincoln Theatre just won an Oscar.
- This Day in DCist: Bowser announces initiative to help families find homes, pledging to end family homelessness in D.C. by 2018.
