Colleen Grablick
- Virginia crews are starting to salt roads ahead of this weekend’s storm, hoping to avoid another I-95 disaster. [WJLA]
- A D.C. man was acquitted of first-degree murder in the 2019 shooting of 11-year-old Karon Brown. [Post]
- D.C. statehood activists will hold an annual Peace Walk in Ward 8 on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. [Informer]
- A driver is critically injured after crashing into a Georgetown storefront yesterday. [NBC 4]
- A teenager was found guilty of sexually assaulting two classmates at two different Loudoun County schools. [AP]
- Virginia’s Department of Corrections has temporarily suspended in-person visits due to a surge in COVID-19 cases. [WRIC]
- Chef Howsoon “H.O.” Cham is opening an American restaurant with a “West African accent” in downtown D.C. this Saturday. [Washingtonian]
- Several families were displaced in a large fire in Gaithersburg. [WTOP]
- Today is the last calm day before wind and snow head our way this weekend. [CWG]
- ICYMI: National Republicans’ opposition to D.C.’s vaccine mandate for businesses has escalated to Nazi comparisons.
- ICYMI: Prince George’s County schools will hand out at-home test kits for weekly student testing this month.
- This Day in DCist: Someone was covering up the Don’s Johns port-a-potty signs on the National Mall.
