An argument in a Virginia liquor store escalated into blocked traffic on Columbia Pike as police reported a suspect attacked three officers, leaving them with non-life-threatening injuries.

A separate law that limits the number of taverns and nightclubs in Georgetown to six will remain in effect, though.

This post is brought to you by ABC’s new drama Red Widow: Organized crime is predominantly a men’s world, but there are some women whose penchant for violence, drug laundering and more that have made them infamous crime figures. Here are a few notable ones over the decades: STEPHANIE ST. CLAIR: The French-African immigrant ran a numbers bank in Harlem in the 1920s. By the 1930s St. Clair, known as “Queenie,” became so successful that…

Sponsored by ABC’s new drama Red Widow: Organized crime has always thrived on intimidation and brutal acts, but sometimes the violence is unspeakably gruesome. Here are some of the most notorious mob hits, from a gruesome payback to the stool pigeon who couldn’t fly: Al Capone had an alibi for the massacre THE ST. VALENTINE’S DAY MASSACRE: Considered the “most infamous of all gangland slayings in America,” seven men were lined up against a…

This post is brought to you by ABC’s new drama Red Widow: If there was any doubt that ladies could be fierce mobsters, one of the most notorious criminal minds of late is Lynne Strazzere, the “Bookie Mom”. Strazzere, a middle-aged soccer mom from Boston suburb Reading, was part of a major Massachusetts gambling and drug ring, the “Rossetti Criminal Organization.” The ring was penetrated by authorities in 2010, and 31 members including Strazzere were…

Mayor Vince Gray dined at Hank’s Oyster Bar in Dupont Circle yesterday, reports Borderstan, expressing support for the popular neighborhood restaurant mired in a particularly nasty regulatory fight over its outdoor space.

Over in academia, it’s finals time, but the receSs improv team over at George Washington University isn’t compromising their weekend, which will mark the group’s final show of 2007, over it. On their unofficial blog, The Colonialist, they’re offering up reasons why their peers shouldn’t either. In the past, receSs alums have gone on to pursue real-life comic gigs, including TJ Miller (now on the ABC show “Carpoolers”), Herschel Bleefeld (who landed a role in…

The Associated Press is reporting that a dark cherry red Peterbilt tanker truck hauling gasoline was stolen at gunpoint this morning in Baltimore. ABC News follows up with word that police believe it to be a straight-up robbery and not connected to terrorism in any way, but that the Joint Terrorism Task Forces from Washington and Baltimore are assisting local Police in the investigation as a precaution. The suspect was last seen driving the truck…

As it gets closer to Halloween for LAist, a contributer recollects her tale of staring down the serial killer, Richard Ramirez, otherwise known as the Night Stalker. Must think happy thoughts — okay, free organic chocolate chip cookies for Los Angeles — now that’s a happy thought. Other happy Los Angeles thoughts include an interview with Jack Kehler of The Big Lebowski (he was the Dude’s landlord), a beautiful and magical photographic moment in Venice…

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