A piece of rigging failed, but no one was injured.

Mayor Vince Gray, other city officials, and D.C. United co-owner Jason Levien unveiled today a ambitious $300 million plan that, if executed successfully, would result in the soccer franchise having a new, 20,000-seat stadium at Buzzard Point in Southwest D.C.

District officials and D.C. United are scheduled to announce today a tentative plan that would result in the city’s 17-year-old professional soccer franchise finally having a stadium it can call its own.

A group of demonstrators affiliated with the Occupy D.C. movement are suing the Metropolitan Police Department and Bank of America over what they say were unlawful arrests during several days of protests outside a bank branch in downtown D.C.

The District stands to lose $48 million in property-tax revenue this year after more than 500 developments were overvalued by the city’s appraisers and had to be reassessed.

Amtrak is set to propose a $7 billion plan to overhaul and expand Union Station with the goal of tripling its passenger capacity and dedicating new tracks to high-speed service.

Sure, Tommy Wells (D-Ward 6) was recently demoted from his beloved perch as chair of the D.C. Council’s transportation committee. But he was given the parting gift of control over the District’s Office of Planning. And it appears as if one of the first things Wells is focusing his planning efforts on might be a new stadium for D.C. United.