Here are the numbers to call for shelter information or to request transportation for someone in need.
According to the National Weather Service, D.C. can expect eight inches of rain and 70-mph gusts of wind over the next two days.
A brief, if very important update to this morning’s developments in Blacksburg: the alert that was sounded on the campus of Virginia Tech regarding reports of a person with a gun has now been lifted.
UPDATE: The alert has now been lifted. The latest here.
After two transgender individuals were involved in late night attacks along Dix Street NE, District police are warning residents that the crimes may represent a “potential emerging pattern.”
Today Mayor Fenty and DMV Director Lucinda Babers announced the launch of a new email notification service that reminds D.C. residents to renew their driver’s licenses and vehicle registrations online. To sign up for the service, visit the D.C. DMV web site, go to “Online Services”, and then click “Add/Update E-mail Address”. You’ll need to enter your driver’s license number, full name, SSN and DOB, and then activate your account via an email confirmation….
The Holiday season is in full swing in NYC, with holiday lights in Brooklyn, a giant snow globe in Bryan Park and Chanukah specials for ham. One citizen decided to go vigilante on annoying car alarms, a murder suspect used a fake Asian accent on the stand and a video of a man being beaten up by teenage girls on a subway shocked the city. And we interviewed soon-to-be-leaving-Gawker editor Choire Sicha, who said,…
With D.C.’s record standing at 2–2 in Kitchen Stadium – a win and a loss against Bobby Flay and Masaharu Morimoto each – Sunday night’s Thanksgiving-themed episode of Iron Chef America pitted Agraria’s head chef Ricky Moore against the Chairman’s newest Iron Chef, Michael Symon. From the beginning, the odds seemed stacked against Iron Chef Symon, who felt the pressure to earn his first victory after having won the Next Iron Chef competition. Add to…
>> Ocean City: Making it harder to score hookers on your beach weekend since 2007. [WTOP] >> Metro is going to start distributing free bottles of hand sanitizer in stations beginning next week, in an effort to prevent the spread of flu germs. Except only 2,000 riders at each station will get them, on a first come, first served basis. We’d like to suggest they distribute them based on filthiness. You should have to…
WMATA has issued a service alert that the entrance to the Metro Center station at 13th and G Streets NW is closed due to a police situation. A reader let us know that he can see bomb units on the scene from his office window, with a bomb-seeking robot being assembled to go into the metro entrance with a team of police dogs. The service alert indicates that only this entrance is closed and that…
