Ballou High School also received a threat today, though police do not have information about whether they’re connected.

Police are seeking the public’s assistance in identifying a person of interest in connection to Tuesday’s shooting near Ballou High School.

Two of the victims are 17-years-old.

As D.C. CAS testing approaches students at various schools are psyching themselves up with testing-themed renditions of their favorite songs.

He might not be throwing out the first pitch at tomorrow’s Nationals home opener, but President Barack Obama will be traveling through town this morning en route to a speech at Georgetown University this morning. The speech will begin at 11:15 a.m. — traffic restrictions have been in place around the Georgetown campus since 6 a.m. this morning.

A police investigation is underway at Ballou High School today after a D.C. police officer and a security guard were sprayed with mace by a young person. WUSA9 reported this afternoon that a police officer had recognized a juvenile inside the school from an outstanding arrest warrant in Virginia — at some point after that, the suspect produced mace and sprayed both the officer and a security guard near a secondary exit and fled the…

If there are two things most people know about WTOP Political Analyst Mark Plotkin, it’s that one, he’s not very tech-savvy, and two, he’s passionate aboout District voting rights. So passionate, it seems, that he even got himself kicked out of the White House yesterday. According to fellow WTOP reporter Mark Segraves’ account of the incident, Plotkin, along with the rest of the D.C. press corps and various local elected officials, attended an event at…

We mentioned the nearly completed documentary film about the award-winning Ballou High School marching band, called simply Ballou, in a previous, less up-beat post about some fights that broke out there during the first week of the school. The film is still in its final post-production stages, but while the filmmakers are busy mixing audio tracks, the student musicians who are featured in the film are getting ready for a visit from The Ellen…

By DCist contributor Spencer Ackerman It’s pretty appropriate for a cooking expo so near the Chesapeake Bay that the first olfactory experience greeting a visitor to the Metropolitan Cooking & Entertaining Show is a powerful blast of salty, baking fish. No one is going to mistake D.C.’s answer to the New York Fancy Food Expo — a 100-stall extravaganza of middlebrow-to-high-end cooking, oenophilia, celebrity chefs and cheap wares — for the food-porn original. But with…

We hope that after yesterday’s air raid, things will be a bit calmer in the city today. This photo by Justin DC, posted on Flickr, shows an empty stairwell in the Russell Senate Office Building, which was evacuated, along with the rest of the Capitol campus yesterday. Although we were tucked away in our office near the Hill and didn’t see the crush of evacuees in the streets, we can safely assume this stairwell…