Prince George’s County emergency crews responded to the Chemistry Building at the University of Maryland this afternoon after an explosion injured two female students.

Rockville’s Collin McKenzie-Gude, the young man who pleaded guilty last year to possessing bomb-making chemicals, was sentenced to five years in prison today, the Post is reporting. Among other allegations against McKenzie-Gude, prosecutors alleged the chemicals, an arsenal of firearms and a map of Camp David found among his possessions were part of a planned attempt to assassinate President Barack Obama. Today’s sentence amounts to 61 months in prison (minus the 17 months McKenzie-Gude…

D.C. Council member Mary Cheh (D-Ward 3) has introduced a bill that would ban more than a dozen hazardous chemicals from being sold in the District, the Examiner reports. Among the materials listed in the proposed ban: Mattresses and furniture containing polybrominated diphenyl ethers, or PBDEs, which act as flame retardents; food or beverage containers intended for children younger than 6 that contain Bisphenol-A, or BPA, which has been linked to neurological health problems; and…

By now, everyone knows that some fish in the filthy Potomac River have developed both male and female reproductive systems. They’ve been dubbed “intersex” by the media, and we’ve all had a nervous laugh about how the pollution we’ve poured into the river is probably to blame for creating the first ever bi-gendered fish. Whoops! How were we to know? Well the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments sponsored a conference in West Virginia last week…