As mentioned in the Morning Roundup and widely reported in today’s Post and Examiner, Mayor Adrian Fenty announced today his selection of Dennis Rubin to take over the Fire and Emergency Medical Services Department. Rubin resigned from his post as Atlanta’s Fire Chief on Monday, effective April 13. Once approved by the City Council, Rubin takes over a department that has had its share of issues, from Chief Ronnie Few’s résumé embellishment to the enormous…

As we reported on Friday, the Moms on the Hill (or MoTHs, whose activities we are documenting at Ionarts) and their friends continue their efforts to get the money and donated items they have collected thus far to the people displaced by Hurricane Katrina. News reports on WTOP last night speculated that perhaps no evacuees were coming to Washington, but today we have learned (as reported in the Post) that 400 evacuees will arrive…

The Post is reporting that a watermain break near the intersection of 13th Street and Florida Avenue in Northwest has disrupted service for people “from Adams Morgan and Cleveland Park in the Northwest and Brookland in Northeast.” The break, which the AP, via WTOP, has described as “massive,” has buckled the street and “most of the dirt under the road’s surface has been washed away.” This photo was sent to us by DCist reader Garrison…