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Apr 30, 2012

Caption Contest: Vince Gray and McGruff Open D.C. Park

The District opened its newest public park Saturday morning at Seventh and N streets NW. For the ribbon-cutting, Mayor Vince Gray and members of the Shaw community were joined by McGruff.

Jul 18, 2011

WMATA’s Forgiveness Knows No Bounds

Remember Pamela Goins? She was the Metro custodian who, in 2008, was fired for her role in a prostitution ring at the Farragut North station. That didn’t stop her from getting another job working for WMATA, though.

Mar 03, 2009

Why Did a Metrobus Driver Punch McGruff the Crime Dog?

Photo of McGruff on a street corner in D.C. last June by Andrew Wiseman The Examiner’s Scott McCabe provides the details in today’s strangest crime story. D.C. police officer Tyrone Hardy was dressed up as the iconic McGruff the Crime Dog on Saturday afternoon, interacting with a group of children at the corner of 14th Street and Spring Road NW, when a Metrobus driver allegedly stopped his bus, got out of the vehicle, walked…

 
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