Residents can now call 311 to report rodent sightings, and the health department says it’ll respond swiftly.

It would appear that even the swankiest grocers in tony Georgetown have the same issues as under-refrigerated warehouses in industrial Northeast D.C.

Just in time for your holiday travel, there are mice crawling all over the passenger terminal at Baltimore-Washington International Airport.

UPDATE: Original reports had indicated that mice and rats were covered under the Wildlife Protection Act, but that is not the case. The Washington Post reports that “rats and mice are exempt from the life-saving protections, meaning homeowners could still trap and kill them.” Several other animals, including raccoons, squirrels, possums and pigeons are still covered under the legislation.

Photo by sally henny penny.To say that the President-less, sports section-less, layoff-happy Washington Times is in trouble would be akin to saying that Wile E. Coyote is just an underachiever — that is, an understatement of Biblical proportions. Ian Shapira reports in the Post today that the Times is openly being shopped by its owners, the Unification Church, after the Rev. Sun Myung Moon’s family — who now controls a vested interest in the organization’s…

The Safeway on Rhode Island Ave. NE reopened late Thursday, after a follow-up health department inspection deemed the store in compliance and all issues related to its vermin infestation corrected. The store had been temporarily shuttered on Wednesday evening after a routine inspection discovered evidence of rodents. For those of you curious about the specifics of the vermin issue that led the Department of Health to close the store, notes on the inspection report, which…