>> “Monument Realty filed a federal lawsuit today against Metro to stop the sale of the transit agency’s land near the Washington Nationals’ new baseball stadium, escalating a dispute that threatens to disrupt the opening of the ballpark next spring.” [WaPo] >> Check your old Mega Millions tickets. [WJLA] >> “Well, then you can’t have the apples.” [why.i.hate.dc] >> Carroll Co. school lockdown lifted, two males being questioned after student threatened to ‘shoot up’…

>> There’s a new webcam available showing the progress of Monument Realty’s Half Street project, which includes the expansion of the Navy Yard Metro station. [Near Southeast DC Redevelopment] >> Georgetown student pleads not guilty in hate crime investigation. [WJLA/AP] >> Members of the Metro board representing D.C. are pushing for higher parking fees at suburban stations in order to avoid increasing bus fares. [Examiner] >> A bunch of streets will be closed this…

Happy Thursday, D.C. Well, if another day of high humidity and the threat of thunderstorms could be “happy”… In good travel-related news, scheduling your restroom trips on flights to and from Reagan National Airport just got easier: the restrictions on leaving your seat within thirty minutes of takeoff or landing have been lifted in the wake of a restructuring of the Department of Homeland Security. Created in response to the 9/11 attacks, the regulations…

Is the golden age of Woodley Park’s anchor as a convention and meeting site coming to a close? The Post reports that the Marriott Wardman Park hotel may be sold for $200 million and a new developer, Chevy Chase’s JBG, hopes to convert part of its complex into condominums, similar to Monument Realty’s plans to convert the Watergate’s hotel into condos. The Wardman Park, the city’s largest hotel, and the Omni Shoreham have brought countless…

Is the Watergate historic? That’s the question that faces the District’s Preservation Review Board on Thursday. Certainly the building that redefined the art of political scandal has a place in American history, but its residents are locked in a pitched battle that mixes property rights with history. The West End Guide reminds us what’s at stake. A group of residents opposed to the conversion of the complex’s hotel into new condos want the building declared…