Police charged 23-year-old Khary Edwards for the incident, which took place on Saturday in Camp Springs, Md.

A group of Prince George’s County firefighters stopped off for a bite to eat. When they returned to their truck, they saw a naked man climbing the aerial ladder.

For years, WTOP’s Mark Segraves has been visiting on and off with a man called “Naked Ned, the beaver man of the Potomac.” Turns out, he actually prefers to be called “Chaosmi The Infinite.”

According to WTOP’s Adam Tuss, a naked man was spotted wandering around the United Airlines ticket counter at Dulles International Airport this morning.

Photo by LR_PTY There was a brief suspicious package investigation around 15th and E streets NW on Wednesday evening, in the area of the Ellipse. As so often happens, the package, which turned out to be a plastic bag with clothes in it, was cleared so quickly we didn’t even have a chance to report on it before the incident was already over. But as it turns out, there was more than package on…

Above you’ll see Comet 17/P Holmes making its way across the sky. This photo was taken by philliefan_99, who caught this bright image just outside the city a few days after Holmes made an amazing outburst on October 24 — and by “amazing” we mean it brightened nearly a million times. Though the comet has been close enough to the Earth to be visible through fairly powerful telescopes since July, it’s now visible with…

MONDAY: Peter Behrens will be at Politics and Prose to discuss his latest book, The Law of Dreams. Maybe Behrens can analyze our reoccurring dream where we keep getting lost while driving down some featureless freeway. Wait … His book is about a young man roaming the Irish countryside in 1847? Good thing we read that before we asked about the part where we’re naked. 7:30 p.m. TUESDAY: The one and only Dave Eggers will…

>> DAM! Fest kicks of with its first night of shows featuring a dozen different bands at three venues, including New York’s A Place to Bury Strangers (don’t miss our interview with the band) and Dirty on Purpose at the Rock and Roll Hotel, Vandaveer and Julie Ocean at the Red and The Black, and Foreign Islands at DC9, among many others. Check out our guide to the DAM! highlights. >> Two film festivals open…

Today is National Coming Out Day, a day when gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people are encouraged to be open about who they are. The annual observance began on October 11, 1988, exactly one year after the Second National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights. (The first one was held October 14, 1979.) While there aren’t usually major events to commemorate the day, there are a couple of local events that coincide with…

Good Monday morning to you, Washington. We can officially declare that the dog days of August have arrived today, now that the House has finally, finally adjourned for their summer break. News junkies will want to note that before heading home they passed a modified version of the defense budget, which will increase spending for defense health care and military housing, among a list of other expenditures. Of course what Washingtonians really care about is…