“Howard West” kicks off this summer.

A D.C. appeals board ruled yesterday that a player on Wilson High School’s football team was in fact a Maryland resident, making him ineligible and booting the team from the annual Thanksgiving Day Turkey Bowl.

Woodrow Wilson High School’s football team was ejected from D.C.’s Turkey Bowl game scheduled for Thanksgiving Day, after D.C. Public Schools found that the team’s roster included a student who lives in Maryland.

After news emerged yesterday that its nominee to lead the D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics may not meet residency requirements for the position, Mayor Vince Gray’s administration has said that it’s exploring seeking a waiver to the law.

The Onyx on First apartments The D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics released the petition documents today of those individuals who filed initiative measure applications for the so-called “Marriage Initiative of 2009.” This is the petition put together by a group of D.C. area Baptist ministers, led by the outspoken Bishop Harry Jackson, who are seeking to put the question of whether to legalize same-sex marriage in the District up for a popular vote….

Peter Nickles WTOP’s Mark Segraves gets the scoop every local reporter has been angling for: exactly where in D.C. does Attorney General Peter Nickles now live? Segraves says it’s Chinatown, in an apartment on 7th Street NW. Nickles, a longtime Virginia resident, took his time about complying with District law that states that senior government officials must reside inside the city limits. The attorney general has said that he moved into his new digs…

So D.C. Attorney General Peter Nickles says he’s finally moved into the District from Virginia, as he was required to do under D.C. law after he was confirmed as Fenty’s replacement AG. “I have moved. I have a D.C. license plate. I have my picture on a D.C. license. I’m paying D.C. taxes,” Nickles said. But he won’t say where, exactly, he’s living, and it sure sounds like his wife is not really living…