Customers can say goodbye to the spice store with a 50 percent off sale.

The consumer electronics giant Best Buy announced 42 stores it plans to close in the coming weeks, and the Columbia Heights location is not one of them. Two stores in Northern Virginia will close, though.

Prince of Petworth is getting all alarmist today with a rumor that the Best Buy store in Columbia Heights is on the chopping block. Not so fast. The company says it hasn’t finalized a decision about that location.