Massachusetts Avenue NW is temporarily closed between Whitehaven Street to 34th Street due to police activity. The activity in question is an investigation of a suspicious package in the area. The District Department of Transportation is advising motorists use alternate routes for their evening commutes, including Connecticut and Wisconsin Avenues. UPDATE 4:47 p.m.: Just as soon as we posted this, DDOT announced that the street had been reopened….

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…

Sen. Max Baucus UPDATE 4:35 p.m. We’re now hearing the substance has been deemed harmless, and Baucus’s office has reopened. The Associated Press is reporting that authorities are investigating a suspicious package of the unidentified white powder variety that was delivered to the office of Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.). An Associated Press photographer at the scene, in the Hart Senate Office Building, heard officers say there was a threatening note with the package. Schneider…

Police closed off the entirety of Thomas Circle this morning, with no vehicle nor foot traffic allowed through the circle, due to a suspicious package investigation. The Massachusetts Ave. tunnel was also closed. MPD public information officer Kenny Bryson said the package was discovered at about 10:30 a.m. at the intersection of 13th and Mass. Ave. NW, but police decided to go ahead and close the entire circle as a precaution. This is the…

A pair of large police and emergency responses to report going on downtown today. The first is a suspicious package investigation in the mailroom of a World Bank building. Around noon, D.C. Fire/EMS responded to a call of a package delivered to the World Bank, located at 1818 H Street NW, that contained an unusual or suspicious substance, according to spokesperson Pete Piringer. There have been no reports of illnesses, but the building was partially…

A suspicious package scare in Crystal City earlier this afternoon forced the evacuation of an office building located at 2100 Crystal Drive, according to several eyewitness accounts. Arlington County Police spokesperson Det. Crystal Nosal confirmed that the county’s bomb squad destroyed the package, per standard procedure. Crystal Drive between 20th and 23rd Streets was closed during the investigation, but has since been reopened. One DCist reader wrote in to the tip line that he heard…