Service on the Yellow line between Pentagon and L’Enfant Plaza will close beginning Sept. 10.

>> Soon-to-be Mayor Fenty has named Brian K. Lee as interim fire chief and attorney Matthew Cutts to chair the Sports and Entertainment Commission, as well as three mayoral appointments to the D.C. Board of Education: Laura McGiffert Slover, Tonya Vidal Kinlow, and Herb Scott. [WaPo] >> The Yellow Line extension is Coming! The Yellow Line is extension is coming! On Sunday. [AP via WTOP] >> Eric Schaeffer of Signature Theater reveals the wild partying…

>> New Police Chief Cathy Lanier on being a woman in the Metropolitan Police Dept.: “Lanier says she wants to tell her story so it will help other women who face similar challenges. She describes how she faced a constant barrage of sexual harassment when she first came on the force in 1990. ‘I’ve had police officers expose themselves to me riding around in a patrol car. {I was} assigned with a training officer who…

>> The Yellow Line is back in full service after an accident killed Leslie A. Cherry, a veteran Metro employee from Maryland, while he was conducting a routine track inspection. Another Metro employee is currently in critical condition at an area hospital. Our thoughts are with the families of both employees, as well as the train operator involved in the accident. >> Don’t forget to head to down to Ireland’s Four Fields Pub in Cleveland…

Word is leaking out — Metro’s Yellow Line will extend its runs to the Ft. Totten station during off-peak hours starting in January 2007. In a letter to his constituents, Council-member Jim Graham (D-Ward 1), who had long pushed for the idea, wrote: The WMATA board has given the green light to extending the Yellow Line to Fort Totten during off-peak periods. As a voting member, I proposed this extension. It would double the number…