Photo by Brian Knight Photography DDOT and the MPD have announced the following roads will be closed for part of this weekend while two big events are underway: the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure and UNIFEST. Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure: Activities begin around 7:20 a.m. on Saturday, June 6. There will be temporary road closures along the race route, which travels around the National Mall. In addition to the…

Tonya Bell, the woman who crashed her car into a crowd at the UNIFEST street festival in June after a crack cocaine binge, has been sentenced to 25 years in prison. Bell injured almost 50 people, many of them seriously, at the annual soul-food festival held by the Union Temple Baptist Church along Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue SE in Anacostia. Bell, of Oxon Hill, had faced 15 to 25 years after reaching a plea…