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Mar 26, 2020

D.C.’s Emergency Alert Caused Some Confusion Last Night. Here’s What It Meant

It was not a “shelter-in-place” order, for the record.

Dec 13, 2016

Arts Advocate Hosts ‘Trump Dinner’ To Meet Supporters Of President-Elect

Now she’s trying to figure out how to do more of them.

Jun 02, 2016

Pentagon Official Placed On Leave After Menacing A Nanny Over Parking

Where else but Capitol Hill?

Feb 10, 2014

God’s Ark of Safety: A Maryland Roadside Oddity

If you’ve ever driven out toward Deep Creek Lake or Pittsburgh, you’ve likely seen a huge steel replica of Noah’s Ark. Here’s the story behind it.

Jun 17, 2013

Cellar Dwellers: United Fall to Lowly Toronto FC

Surprise! D.C. United lost again, this time to a team nearly as bad as they are, Toronto FC. Here’s our match report and photos.

May 30, 2013

RFK Stadium Named to List of Best Stadium Food. Wait, What?

RFK Stadium has been named to a “Best Stadium Food” list. Wait, what?

May 22, 2013

Driver Sets Up Drum Kit on Baltimore Highway After Car Runs Out of Gas

In the latest, and perhaps greatest, sign that Baltimore is rapidly becoming the mid-Atlantic’s very own Portlandia, consider this dispatch yesterday from Insterstate 695.

Mar 29, 2013

V Street Pop-Up is a Big Middle Finger to Taste and Scale

There’s this rowhouse on V Street. It was once a modest two-story structure, until someone decided that adding three stories to it would be a good idea.

Jan 28, 2013

Man Walks Around Va. Grocery Store With Loaded AR-15

Shoppers at a Kroger supermarket in Charlottesville got a bit of a scare yesterday evening when a 22-year-old man walked into the store toting a loaded AR-15 rifle.

Dec 19, 2012

Virginia Bill Would Order Teachers to Carry Guns

In the wake of last week’s mass shooting at an elementary school in Connecticut, a member of the Virginia House of Delegates is going several steps further and actually require some educators to carry guns.

 
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