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Park Service says Jack's Boathouse lease is outdated and owner is not on it Dec 28th 2012, 00:35 The National Park Service offered its first public explanation Thursday for sending Jack's Boathouse an eviction letter, saying the landmark Georgetown business has been operating on a month-to-month lease that was unchanged since 1982 and was not in the name of the current owner. Read full article >> Barbara Lett Simmons, 'faithless elector,' is dead at 85 Dec 27th 2012, 23:41 Barbara Lett Simmons died Saturday at 85, almost precisely 12 years after her most famous act: failing to cast a presidential electoral vote. A fuller obituary will follow for Simmons, a Michigan native who trained to be a schoolteacher then rose to prominence in local affairs as a education and Democratic Party activist. She spent 12 years as an at-large member of the District's board of education and later served as the city's female elected member of the Democratic National Committee. Read full article >> Mayor calls for more beat police after Capitol Hill killing Dec 27th 2012, 23:23 D.C. Mayor Vincent C. Gray said Thursday that the "horrific" Christmas Eve killing of a 28-year-old Capitol Hill man is a rallying call to put more police officers on the beat in neighborhoods across the city. Read full article >> Maryland woman, Annalee Marshall, dies after Christmas Day crash Dec 27th 2012, 23:11 A woman involved in a two-vehicle crash in Loudoun County on Christmas Day succumbed to her injuries in the hospital Thursday, according to a news release from the Loudoun County Sheriff's Office. Annalee S. Marshall, 20, of Adamstown, Md., was driving north on Route 15 near Black Walnut Lane around 12:45 p.m. when she ran off the shoulder and over-corrected into the opposite lane, police said. Her 1997 Honda Civic was struck by a 2005 Acura driven by a Pennsylvania man. Read full article >> PM Update: Winds settle down, remaining chilly Dec 27th 2012, 21:59 Our wind-chilled day notwithstanding, temperatures today still averaged on the warm side of normal. Amazingly, only two days this December have had below average temperatures. Friday may be one of the rare cooler than normal days this month, but diminishing winds will take an edge off the chill. 2012: a year of electrifying weather photos in the Washington, D.C. area Dec 27th 2012, 21:19 I have selected 20 interesting photographs from 2012 that have either appeared on our Capital Weather Gang blog or Flickr page. Most of the photographs were taken in the District but a few were shot in Maryland and Virginia. D.C. prosecutor Ronald Machen temporarily returning to Silver Spring home Dec 27th 2012, 21:08 U.S. attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr., the District's top prosecutor, said he is temporarily leaving the city and returning to his Silver Spring home because the lease on his D.C. residence was not renewed. Read full article >> Looking back: The best nightlife of 2012 Dec 27th 2012, 20:35 In 2012, a new bar seemed to open every other week, and applications for new liquor licenses were posted every few days. What's most impressive is how many newcomers had something strong worth recommending: a fresh cocktail menu or draft beer list, a great design, an outdoor space begging you to while away a sunny Sunday afternoon with drink in hand. With New Year's Eve on the horizon, check out our photo gallery of some of the cocktails and destinations that made 2012 a great year. Read full article >> Cabin fever? Here's where to take the kids. Dec 27th 2012, 20:10 Maybe you're sick of Christmas carols by now, but for parents, there's one that still resonates: The part of "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas" that goes, "And mom and dad can hardly wait for school to start again." You and the kids have been in the house together for six days so far, with five more to go. It's time to get out. Read full article >> Police: Man found fatally shot in Capitol Heights Dec 27th 2012, 20:02 A man was found dead from an apparent gunshot wound in Capitol Heights on Thursday morning, Prince George's County police said. Officers responded to a scene near Pepper Mill Drive and Drylog Street shortly before 7 a.m. for a report of a suspicious vehicle, police said. Read full article >> Some Saturday snow possible, then cold Dec 27th 2012, 19:41 Another possible winter weather event looms on the horizon for early December 29. Yet again, the Washington area is expected again to be near the line between rain and snow. OPM posts guidance for federal furloughs Dec 27th 2012, 19:41 With talks on averting the "fiscal cliff" apparently stalled, the Office of Personnel Management posted new guidance to federal workers for administrative furloughs on its Web site Thursday afternoon. Read full article >> Transforming the 'dumping ground' Dec 27th 2012, 19:27 Can Ward 5 be more than the "dumping ground" that so many of its residents call it, after decades of watching trash dumps, strip clubs, cement plants, bus lots, rail yards and other industrial uses concentrate in or near their Northeast neighborhoods? New D.C. Council member Kenyan McDuffie thinks so, and he wants a task force to look at ways to end the "overconcentration" of gritty uses in the ward he grew up in. But he's fighting mighty forces of history, economics and politics, which have conspired to concentrate 70 percent of the District's industrially zoned land there. Read full article >> Art in focus: 'Magnolia Laurie: With a Tug and a Hold' ponders cycles of collapse and creation at VisArts Dec 27th 2012, 18:49 Artist Magnolia Laurie is fascinated by decay, as well as its opposite. At VisArts, her exhibition of paintings and sculptural installation, "With a Tug and a Hold," includes several quasi-abstract scenes of a mysterious, post-apocalyptic world. Without exception, they're unpopulated. But evidence of people is everywhere, in the strange structures that she depicts. Read full article >> Video: Remy brings us 'I Saw Daddy Pat Down Santa Claus (A Very TSA Christmas Song)' Dec 27th 2012, 18:14 The Christmas travel season remains in full swing, and that means Santa gets the full treatment from Arlington comedian Remy Munasifi, and from our friends at the Transportation Security Administration, in this quick but funny look at airport security for all. Read full article >> Jane Holmes Dixon, second female bishop in Episcopal Church, dies at 75 Dec 27th 2012, 17:44 Jane Holmes Dixon, a stay-at-home Bethesda mom who became a priest in her 40s and later became the second female bishop in the Episcopal Church, died in her sleep early Christmas morning at her home in Washington. She was 75 and died of heart disease, her family said. Read full article >> Got plans for New Year's Eve? Dec 27th 2012, 17:01 Some people knew where they'd be celebrating New Year's Eve back before the Thanksgiving turkey had been carved. Others of us still have no idea where we'll be when the ball begins to descend Monday night. Read full article >> Washington theater in January Dec 27th 2012, 16:59 A new year may be upon us, but old theater acquaintances will hardly be forgotten in January. Among the fresh takes on beloved tales is a balletic spectacle of "Alice in Wonderland," a modern retelling of the Minotaur myth and a Zorro origin story. Read full article >> Are you a Washingtologist? Answer this question about downtown D.C. Dec 27th 2012, 16:40 Think you're a master of local trivia? Try answering the Washingtology question of the day from Cultural Tourism DC. Take your best guess, and see what others have answered in our daily quiz. Scroll down the page to find out the correct answer. Read full article >> Home field advantage is even more valuable in the playoffs Dec 27th 2012, 16:30 After the Redskins' win and the Giants' and Cowboys' losses Sunday, the numbers give Washington a 73% chance of making the playoffs. This includes both the more likely possibility that they win the division Sunday with a victory over Dallas, and the less likely possibility that should they lose, they get enough help to qualify for a wild card spot. Read full article >> Done deal: Washington, D.C. to complete warmest year on record in 2012 Dec 27th 2012, 16:25 2012 was a year of crazy weather in Washington, D.C. from the nearly snowless winter to the summer's scorching heat and high energy derecho to Superstorm Sandy. But the year will have yet another asterisk next to it for achieving perhaps the most remarkable milestone: warmest on record. Maryland already has a state dessert. Now lawmakers will consider a state sandwich. Dec 27th 2012, 15:53 When Maryland lawmakers reconvene next month, they'll debate some weighty issues, including gun control, alternative energy and transportation funding. They'll also tackle this: whether the Free State needs a state sandwich. Read full article >> Redskins fans will be out late Sunday Dec 27th 2012, 14:45 Neither weather nor holiday traffic is likely to be a factor in getting fans to and from FedEx Field on Sunday night for the Redskins' game with the Dallas Cowboys, though sitting inside the stadium in what the Capital Weather Gang forecasts will be "bone chilling" cold may be another matter. Read full article >> Four shot in District on Wednesday, one critically Dec 27th 2012, 13:52 A man who was shot and critically wounded Wednesday afternoon in Southeast Washington was struck several times as he sat in his car, D.C. police said on Thursday. The victim, described only as an adult male, remained in critical condition at a local hospital Wednesday with life-threatening injuries, police said. The shooting occurred about 3:30 p.m. at 14th and K streets, two blocks south of the Potomac Avenue Metro. Read full article >> Trolley owner ends wedding business rather than serve same sex couples Dec 27th 2012, 11:25 An Annapolis company whose old-fashioned trolleys are iconic in the city's wedding scene has abandoned the nuptial industry rather than serve same-sex couples. The owner of Discover Annapolis Tours said he decided to walk away from $50,000 in annual revenue instead of compromising his Christian convictions when same-sex marriages become legal in Maryland in less than a week. And he has urged prospective clients to lobby state lawmakers for a religious exemption for wedding vendors. Read full article >>

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