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After crash at police station, driver leaves trail of ID to his home Jan 18th 2013, 23:55 At the time, it must have seemed like a logical route to the Taco Bell. Head west down a little hill. Hang a left at the bank of trees and go one block. Burritos, nachos, maybe one of those new Cantina Bowls. They'd be his. Read full article >> Former Virginia Railway Express facilities manager, Kevin Jannell, sentenced to 2 years in prison Jan 18th 2013, 23:30 A former Virginia Railway Express employee was sentenced to two years in prison Friday for taking bribes in order to assure that a rail subcontractor was retained, according to a news release from the office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia. Read full article >> Metro Transit Police get inauguration help Jan 18th 2013, 23:20 While a smaller crowd is expected for President Obama's second inauguration than for his first, that doesn't change the fact that hundreds of thousands of celebrants are about to head to downtown Washington. Read full article >> D.C. man convicted of lesser charge of manslaughter in neighbor's stabbing Jan 18th 2013, 23:19 A Southeast Washington man who fatally stabbed a neighbor who he thought let a dog soil his lawn was found guilty Friday of manslaughter. During the week-long trial in D.C. Superior Court, prosecutors argued that Ellsworth Colbert, 57, killed Robert Leroy Wright, 36, on March 4 after confronting the victim as he was walking a friend's dog in their Penn Branch neighborhood. Read full article >> PM Update: Modest weekend warm-up before Inauguration cold blast Jan 18th 2013, 23:13 The sun was a sight for sore eyes today, but the chill was a bit of shock. Temperatures held in the 30s with a blustery wind from the northwest. Winds ease some and the mercury rebounds some Saturday. Then a big cold front sweep through Sunday, with moderate temps but a ramp up in wind speeds. See Ai Weiwei on the front of the Newseum tonight and Saturday Jan 18th 2013, 21:57 Ai Weiwei already has a show at the Hirshhorn, but tonight and Saturday night, he'll be taking over another D.C. museum. You can see the Chinese dissident artist's "Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn" and quotations about freedom on the Newseum's 74-feet-tall First Amendment tablet on the building's facade. Washington Post photographer Melina Mara captured some gorgeous images of the projections last night, and you can also see video from the Newseum below. Read full article >> Inaugural beacons: Jupiter and the moon convene Monday Jan 18th 2013, 21:36 Take a break from the Inaugural hoopla. While dancers sway to the music at Washington's Inaugural balls on Monday, Jan. 21, the cosmic couple Jupiter and the fattening moon deliver a heavenly waltz: They are less than a degree apart. Empower DC plans to sue over D.C. school closures Jan 18th 2013, 21:26 Grassroots community organization Empower DC plans to sue the District over Chancellor Kaya Henderson's school-closure plan, saying that the closures disproportionately affect black students. "The Constitution is colorblind. The proposed school closings are not," lawyer Johnny Barnes, who will lead the litigation, said in a statement Friday. "Citizens who live in Anacostia are entitled by law to be treated the same as those who live on Albemarle." Read full article >> Warm up on Inauguration Day at these cafes Jan 18th 2013, 21:08 Imagine it: While other folk wait in what are sure to be endless lines at Starbucks on Inauguration Day, you could be sipping on an espresso with pitch-perfect crema at one of the cool places Washingtonians frequent -- the kind of place where you'll get a little bit of local flavor and something tasty to eat. Read full article >> How the Going Out Guide can improve your social life Jan 18th 2013, 20:23 This week, the Going Out Guide got even more social. We added two new buttons -- Want to go and Been there -- on each our pages for individual restaurants, bars, movies and the like. Click them to save what you want to try or where you've been, and we'll save your lists for you so you can remember all these ideas. When you sign in with Facebook, you can share your plans on Facebook, too. Read full article >> Among second inaugural addresses, Lincoln's set the standard Jan 18th 2013, 20:22 He first wrote out his speech in longhand. He had it printed and then cut the text into 27 snippets that he pasted on a sheet of paper. He changed three words and added 15 commas and semicolons. Then the author, Abraham Lincoln, took the paper to the east front of the U.S. Capitol and, on March 4, 1865, delivered one of the greatest speeches in American history: his majestic second inaugural address. Read full article >> After lawsuit, Fairfax County may loosen rules on electronic signs Jan 18th 2013, 20:21 Prompted by a First Amendment lawsuit filed last year by a Vienna Methodist church, Fairfax County officials are looking at loosening their rules for electronic signs. Under the county's current zoning ordinance, digital signs that use flashing or moving text are banned. The lawsuit took issue with how the county defined "moving." Read full article >> Inauguration Day walking guide Jan 18th 2013, 19:37 As you prepare to attend the swearing-in at the Capitol, the Pennsylvania Avenue parade or inaugural balls, figure out a sensible walking route for the final stage of your trip. Then figure out another sensible route, in case the first one fails. Read full article >> Inauguration weather forecast for Washington, D.C., and what to wear Jan 18th 2013, 19:33 The Arctic floodgates open Sunday, sending a rush of chilly air towards Washington, D.C. just in time for President Obama's second inauguration. Metro to cancel major weekend work in late January Jan 18th 2013, 19:21 Metro said Friday it will cancel a major shutdown of a portion of the Red Line over the weekend of Jan. 25-27. Cellphone carriers were expected to do work along Metro's tracks to improve coverage throughout the system, as part of a congressional mandate. But the carriers requested the shutdown be rescheduled, Metro said. Read full article >> Wait, Soundgarden is performing at one of the official inaugural balls? Jan 18th 2013, 19:10 Soundgarden, who will hit DAR Constitution Hall tonight for a sold-out show in support of the album "King Animal," will be making another, less-expected appearance in Washington this weekend: They'll be serenading the president, first lady and a black-tie crowd of about 35,000 others at the official inaugural ball held at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center. With the lineup packed with mostly pop stars including Katy Perry, Usher and Alicia Keys, the one-time metalheads, well, stand out. Read full article >> John Leopold trial: Anne Arundel employee says she had to drain county exec's catheter Jan 18th 2013, 19:03 When Patricia Medlin saw John Leopold standing in her doorway, she knew what that meant: time to empty her boss's urine bag. At the misconduct trial of Anne Arundel County Executive John Leopold on Friday, his former scheduler Patricia Medlin, 63, described her thrice-daily chore of draining Leopold's catheter for nearly a year. Read full article >> Unemployment rate rises in D.C., falls in Virginia, is unchanged in Maryland Jan 18th 2013, 18:33 Unemployment data released by the Labor Department on Friday offer a mixed snapshot of how the Washington region's economic recovery is faring, with jobless rates ticking up in the District, holding steady in Maryland and dipping in Virginia. Read full article >> Maryland gun control: O'Malley details proposal for new restrictions Jan 18th 2013, 18:21 Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley's ambitious gun-control package would require citizens who move to Maryland to register guns purchased in other states, and will make it illegal for residents younger than 21 years old to purchase or own registered firearms or ammunition. Read full article >> Inaugural reflections on our golden era (or golden years?) of art and politics Jan 18th 2013, 17:47 Today, more than a half century later, it seems like the beginning of a golden age in the relationship between art and politics, inaugurated on the inauguration day of John F. Kennedy. Robert Frost, an octogenarian poet with a statesman-like shock of white hair, read a poem from the presidential lectern, and the African American contralto Marian Anderson, a living legend of American arts who had once been snubbed by the fine white ladies of the Daughters of the American Revolution, sang the national anthem. Read full article >> Credit cards in D.C. taxicabs by March 30 Jan 18th 2013, 17:27 Updated 2 p.m. with further details and correcting the effective date from March 31 to March 30 Not so long ago, Mayor Vincent C. Gray (D) and his taxicab czar had a dream for this inauguration weekend: Visitors would stream in from across the country, settle in at their downtown hotels and then hit the town by hailing a taxi featuring a brand-new, state-of-the art, credit-card-accepting "smart meter." Read full article >> National Weather Service's head-scratching Winter Storm Watch for Thursday's non-storm Jan 18th 2013, 17:12 The National Weather Service decision to issue the watch, in my view, was flawed. It misled and confused the public, and likley contributed to needless expenditures for salt/chemical treatment of roads. Four years later, feminists split by Michelle Obama's 'work' as first lady Jan 18th 2013, 17:09 In the opening moments of her second turn at history, as Michelle Obama waves at celebrants along Pennsylvania Avenue, Americans will clamor to see the first lady, who remains one of the most popular public figures in the country. In the most recent poll, fully 73 percent said they approve of the way she is handling her job. Read full article >> Status updates the inaugural "Social Media Butler" will inevitably have to make Jan 18th 2013, 17:00 Some say that this inauguration won't be as lavish as the last one. Tell that to the poor "social media butler," whose services are being offered up as part of a $47,000 Madison Hotel package this weekend. Read full article >> Are you a Washingtologist? Answer this question about George Washington. Jan 18th 2013, 16:59 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. Read full article >>

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