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• Posted Go Home Already: Make Room to DCist
  Photo by caroline.angelo Whoa! Reliable Source reports that "polo-playing socialites" Tareq and Michaele Salahi may have successfully crashed the White House State Dinner on Tuesday night, gaining admittance without an invitation. Acorn is laying off 240 employees, but so far none in D.C., Housing Complex says.Tragic accident: An Arlington County employee was killed and another severely injured after being electrocuted while trying to fix that big water main break on Glebe Rd., the Post...
• Posted Suspect in 9-Year-Old's Murder Found Dead in D.C. Jail to DCist
  The man who was arrested and charged in the Nov. 14 killing of 9-year-old Oscar Fuentes has been found dead inside his cell in the D.C. Jail, according to a report from WTTG/FOX5. Josue Pena, 26, had been charged with first-degree murder in the death of Fuentes, who died after being shot through the door of his Columbia Heights apartment. The Washington Post reported earlier that paramedics had been called to the jail for...
• Posted First Trailer for The Real World DC to DCist
  MTV has posted the first trailer for The Real World DC on its web site. It includes a number of establishing shots of our fair city (including, inexplicably, an intro featuring President Barack Obama exiting Marine One to the tune of the Civil War-era song "When Johnny Comes Marching Home," aka "The Ants Go Marching," ... maybe the producers confused it with "Hail to the Chief"?), and there are a couple of fun scenes showing...
• Posted President Obama Pardons the White House Turkey to DCist
  President Barack Obama pardoned his first White House turkey, Courage, a little while ago. The White House has since released video of the ceremony (see below), during which Obama called Courage "a good looking bird." The president was in a joking mood, noting that "there are days when I'm reminded why I ran for this office ... and then there are days like this, when you pardon a turkey and send it Disneyland." Obama also...
• Posted D.C. Police Seek Suspect in Series of Bank Robberies to DCist
  The Metropolitan Police Department has released security camera images of a man wanted in a series of recent bank robberies. Police say the suspect in question may be responsible for the Nov. 21 attempted robbery of a Bank of America branch in the 3500 block of Georgia Avenue NW, and a Nov. 14 robbery of a PNC Bank branch in the 3300 block of 14th Street NW. In both cases, the suspect produced a...