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There aren't a ton of reasons you'd be heading to Judiciary Square on the weekend, but be aware that the entire Metro station will be closed on Saturday, from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m., due to security measures for the G20 Summit. The National Building Museum, where the summit of panicked world finance ministers is being held, will also be closed all weekend. And note that if you work late on Friday night, the F Street entrance at Judiciary Square will close at 7 p.m., but you can still access the station that evening by using the 4th and D Street entrance.

Metro is reporting that Judiciary Square station on the Red line is closed as of 11:30 this morning, due to a suspicious package. Trains are running through the station, but no passengers are allowed to enter or exit as investigators look into the situation. Metro is especially security-heavy this week since tomorrow is the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. Metro's web site is reporting that the investigation is expected to take 1 to 2 hours, so passengers should reroute through Gallery Place until the situation clears up.

WMATA has released the above photo of Metro employee Fred Kenley installing new fare charts today at the Judiciary Square station. The transit agency’s first fare hike in four years takes effect this Sunday, January 6. You can calculate how much your commute will cost now online.

Welcome back to work, Washington. This week promises not only to feel longer than normal thanks to its coming on the heels of a holiday, but also hot enough that you might want to consider setting up an ad-hoc shower in your office, as there's little chance you'll get there without breaking into a sweat first. The Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments has issued a Code Orange alert because of the heat wave, and...

Feel like your morning commute isn't already filled with enough ads for Lockheed Martin or the anti-abortion lobby? Then the Examiner brings you good tidings, as a proposal is on the table to greatly expand the amount of space available to advertisers on Metrorail and Metrobuses. Metro General Manager John Catoe hopes the proposal will help balance the long out of whack WMATA budget without increasing fares.

Good Morning, D.C. It sure is getting hot in here, and for once, we don't just mean the weather. The Post reports this morning that the Voting Rights Bill is making some progress in the Senate. Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.), a co-sponsor of the bill, announced that the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, which he chairs, will vote on the legislation Wednesday. And in a meeting with Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton and Mayor Fenty,...

Cheer up, Washington. Despite the Auntie Em! force winds (that's National Weather Service nomenclature) and the promise of D.C.'s favorite weather forecast on Sunday, the non-committal "wintry mix," we've seen the promised land of spring. A few late season death rattles can't take that away. They say that late January is the most depressing time of the year for most people. But with the continued cold, getting stuck in the ice daily last week, those drivers whose IQs seem to drop into an abyss at the first sign of precipitation, late February may be the most angry time of year. Soon enough, though, you'll forget all about everyone who has wronged you because you can finally sit outside and have lunch again, and you'll still have all that daylight to work with after you get out of the office. Just please do your best to not follow the poor example of the quote of the week, and try to control all that built up winter frustration until spring arrives for good.

In the area around the D.C. Courthouse on Indiana Avenue NW near Judiciary Square, and we suspect elsewhere in the city, there are massive plumes of steam coming from the grates in the sidewalk. We usually don't pay any attention to the steam that regularly comes up from the grates around town, but thanks to the cold, cold, Vostok-esque weather, these are reaching higher than the surrounding buildings. Walking through them is like flying in...

Though we like to think of ourselves as politically-minded, sometimes it's easy to let slip all the dates, deadlines and forms that can be involved. For example, I never would have obtained an absentee ballot and voted if my mother, the doyenne of our family's political involvement, downloaded it for me, brought it to my house, stood over my shoulder as I voted, and mailed it right then. (Thanks, mom!)

Sadly, not everybody has such an awesome, involved mom. And that's what DCist is for. No, not to fulfill some weird matronly needs of yours, but to remind you: today is the last day to request your D.C. absentee ballot to vote in the November 7 elections!

Luckily, there's this internet thing to help you out. The D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics has got you covered — simply head to their Web page and download the Absentee Ballot Request Form.

Since the ballots are actually due today, you can either teleport them to the DCBOEE or drop them off in person at their office, which is 441 4th Street, NW, Suite 250 North, above the Judiciary Square Metro. The nice lady at the office also told us you can vote there in person until November 6, so that might be a better option.

Either way, get out there and do it! Voting: it's fun.

WAMU news is reporting that there is a fire at the escalator in Union Station, preventing Metro trains from stopping there. Metro's website is repoting the station as closed. Buses are running from Judiciary Square and New York Avenue into the Station. It doesn't appear as if regular trains or the rest of Union Station is affected at this time. Here's hoping everyone has already left work!

A DCist reader has told us that a bomb threat has been reported near the Judiciary Square Metro station. The D.C. government office building located at 441 4th Street NW is closed to incoming and outgoing traffic, and WMATA is reporting that the 4th Street/Courthouse Metro entrance is likewise closed. We'll report on details as they emerge; please leave your own updates in the comments.

DCist has been sent some unsubstantiated celebrity sightings from this weekend. We put our fact checkers hot on the confirmation trail, but really, celebrity sightings are more intriguing gossip than serious journalistic news, so we've decided to go straight to you, our eyes and ears on the ground. So dish already. Here are the details as we know them right now: On Saturday, the D.C. Office of Motion Picture and Television Development hosted an open...

It's not everyday that you run into a marching band on the District's streets. Yesterday was one of those days, though. After attending a brief meeting in the Judiciary Square area, DCist emerged to find a high school marching band clad in yellow t-shirts bearing the slogan, "Brown for Mayor." And suddenly it all made sense -- Michael Brown, son of the late Clinton era Commerce Secretary Ron Brown, officially declared his candidacy for mayor...

DCist's Monuments series continues our recent swing through Judiciary Square today with the Joseph James Darling Fountain, one of the most hidden-in-plain-sight monuments around town. For some time, the fountain has rated little more than a sentence or two every few years in the local press. Major newspapers from across the country get around to doing a piece on the District's statues once or twice a decade -- add another sentence. It doesn't add up...

As the Senate convenes this week to determine which side is more stubborn in its demand to shape the federal judiciary, we figured this was a good time to look at a slightly less ugly aspect of our country's court system: John Marshall Park. The spot of land we know today as Judiciary Square was a lot of things before it became just another few blocks of federal Washington. Long before there was a...

Attention riders of metorail's Red, Orange and Blue lines. Single-tracking along parts of the lines will slow travel heading across Capitol Hill and through Union Station this weekend. First up, the Red Line between Judiciary Square and Rhode Island Avenue-Brentwood will see some track maintenance Saturday until 4 p.m. and Sunday until noon. Second, due to switch replacement track work at the Stadium Armory station, some trains on the Orange and Blue lines will terminate...

Are you stressed out because you work in or near Judiciary Square? With all the police officers, court officials, deteriorating 19th century buildings and bland institutional government architecture, we can't blame you.

Did you get caught in the downpours this weekend? Here's a shot of a bolt of lightning taken from Matthew Bradley's Flickr photostream via DCist Photos. (We think this was taken from Fourth Street NE, correct us if we're wrong.) What else happened this weekend? A quick roundup: ... Traffic was delayed through Georgetown Saturday afternoon after a traffic officer was hit by a vehicle at the intersection of M Street and Wisconsin Avenue....

Good morning Washington, the good weather is continuing, according to Capital Weather. This photo, by Matthew Bradley posted in DCist Photos via Flickr, shows somebody repairing a security camera at the National Archives.

Good morning, Washington. As you can see from this photo of the National Cathedral from the Newark Street gardens taken this morning, it should be a nice day, though according to Capital Weather, rain may be moving in this evening and into the overnight hours.

We were still asleep this morning and didn't realize there were major delays on the Red Line until 7:30 a.m. WMATA has posted a release about the discovery and repair of a section of "defective" tracks between the Friendship Heights and Bethesda stations. From WMATA: A Metro contractor who conducts specialized track inspections while the Metrorail system is closed to customers, identified the problem with a stretch of track between the Bethesda and Friendship Heights...

DCist has less-than-fond memories of the Department of Motor Vehicles office on C Street in Judiciary Square. It can a dreaded office, where long lines, Byzantine rules and sometimes, just sometimes, your requests can strike a sensitive nerve with clerks. When we got our drivers license a while back, DCist got embroiled in a four-hour ordeal that involved us pitting the helpful front desk clerks against a secondary clerk in back regarding whether our combination of identification, payroll stubs, compact with the devil to give up our first born, etc., was enough to secure a coveted D.C. drivers license.

WMATA officials have announced passengers will be charged off-peak fares for the remainder of the day on Metrorail after emergency repairs caused massive disruption on the Red Line earlier today.

A large assembly of WMATA track personnel is out in full force doing emergency repairs on the Red Line downtown near the Judiciary Square double crossover, which has caused massive delays into Maryland. WMATA has set up a special shuttle service to bypass the problem. Red Line trains are sharing the same track between Judiciary Square and Farragut North. DCist was stuck at the Tenleytown station trying to get to Union Station. When the train...

So Red Liners, how was your commute this morning? Due to construction this weekend at the New York Avenue-Florida Avenue-Gallaudet University station, there are speed restrictions between Union Station and Rhode Island Avenue. WMATA says there are 6 minute delays. It took DCist 20 minutes to get across downtown this morning, 10 minutes of that time was spent stuck between Judiciary Square and Union Station. Hopefully the delays will clear up by lunchtime.

Though there will not be a full closure of the Red Line because of NewYoFla-related trackwork this weekend, the Red Line will be sharing one track in either direction between Judiciary Square and Rhode Island Avenue. And that means there will be delays of up to 15 minutes.

Could you stop terrorism on your daily bus ride? Do you know how to react in an emergency situation on metrorail? If you can, or want to learn how, you might be perfect for WMATA's "Metro Citizen Corps."

WMATA is warning weekend riders that they may experience delays on the Red Line and Orange Line for track work.