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Man Gunned Down in Southeast

NBC Washington Local News

D.C. Police have identified a man who was shot to death in Southeast late Friday night. Police were called to the 4600 block of Benning Road, Southeast shortly after 11 p.m. There they found 19-year-old Stephen Horsley of Northeast suffering from multi... »

19-year-old murdered in Southeast

Washington Examiner

A 19-year-old man was shot to death in Southeast D.C. Friday night, police said. Stephen Horsley of Northeast was found suffering from multiple gunshot wounds on the 4600 block of Benning Road Southeast around 11:17 p.m. Emergency workers took him to a... »

Fort Benning protester gets 6 months in US prison

Nation

The Associated Press The Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ga. A federal judge in Georgia has sentenced a woman to six months in priso »

D.C. taps restaurants for city office building

Washington Business Journal

The D.C. government has tapped two restaurants to occupy space in the Minnesota-Benning Government Center, a decision that could foretell how restaurants will be encouraged in the neighborhood around St. Elizabeths Hospital, The Washington Post reports... »

D.C. taps restaurants for city office building

Washington Business Journal

The D.C. government has tapped two restaurants to occupy space in the Minnesota-Benning Government Center, in a move that could foretell how restaurants are encouraged in the neighborhood around St. Elizabeths Hospital, The Washington Post reported. Th... »

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Potentially wet Wednesday A.M. commute

Get There

8:10 A.M. Update: An accident on 17th Street and Benning Road NE is blocking one westbound lane on Benning Road. Avoid that intersection. The disabled vehicle on the outer loop of the Beltway at I-66 has been cleared from the right lane. Read full article »

Construction Watch: Bellevue Library

Housing Complex

The weird, looming entrance of the Bellevue library. D.C. Chief Librarian Ginnie Cooper is nearing the end of her library building streak, with striking new facilities now open in Anacostia, Shaw, Minnesota-Benning, and Tenleytown. Her last two, in Bel... »

Last Night’s Leftovers: Virgin Sangria Edition

Young & Hungry

Rumor du jour: Cava Mezze could be coming to Columbia Heights [Prince of Petworth] José Andrés' new D.C. food truck, Pepe, will serve six kinds of flautas and one kind of sangria: the non-alcoholic kind. [Eater DC] Looking for someone to blame for the ... »

Weekend links: Next time will be better

Greater Greater Washington

by David Edmondson Photo by Halans on Flickr.A mea culpa for the meltdown: WMATA has no excuses, only apologies and acknowledgment that Thursday's metro meltdown should never have happened. The reported cause was the failure of an uninterruptable power... »

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Capital City Diner, R.I.P. (2009-2012)

Young & Hungry

Trinidad's 1940s-era Capital City Diner, which rolled into Northeast D.C. from upstate New York in 2009, is closing this weekend, citing "rising costs, a declining economy, and a national chain 'diner' restaurant opening almost a stone's throw away." T... »