Hart Building Open for Regular Business Today- July 22, 2008 A New York man climbed onto a 7th-floor ledge overlooking the atrium of a Senate building yesterday and held police negotiators at bay for more than eight hours before agreeing to climb down to safety early this morning, U.S. Capitol Police said today.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/metro/dc/index_xml/~3/342412392/AR2008072200... Barry Seeks Audit After Payroll Glitch- July 22, 2008 D.C. Council member Marion Barry is calling for an audit of the District government's payroll foul-up that left hundreds of students unpaid last week in the summer youth job program.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/metro/dc/index_xml/~3/342412402/AR2008072102... Metrobuses Get a Makeover- July 22, 2008 Metro rolled out a bold new red-and-silver color scheme yesterday for a sleeker-looking Metrobus, the first step in an overhaul of the region's largest bus system that is intended to improve service and attract more riders.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/metro/dc/index_xml/~3/342412399/AR2008072101... Negotiators Try to Talk Man Down From Ledge- July 22, 2008 A man remained precariously perched early today atop the protective wall that surrounds the atrium of the Hart Senate Office Building. Authorities, fearing that he could plunge seven stories at any time, continued negotiating with him.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/metro/dc/index_xml/~3/342412403/AR2008072102... Plans for Rhee to Discuss Pay Proposal Criticized- July 22, 2008 Continued tensions within the leadership of the Washington Teachers' Union over contract talks with the D.C. school system broke into the open yesterday as two members of the group's executive board protested plans for Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee to speak at a series of membership meetings that...http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/metro/dc/index_xml/~3/342412394/AR2008072103... On a Charity Ride Down East Coast, Horsemen Find Traffic Hard to Tame- July 22, 2008 As it turns out, two horsemen riding through the District on their way from Maine to Florida ran into the same problem as commuters driving into the city every day.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/metro/dc/index_xml/~3/342412397/AR2008072102... Md. Woman Pleads Guilty to Aiding Scam- July 22, 2008 A 73-year-old Maryland woman implicated in the D.C. tax scandal pleaded guilty yesterday to federal charges that she helped carry out a fraud that cost the District tens of millions of dollars.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/metro/dc/index_xml/~3/341786252/AR2008072101... Doubts Linger on Pre-K-8 Strategy- July 22, 2008 Like surgical scars, once promising or trendy ideas for reform have left their marks all over the D.C. school system. Many came as officials pursued the best way to configure schools for students coping with their turbulent adolescent years.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/metro/dc/index_xml/~3/342412400/AR2008072102... Open-Topped Shuttle Deaths Ruled Accidental- July 21, 2008 The District's Office of the Chief Medical Examiner said today that two men who were killed while riding an open-topped shuttle service suffered from "blunt head trauma."http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/metro/dc/index_xml/~3/342412405/AR2008072101... Firefighters Stage Dramatic Rescue of Injured Worker- July 21, 2008 Traffic on K Street in downtown Washington was snarled this morning as D.C. firefighters staged the dramatic rescue of a worker on the ninth floor of an 11-story building under construction, officials said.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/metro/dc/index_xml/~3/341597831/AR2008072100... |