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Teen dies of injuries from dirt-bike crash
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The owner’s asking price for Museum Square was $250 million.
Residents unite to save their building Low-income building on edge of Chinatown gets a 1-year reprieve THE DISTRICT Saving the D.C. apartment building seemed impossible, but the tenants association president resolved to try. So Kevin Rogers and fellow board member Vera Watson set out to knock on every door in Museum Square. The problem: More than 70 percent of their neighbors were Chinese. Most were elderly and spoke little English. Rogers and Watson needed to convey the urgency of the matter. In June, the residents received notices that the building’s owners would stop accepting a government subsidy to house low-income residents. Residents would receive vouchers to use someplace else. It would disperse the building’s 291 households, which includes nearly half of the Chinese immigrant population left around Chinatown. But there was a chance to stop it. City law mandates that the residents and the District each get a chance to make a reasonable offer to buy the building. The owner’s asking price:
“If I moved to another neighborhood, I would not leave my house.” XINNONG YI, 82, a retired literature teacher who has lived in the U.S. for 16 years. “I would be too scared.”
$250 million. The struggle at Fourth and K streets NW illustrates how increasingly difficult it can be to preserve low-income housing, even in a city desperate for it. Rogers enlisted the help of nonprofit housing lawyers and found interpreters. There were 291 occupied units. They got signatures from 202 showing their interest in buying the building. On Monday evening, he found out the property owners sent a letter saying they would slow down the process — residents could stay for another year, with a longer period to make their case. “The bad news is one day we might still be kicked out,” Rogers said. ROBERT SAMUELS (THE WASHINGTON POST)
Judge hears arguments on Corcoran Gallery merger
A 17-year-old who was fatally injured Monday when a dirt bike he was riding hit a tree in Southeast had been fleeing from Prince George’s County, Md., police, his family and authorities said. The teen, Amir Brooks of Prince George’s, and his cousin were on a green Kawasaki dirt bike when they crashed. Amir’s mother said her son died at 12:12 a.m. Wednesday and that Amir’s cousin, who was injured, remains in the hospital. (THE WASHINGTON POST)
TRANSPORTATION
Uber and Lyft get OK to operate in Virginia Virginia officials said Wednesday that they have reached an agreement with Uber and Lyft that allows the ride-sharing services to continue operating in the state. The deal comes after months of escalating tension between the state and the two companies. (TWP)
Answers, from Page 3 A William Burck, pointing out that Bob McDonnell wasn’t required to report gifts to his wife, Maureen, a private citizen B John Brownlee, saying that his client had intended only to promote a Virginia company C Jonnie Williams, saying he wasn’t interested in attending a tool party (the “guy’s equivalent” of a bridal shower) for the McDonnells’ future son-in-law. He looked into buying them a generator but settled instead on a $10,000 check D Mary-Shea Sutherland, responding to questions that implied Maureen McDonnell was a lonely, anxious woman who found friendship with Williams E Phil Cox, testifying that he witnessed Maureen trying to pitch Ann Romney on a diet supplement produced by Williams’ company
Two held without bond after Md. tattoo attack