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D.C.’s $220 million forensics lab has only been open for five months, but it’s already turned into a mess, according to forensic experts interviewed by the Washington Times. “A defense attorney would have a field day with this if they walked into the evidence vault,” says one.

LEADING THE MORNING NEWS:

• Three dead in Quantico murder-suicide. [WJLA]
• Downtown nightclub that was the scene of murder was redesigned months ago. [Post]
• Pedestrian killed in Florida Avenue hit-and-run, alleged driver arrested. [WTOP]
• Gallon-smashing teens face police investigation. [City Desk]
• D.C. student arrested for bringing a pellet gun to school. [Post]
• Hearing postponed for the shadow campaign’s Jeanne Clark Harris. [Examiner]

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LOOSE LIPS, by Loose Lips columnist Alan Suderman. (tips? lips@washingtoncitypaper.com)

• Unaccompanied youth, as young as 12, being turned away from homeless shelter [Post]
• Post endorsement goes to Pat Mara. [Post]
• Anita Bonds says new councilmember should be a woman. [Examiner]
• “Nonfunctional” rooms at spiffy new crime lab [Times]
• Marion Barry and David Catania are friends forever. [Post]
• Nice old men who helped Harry Thomas Jr. steal city money sentenced to probation. [WAMU]
• Muriel Bowser for mayor: unbeatable? [NBC4]
• Not everyone happy about new Barry Farm rec center construction [NBC4]
• Jeanne Clarks Harris court hearing postponed; Thomas Gore‘s hearing set for next week [Examiner]
• City doesn’t really want to keep FBI HQ [WBJ]
• More on Vince Gray‘s CBE advisory panel. [WBJ]

HOUSING COMPLEX, by Aaron Wiener (tips? awiener@washingtoncitypaper.com)

• ANC committee votes against liquor license moratorium [Borderstan]
• City regulators take aim at a Columbia Heights eyesore [New Columbia Heights]
• The first three medical marijuana dispensaries should open next month. [Examiner]
• One of them’s already gotten some attention from congressmen. [National Journal]
• A few homes recently bought and sold that you can’t afford [Washingtonian]
• Oh, and one more: Tim Geithner‘s [Curbed]
• Streetcars or bus rapid transit? A tight first-round matchup in the urbanist bracket [Atlantic Cities]
• Coffee roastery and lab coming to Rhode Island Avenue NE [RIA Insider]
• The new DCPS budget: more funding for elementary school kids, less for high schoolers [GGW]
• It takes effort to pick favorites among D.C.’s nearly identical Metro stations. [DCist]
• Barry Farm protesters bemoan temporary loss of rec center. [WJLA]
• Today on the market: Four-unit building