Subject: Afternoon Buzz: Metro passenger fled smoke-filled train rather than wait for rescue
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Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 14:37:31 -0500 (EST)

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Metro passenger fled smoke-filled train rather than wait for rescue <http://link.washingtonpost.com/544d41923b35d04a5290184026jyv.306c/VLloG8PoCuVz9VNbA3bf7>
Lori Aratani
Jeffrey Todd was on his way home from work to meet his wife and family for dinner Monday evening.Just a little after 3 p.m., he sent his wife a text.“I’m at L’Enfant. Train is ARR, I’ll be there in 14 minutes. GRR not arrived in 3. See you in 17.”Read full article &gt;&gt; [Read full article »] <http://link.washingtonpost.com/544d41923b35d04a5290184026jyv.306c/VLloG8PoCuVz9VNbA3bf7> 

Prosecutors get delay in case of Barry Freundel, the rabbi charged with voyeurism <http://link.washingtonpost.com/544d41923b35d04a5290184026jyv.306c/VLloG8PoCuVz9VNkAdb75>
Keith L. Alexander
Prosecutors investigating the case of the Orthodox rabbi charged with secretly videotaping nude women as they prepared for a ritual bath asked a D.C. Superior Court judge Friday for additional time as they continue to review and gather evidence in the case.Read full article &gt;&gt; [Read full article »] <http://link.washingtonpost.com/544d41923b35d04a5290184026jyv.306c/VLloG8PoCuVz9VNkAdb75> 

U-Va. rape survivor, author questions Rolling Stone story <http://link.washingtonpost.com/544d41923b35d04a5290184026jyv.306c/VLloG8PoCuVz9VNuA33d9>
T. Rees Shapiro
CHARLOTTESVILLE — During her freshman year at the University of Virginia in 1984, Liz Seccuro was gang raped at a date party at the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity here.Seccuro wrote a memoir decades later about facing her main attacker and became a prominent sexual assault awareness advocate and speaker on violence against college women.Read full article &gt;&gt; [Read full article »] <http://link.washingtonpost.com/544d41923b35d04a5290184026jyv.306c/VLloG8PoCuVz9VNuA33d9> 

‘Returning citizens’ are still one of D.C.’s most marginalized and motivated groups <http://link.washingtonpost.com/544d41923b35d04a5290184026jyv.306c/VLloG8PoCuVz9VNvAc103>
Clinton Yates
“I was unfocused. I was very violent at one point, and they taught me how to conduct myself, as a human being, as a father, as a man and a citizen of Washington, D.C.” Those were the words of Anthony Irving, speaking on stage at Busboys and Poets in Brookland on Tuesday night as part of an event called #ReturningCitizensMatter. It was an intimate affair in the new space’s Pearl Bailey room, but the stories told resonated strongly among the three dozen people present.Read full article &gt;&gt; [Read full article »] <http://link.washingtonpost.com/544d41923b35d04a5290184026jyv.306c/VLloG8PoCuVz9VNvAc103> 

D.C. streetcar misses another deadline. Long-delayed project won’t open next week. <http://link.washingtonpost.com/544d41923b35d04a5290184026jyv.306c/VLloG8PoCuVz9VOAA8290>
Michael Laris
Calling passenger safety the “number one priority,” D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser’s new transportation chief, Leif A. Dormsjo, on Friday backed away from a pledge by his predecessors to open a long delayed streetcar line next week.Read full article &gt;&gt; [Read full article »] <http://link.washingtonpost.com/544d41923b35d04a5290184026jyv.306c/VLloG8PoCuVz9VOAA8290> 

Smoke coming from Metro tracks again, this time at Twinbrook <http://link.washingtonpost.com/544d41923b35d04a5290184026jyv.306c/VLloG8PoCuVz9VOBA287e>
Julie Zauzmer
Updated at 2:31 p.m.Firefighters briefly responded to smoke coming from Metro tracks just north of the Twinbrook station on Friday afternoon.When they arrived, shortly after 1:30 p.m., Metro workers already had the situation under control, Montgomery County Fire Department spokesman Pete Piringer said. There was no fire, just smoke, Piringer said.Read full article &gt;&gt; [Read full article »] <http://link.washingtonpost.com/544d41923b35d04a5290184026jyv.306c/VLloG8PoCuVz9VOBA287e> 

Traffic, transit tips for the holiday weekend <http://link.washingtonpost.com/544d41923b35d04a5290184026jyv.306c/VLloG8PoCuVz9VORA334a>
Robert Thomson
The Capital Weather Gang predicts a chilly weekend, but there’s nothing in the forecast that would interfere with travel plans through the D.C. region. There may be some extra traffic on Friday afternoon and evening, but this is not a big getaway weekend.Read full article &gt;&gt; [Read full article »] <http://link.washingtonpost.com/544d41923b35d04a5290184026jyv.306c/VLloG8PoCuVz9VORA334a> 

‘American Sniper,’ ‘A Most Violent Year’ and other movies, reviewed <http://link.washingtonpost.com/544d41923b35d04a5290184026jyv.306c/VLloG8PoCuVz9VOaA53aa>
Macy Freeman
In this week’s new releases, Bradley Cooper stars in the Academy Award-nominated “American Sniper,” a film based on Navy SEAL Chief Chris Kyle's memoir.  Jessica Chastain and Oscar Isaac star in "A Most Violent Year."Read full article &gt;&gt; [Read full article »] <http://link.washingtonpost.com/544d41923b35d04a5290184026jyv.306c/VLloG8PoCuVz9VOaA53aa> 

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