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Vol. I · No. 1Prolonging the Slow Death of NewspapersEst. 2026

Two More

nos 117 and 118

Check out the tone of this one. Paul Duggan (thanks, R Lake): A few hours after the gunshots yesterday, one of the victims lay on the ground where he died, in the littered courtyard of a boarded-up public housing complex.



A white sheet covered his body as D.C. homicide detectives stood with blood at their feet, holding notebooks and squinting in the late-morning sun. The other victim, also shot, had been taken to a hospital and was dead when he got there.



Count two more slayings in the nation's capital -- Nos. 117 and 118 of the year -- taking place just north of Union Station at the vacant, dilapidated Temple Courts high-rise and townhouses, an eyesore due to be razed as part of a…

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