Mayor Muriel Bowser is proposing more than $120 million in her new budget to fight homelessness. It includes building new shelters, and one of them is already under construction. As News4’s Mark Segraves reports, some of the men building the new shelter currently live in the old one.
More Metro trains will run on the Fourth of July for riders who attend the fireworks display on the National Mall, Metro announced Friday. On Sunday, July 4, Metrorail service will operate from 8 a.m. to 11 p.m. During the day, trains will run on a regular weekend schedule, every 12 minutes on the Red Line and every 15 minutes…
Donnelly said the worker was trapped in what the department calls a pancake collapse underneath three floors of debris with only eight inches of space around him. A K-9 sniffed out the spot where the man was closed in, which helped firefighters get to work on his removal. A special operations team sawed through layers of rubble for more than an hour to rescue a construction worker from the wreckage in the 900 block of Kennedy Street NW, Fire Chief John Donnelly said.
Crews used chain saws, electric saws, pry bars and manual labor to meticulously cut out the rubble.
Donnelly said the man is very lucky to be alive.
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Some D.C. restaurants aren’t waiting to see if the minimum wage for tipped employees law changes. They are paying their waiters and bartenders what they call a living wage, and, in some cases, doing away with tips. For generations, bartenders and waiters have worked for tips, with their employers only paying about a third of the traditional minimum wage..