On Wednesday August 5th just prior to 8 pm, Bobby Lee Cannon, age 35 of Southeast DC, was killed with one shot to the face from an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle inside unit #2 of the small brick building at 2500 41st Street NW in Glover Park. Jeremiah Greene, age 21 of Alexandria VA, was arrested at the scene and charged with murder. Nineteen DC Metropolitan Police Department officers plus EMS responded to the scene, there was no use of force, no sign of life, and Cannon was pronounced dead. Two...

It sounds like a low-budget 1950’s sci-fi horror movie, but no – the Invasion of the Spotted Lanternfly is real. This invasive insect from Asia breached the shores of the United States in 2014 on a shipment of stone from China and was first seen in Berks County, Pennsylvania. The destructive bug has appeared in large numbers in the last couple of years in Washington DC and in particular in Glover Park. Technically, it’s not a fly – it’s a plant hopper, though it has large, distinctive red...

Shah’s Halal Food will open soon in the space vacated by Sprig and Sprout almost one year ago at 2317 Wisconsin Avenue NW in Glover Park. Sprig and Sprout, a popular Vietnamese restaurant in the neighborhood for 13 years, departed due to legal and operational issues with the owner of the building. Shah’s is a fast food chain restaurant with 13 locations in the DC metro area (11 Virginia, 1 Maryland, and 1 DC) and 130 locations nationwide plus in the UK, Canada and Sweden. They also operate a...