The Night Note: 06/08/2010

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The following stories have been hand-selected by the Assignment Desk at News4:

Two Bitten by Fox-Like Creature
Five reports of unprovoked attacks by a gray, fox-like animal in Signal Hill Park have left two people bitten and receiving rabies treatment. Following the attacks, the Prince William Health Department and the Manassas Park Police Department are reminding residents to avoid close interactions with wild animals.  (InsideNoVa.com)
 
Three Arrested in Leesburg Massage Parlor Bust
Leesburg Police arrested three people June 4 after searching a massage parlor on Cardinal Park Drive. Employees of the Cardinal Clinic Center – Pung Cha Zorn, 64, of Ellicott City, Md.; Young Jo Truman, 44, of Laurel, Md.; and Pyoung Un Roy, 49, of Annandale – were all charged, Leesburg Police spokesman Officer Chris Jones said. All three were charged with residing in a bawdy place, while Truman and Roy were also charged with unlawful acts of a massage therapist. (Loudoun Times)
 

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Helen Thomas Replacement
Another veteran Washington journalist has been chosen as the graduation speaker for Walt Whitman High School. CBS's Bob Schieffer, moderator for Face the Nation, will fill in at the Bethesda school's June 14 ceremony. Schieffer is filling the spot left vacant by columnist and former White House reporter Helen Thomas. The school cancelled her appearance following her controversial remarks about Israel. (WTOP)
 
D.C. General’s Family Shelter Back at Capacity
The emergency family shelter at D.C. General is back at full capacity. In March, the District had faced massive overcrowding at the shelter in which mothers and children slept on hallway floors and in a cafeteria. At one point, the shelter reached 200 families. According to internal e-mails, the Department of Human Services (DHS) began moving families into housing units after it faced the threat of a lawsuit by the Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless. (Wasgington City Paper)
 
Dog Killer Sentenced
A Brunswick man who flung a Jefferson woman's pet Chihuahua over a bridge after an altercation outside her house last year was sentenced Monday to four months in jail by a county judge who said his action was inexcusable. Circuit Judge G. Edward Dwyer Jr. said David Michael Beers, 35, made a deliberate decision to take his anger at Caisha Wantz out on her 4-pound teacup Chihuahua, Zoey, following an earlier argument with Wantz and her husband, Tim, in their driveway. (Frederick News-Post)
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