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Students brawl at Gallery Place Metro station (Video)

A brawl Friday afternoon at the Gallery Place-Chinatown Metro station in downtown D.C. involved a large crowd of young people and led to a handful of arrests, authorities say.

Tags: Fox 5, metro, Metro Transit Police

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Metro: empty train had smoking brake issue

Metro says a train that wasn't in service experienced a mechanical problem at the Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport station that led to delays.

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Metro finds bed bugs in its D.C. headquarters

Metro is working to exterminate bed bugs that have been discovered at its headquarters in downtown Washington.

Tags: The Washington Examiner, bed bugs, metro,

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Metro considering new round of anti-jihad ads

The organization behind controversial anti-jihad Metro ads is preparing to launch a new campaign using images of the Sept. 11 attacks next to verses from the Quran.

Tags: alicia lozano, Metro ad, Pam Geller, American Freedom Defense Initiative, Council on American-Islamic Relations

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Metro-riding Nats fans stranded after 13-inning game

The Nationals and the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority don't have an agreement in place to ensure trains will be running in the rare event a game runs past midnight.

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More Metro staff for Monday morning

Following a computer system crash that affected riders twice in 12 hours over the weekend, Metro says it will have extra staff ready as it continues to investigate the cause.

Tags: metro, colleen kelleher,

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Man killed in shootout with Metro police in Md.

Officials say a Metro Transit Police detective shot and killed a man in exchange of gunfire while investigating an attempted abduction in Prince George's County.

Tags: Metro Transit Police

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Metro: Don't expect A/C 'perfection' on scorcher days

The transit agency has been making a push to fix and maintain the cooling systems on all rail cars, specifically the 1000 and 5000 series rail cars. Forty percent of condensers and evaporators on the 1000 series cars have been replaced, and 78 percent of condensers and evaporators on the 5000 series have been replaced.

Tags: metro, heat advisory,

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Metro employee on unpaid leave after guilty plea

Tags: Ronald W. Taylor, D.C. Superior Court, Metrobus, The Washington Examiner

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Metro power outage causes problems

Metro passengers trying to get home late Thursday and early Friday found it took hours longer than normal because of a power outage at Metro's control center and scheduled maintenance on the rail lines.

Tags: colleen kelleher, metro, power outage

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