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FanDuel Fuels Record Totals For Washington D.C. Betting In May

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July 3, 2024

FanDuel Fuels Record Totals For Washington D.C. Betting In May

FanDuel‘s strong May numbers in its first full month as the D.C. Lottery’s primary sports betting operator fueled a record-setting month as the rest of the district’s operator figures were released Monday.

Overall, the nation’s capital reported all-time highs of $5.4 million in sports betting revenue and $35.4 million in handle. It was the second consecutive month with a record handle after FanDuel made an immediate impact on April’s numbers when it replaced GambetDC as the district’s primary operator.

May’s operator revenue was over $1 million more than the previous high of $4.4 million set in November 2021.

The 15.4% hold ranked 14th in 49 months of wagering in Washington D.C. It’s currently the highest among 29 states and jurisdictions with commercial sports betting for May, with only Arizona, Illinois, and Kentucky yet to report.

The district saw an all-time monthly high of $544,600 in tax receipts, and FanDuel’s entrance has put the year-to-date total of $1.4 million in tax revenue $513,300 ahead of the 2023 total through five months.

BetMGM Also Enjoys Strong May

FanDuel accounted for 84% of the district’s handle and 89% of the revenue, as it posted a 16.4% hold on $29.7 million in handle to reap $4.9 million in winnings. Both figures would have ranked first in all-time Washington D.C. monthly totals.

Despite finishing third in handle with $1.6 million, BetMGM pipped second in revenue among all operators with $217,400, posting a 13.9% win rate from wagers placed at and around Nationals Park.

Caesars, which operates at Capital One Arena, had a more modest 5.4% hold as it collected $145,800 in winnings from $2.7 million worth of wagers. FanDuel’s retail sportsbook at Audi Field — home of DC United — had a 5.3% hold on $284,000 in bets placed for $15,100 in revenue.

Among Class B licensees, both of Grand Central’s locations finished in the red as bettors came out a combined $5,775 ahead on $192,400 in handle. Sports & Social had an astounding 49.2% hold in keeping $15,700 ahead of the $32,000 wagered, while the Cloakroom topped $10,000 in revenue for the year after winning $2,600 and posting a 26.2% hold on $9,800 in handle.

Despite the recent upswing in betting fortunes across the district with FanDuel’s entrance, bigger changes still are likely to come. The Washington D.C. Council included the Sports Wagering Amendment Act of 2024 in its Fiscal Year 2025 budget, which would allow numerous sports betting apps to operate in the district.

FanDuel’s entrance came by way of being subcontracted through Intralot, whose performance in the sports betting space was widely derided and criticized by both the betting public and local legislators in the district.

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Armed carjacker shot by US Marshals in DC, investigation underway

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1 hour ago

July 6, 2024

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Armed carjacker shot by US Marshals in DC, investigation underway

Armed carjacking suspect shot by US Marshals

Agents from the Metropolitan Police Department’s Internal Affairs Bureau are investigating a shooting involving U.S. Marshals that took place early Friday in Northwest D.C.

WASHINGTON – Agents from the Metropolitan Police Department’s Internal Affairs Bureau are investigating a shooting involving U.S. Marshals that took place early Friday in Northwest D.C.

The incident occurred around 1:15 a.m.

Deputy U.S. Marshals, according to an MPD report, were parked in separate vehicles in the 2100 block of 11 Street, Northwest, when the suspect exited a vehicle and approached one of the Marshals, pointing a handgun in an apparent carjacking attempt.

The Marshal responded by drawing his service weapon and firing several shots at the suspect. A second Marshal from another vehicle also fired his service weapon, the report states.

The suspect, identified as 18-year-old Kentrell Flowers of Southeast, was transported to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

No law enforcement officers were injured during the incident.

Flowers has been arrested and charged with armed carjacking, carrying a pistol without a license, and possession of a large-capacity ammunition feeding device.

A firearm was recovered at the scene.

The United States Attorney’s Office will independently review the facts and evidence of the case.

Anyone with information about this case is asked to contact the police at 202-727-9099.

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Friday, the week’s hottest day in D.C., was humid, too

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July 5, 2024

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Friday, the week’s hottest day in D.C., was humid, too

Friday could not be blamed for its searing heat and steamy humidity. After all, it is summertime, it is the District, and this is the hottest month of our hottest season.

Perhaps 100 degrees proved the key figure in any serious discussion of the day’s conditions. In D.C., perhaps one of the more generous ways of responding to Friday’s high temperature of 98 was to note that was not 100.

Even at only 98 degrees, however, Friday was the hottest day here since June 26, when it was 99. It was also 9 degrees hotter than the average high — 89 degrees — for July 5 in the capital.

It is true that the actual temperature did fall a bit short of three digits, a level that generally wins instant acceptance as thermally severe. But the feels-like temperature, also an important characteristic of conditions, cleared that hurdle with ease.

For a couple of hours Friday afternoon, the heat index reached 108 degrees. It stood at 108 degrees just before 3 p.m. and just before 5 p.m. And when it was not 108 at two other afternoon hours, it fell only a degree below that at 107.

Memories of attending the fireworks in Washington on the Fourth of July, often include recollections of the weather. The Fourth on the Washington Monument grounds has often been a day that is celebrated amid substantial swelter.

But the Fifth, which was Friday, surpassed it in discomfort to become the sultriest day of the week and month thus far.

The high temperature on the Fourth was only 94, warm, certainly, but perhaps not the sort of heat that residents or tourists will incorporate in their tales of enduring the severity of Washington weather.

And the heat index apparently did not reach the three-digit mark Thursday, according to available National Weather Service data.

So if the Fourth was the day to inspire, perhaps Friday was the time to perspire.

But, it is difficult to conceive of conditions that differ greatly from those of Friday.

It is summer and this is Washington, and we are surrounded, immersed and enveloped in the time and the place — for hotter, or for perhaps slightly less hot.

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Vandals tear down Gaza hostage photos outside of Rep. Brad Schneider's Capitol Hill office

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July 5, 2024

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Vandals tear down Gaza hostage photos outside of Rep. Brad Schneider's Capitol Hill office

WASHINGTON — Vandals on July 4 tore photos of hostages in Gaza off the wall outside of the Capitol Hill office of Rep. Brad Schneider, D-Illlinois, his office said on Friday.

A photo Schneider posted on the social media website X showed how the ripped-off pictures littered the hallway of the Cannon House Office Building. The hostages were kidnapped Oct. 7 in Hamas terrorist attacks in Israel.

The vandalism comes in the wake of protesters loudly demonstrating outside of Schneider’s Highland Park home in the middle of the night last weekend.

Schneider is one of the most pro-Israel members of Congress.

Schneider said in a statement, “My Capitol office was vandalized yesterday in a vile act of hate in which the posters of the more than 100 people still held hostage in Gaza (including 8 Americans) were ripped from the wall, shredded and tossed across the hallway. This was a shameful act on any day, but especially on July 4, our country’s Independence Day. Sadly, it was but one of many hateful, un-American actions that took place across the country on the day we celebrate freedom and democracy.

“I’ve been disgusted by the videos and reports of individuals calling July 4th a ‘terrorist holiday’ and burning American flags. It’s not just happening at my office in Washington, D.C.,” Schneider said.

“More than 700 miles from the Capitol, my home was targeted last weekend at 2:30AM by approximately 50 masked demonstrators banging drums, blowing horns and screaming antisemitic chants. The same groups that were at my house earlier in the week marched through Chicago on July 4th, not calling for peace, but rather condemning the United States of America,” he said.

“These actions don’t advance peace. Instead, they play directly into the hands of Hamas terrorists enabling them to continue to hold hostage not only those they kidnapped from Israel, but all civilians in Gaza as well.”

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