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Stink Bugs Rejoice, Rapping Candidate, $6B Launch and Latest on Comet ISON

Plus, officer honored, halloween preparation and burn bans.

By Todd Richissin

We're going to go with only one government shutdown story in our daily digest today, and it stinks. See how some little annoying bugs — who may have faced a death sentence — have gotten an inept-government reprieve.

That leads our daily digest of news of note from around our Patches in Virginia and Washington, DC. More below.

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