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Good morning Hyattsville! Your connection to what's happening around town is here. Take a sip of coffee and read on. ☕️️

In today's newsletter:

  • How a Hyattsville backyard became a vital DIY music venue
  • Hyattsville woman's $5 ticket turns into a $50,000 surprise
  • Hyattsville teen killed amid a violent week across D.C.

Also on today's calendar: Admissions Open House and 9 more events.

Today's riddle: Why did the cookie go to the hospital? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

  • Friday: High clouds and pleasant, with a high of 77 and low of 51 degrees.
  • Saturday: Sun through high clouds, temps: high: 74, low: 58.
  • Sunday: Rain, with a high of 68 and low of 62 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

1. Homes Rule: In D.C., Music Has Always Found a Home in Ordinary Houses (washingtoncitypaper.com) — A Hyattsville homeowner and local hip-hop artist has turned her backyard into the Secret Garden, a recurring DIY show space just over the D.C. line that now anchors part of the region's house-concert scene. The story traces how house venues across D.C. and Maryland are closing, adapting, or moving outward, with Hyattsville emerging as one of the places keeping intimate, community-driven performances alive.
   

2. Hyattsville Woman Scores $50K Scratch-Off Prize With Late-Night Ticket (shorenewsnetwork.com) — A Hyattsville resident just turned a late-night scratch-off into a $50,000 top-prize win, jolting her whole household awake with the news. She bought the $5 THE PRICE IS RIGHT ticket in Largo, routinely tracks games with remaining top prizes, and now joins a short list of big winners while four $50,000 prizes are still unclaimed statewide.
   

3. Teens accused in rash of burglaries, robberies and shootings across the District this week (washingtontimes.com) — A 17-year-old girl from Hyattsville, identified as Daniyah Ford, was fatally shot in D.C.'s Petworth neighborhood during a weekend incident that also injured a man. Her death caps a violent week in the District dominated by juvenile-involved robberies, burglaries, and shootings that police say spanned multiple neighborhoods and left another teen dead.
   

4. ICE arrests accused illegal immigrant gang leader in Maryland (wjla.com) — Federal immigration agents recently arrested an alleged high-ranking MS-13 leader in Hyattsville, an individual ICE says is on the Justice Department's Terror Watchlist. Officials describe his presence as a direct threat and outline a long history of immigration violations and criminal charges stretching from Texas to the D.C. region.
   

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Ok Hyattsville! So now you're in the loop about what's happening today. Thanks for reading, and see you in your inbox next time! Oh -- and if you like what you're reading, invite a friend to Patch AM!

-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: "Why did the cookie go to the hospital?" — Because he felt crummy. (Thank you Sanda J. for sending it in!)
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