District Briefing

D.C. COUNCIL

Barry Leaves ICU After Kidney Transplant

D.C. Council member Marion Barry (D-Ward 8) was moved from intensive care to a regular room, his doctor said yesterday.

"He's doing very well," said Clive O. Callender, who performed a kidney transplant on the former mayor Friday.

Barry may be discharged from Howard University Hospital as early as Thursday, said Ron Harris, a hospital spokesman. Barry's donor, Kim Dickens, 47, also remains in recovery, Harris said.

Barry had been on dialysis for several months after hypertension and diabetes wore down his kidneys, he has said. A spokeswoman for Barry, Natalie Williams, said she expects Barry and Dickens to speak to the media this week.

-- Hamil R. Harris

POLICE

1st District Station Makes Way for Crime Lab

The 1st District police station will move next month, making way for a $220 million forensics laboratory at the old location, officials said yesterday.

The station is relocating from the 400 block of Fourth Street SW to the former Anthony A. Bowen Elementary School in the 100 block of M Street SW. Cmdr. David K. Kamperin said that the move should be completed by March 16 and that services to residents will not be interrupted during the transition.

The vacated Fourth Street building will be converted to house a public health lab, the office of the chief medical examiner and the city's first crime laboratory. Currently, the FBI processes forensic evidence for the city. The facility is scheduled to open in 2011.

-- Theola Labbé-DeBose