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City Officials Promote Free HIV Testing; Red Line Rider Sues Metro After Crash
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City Officials Promote Free HIV Testing
The D.C. Council recognized National HIV Testing Day yesterday by publicizing free testing with an event at the John A. Wilson Building. Several advocacy groups joined Council Chairman Vincent C. Gray (D) and Council member David A. Catania (I-At Large) for the event.
They set up a booth for passersby in front of the government building on Pennsylvania Avenue NW.
At least 3 percent of the city's population, or more than 15,000 residents, are living with HIV/AIDS, according to the city's HIV/AIDS Administration. The threshold for a "generalized or severe" epidemic is 1 percent.
-- Nikita Stewart
COURTS
Red Line Rider Sues Metro After Crash
A survivor of last week's Metrorail crash filed a $1 million lawsuit against the transit agency yesterday, seeking damages for alleged negligence.
Annette Williams-Lea was riding in the second car of the Red Line train that ran into the back of a train stopped north of the Fort Totten Metro station. The suit, filed in D.C. Superior Court, says that Williams-Lea, 45, sustained orthopedic injuries from her neck to her hip when she was thrown from her seat.
The lawsuit is believed to be the second filed since the crash. More are expected.
-- Chris L. Jenkins
