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A venerable Burlington coffee shop returns under new ownership this week after shutting down last fall as COVID-19 cases continued to rise. Muddy Waters, a staple at 184 Main St. for more than a quarter-century, reopens at 7:30 a.m. Tuesday, according to Tierney Munger, who has worked at the coffee shop for about a decade. She and two partners who own the nearby business Manhattan Pizza and Pub, Sam Tolstoi and Matt Small, bought Muddy Waters from longtime owner Mark Mackillop. The sale was first reported by Seven Days. Munger told the Burlington Free Press on Monday morning that she was “M...

Montgomery County State’s Attorney John McCarthy speaks on the accusations against an off-duty Pentagon officer. (WTOP/Matt Small) There will be no bond for the off-duty Pentagon police officer charged in the fatal shootings of two men in Takoma Park, Maryland. Montgomery County District Judge Eric Nee ordered David Hall Dixon of Takoma Park to remain behind bars. The 40-year-old is charged with two counts of second-degree murder, two counts of using a handgun in commission of a felony, and reckless endangerment in the deaths of Dominique Williams, 32, of Hyattsville and James Lionel Johnso...

Mark Mackillop, who owned the business for 26 years. Munger, 31, who will be the managing partner, has been behind the coffee shop's bar for 10 years. Mackillop first asked whether she'd be interested in buying the business a couple of years ago, she said; she was, but they agreed to take the process slowly. "Then COVID hit," she said. "Mark was ready to move on to something different, and I was really fortunate to be here at that time to say, 'Yes, I want this business.'" Munger approached her friends Small, 37, and Tolstoi, 35, with the opportunity, and they quickly agreed. "It was re...