It was a great year for Washington dish, even if some of the craziest stories (Dick Cheney's hunting accident! Patrick Kennedy's Ambien-induced midnight drive! Mark Foley's page problems!) were so hot they got sucked off the gossip columns and onto the front pages. Plenty of wacky behavior by our local stars and our visiting VIPS to go around. What do you think was the story of 2006?

Dick Cheney's openly gay daughter Mary announces she's pregnant and plans to raise the child with her longtime partner.

Allen Iverson's bad day in D.C.: His Rolls Royce gets ticketed downtown while he was being deposed by a guy who claims the baller's security beat him up in a nightclub.

Hilary Duff calls boyfriend Joel Madden's hometown of Waldorf, Md., "ghetto"; later fires D.C. drummer Shauney Baby for stealing her spotlight.

Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney attacks a Capitol Hill police officer with her cellphone when he fails to recognize her with a new hairdo.

Jenna, Jenna, Jenna!: The blonde First Twin is psyched out by a fake proposal from her boyfriend; ditches her D.C. school teaching job for a Panama internship; parties in Argentina; and gets falsely linked in the tabs to a Buenos Aires hottie.

Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes cut a swath through D.C. -- do the hokey pokey at Six Flags with Dan Snyder and party on the Fed Ex Field; later return the favor by inviting the Skins owner to their Italian wedding.

Karl Rove and Madeleine Albright have a historic face off in court -- when they end up on the same jury.

Entourages collide, and bottles of bub go flying, when Diddy brings a posse of 40 to downtown club Lima.

Dozens of reporters chase Borat through the streets of Washington as he takes his guerilla press conference from the beleaguered embassy of Kazakhstan to the White House.

Rapper DMX claims a Maryland woman who bore his child "raped" him after a night of drinking; she sues him for defamation.

In an astonishing couture coincidence, Laura Bush shows up to the Kennedy Center Honors wearing the same dress as three other women.

Jessica Simpson forgets the words to "9 to 5" and breaks down onstage at the Kennedy Center during her tribute to Dolly Parton.

K-Fed steps into a wrestling ring in D.C. to tell the world: "My name is not K-Fed!"

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