If Fairfax County wanted the FBI headquarters relocated to the Virginia suburbs, we certainly wouldn't line up to stop them. more ›

WTOP reports that Federal Aviation Administration chief J. Randolph Babbitt -- the man in charge of safety in the air -- has taken a leave of absence after having been caught driving while intoxicated in Fairfax over the weekend. more ›

This afternoon, a Fairfax County jury found Carmela Dela Rosa guilty of first-degree murder, determining that clearly understood what she was doing when she dropped her 2-year-old granddaughter off a sixth-story elevated bridge at Tysons Corner Center last year. more ›

Less than 48 hours after opening statements, prosecutors have rested in the murder trial of Carmela Dela Rosa, who stands accused of dropping her two-year-old granddaughter to her death from a Tysons Corner elevated walkway. more ›

The trial for a Fairfax woman who stands accused of dropping her two-year-old granddaughter off an elevated walkway in Tysons Corner is scheduled to begin today. more ›

While we don't want to undersell the ferocity of this week's storms that have plagued the region and claimed the lives of three people, there's probably no better evidence as to precisely how much water has fallen over the last few days than this video of a guy tubing down normally busy Route 29 in Fairfax. more ›

Fairfax County police are searching for Johnny D. Guillen Pimentel, a 40-year-old man who they believe is connected to a string of assaults committed against women inside various retail outlets this summer. more ›

The number of women who have reported being stabbed or slashed by a man in Fairfax County has now increased to nine, after three more women came forward. more ›

In early June, the Washington Post’s Tara Bahrampour wrote a story about a Starbucks in a Falls Church strip mall that had become a remarkably diverse enclave for local immigrants from countries like Morocco, Egypt and Somalia. On Friday, Bahrampour reported that shortly after the story ran, all the outdoor seating which had been central to the immigrants’ gathering had been removed from the Starbucks. more ›

Albert Haynesworth has settled one half of his legal troubles: assault charges against the Redskins defensive tackle were dismissed this morning, thanks to a Virginia law which allows two parties to settle when the charge is a misdemeanor, the Post reports. more ›

Fairfax County isn't kidding around when it comes to cracking down on drug use at its concert venues, which, more often than not, attract the kind of crowd who really like to do drugs before, while and after watching a concert. more ›

We linked to some photographs of Fairfax Urban Search and Rescue team members helping with Japanese recovery efforts in this morning's roundup, but this Department of Defense footage of the local rescuers making their way through the Japanese port city of Ofunato, meeting with the mayor of the city and searching through the massive rubble, is incredibly humbling. more ›

911 is a joke, indeed: according to a WTOP report, Verizon never informed Montgomery, Fairfax and Prince George's Counties officials about technical issues which led to busy signals on its emergency hotlines at various points over the past few weeks. Verizon Vice President James McLaughlin told the Maryland Public Service Commission that the telecommunications company took an internal approach to fix the technical issues, thinking that they could fix it before anyone really noticed. Of course, since most counties usually have alternate hotlines that they can inform residents to use when 911 is out of service, that explanation doesn't really hold a whole lot of water. The Federal Communications Commission is now reportedly looking into the issue. Hey, at least these jurisdictions had people on the other end to answer once callers could get through, unlike some cities we know. more ›

Sheesh, what's going on in Virginia? Yesterday, a single squirrel was able to cut the power to hundreds of homes and several traffic lights in Vienna; today, 911 systems in both Fairfax and Arlington Counties are temporarily down. Email alerts received by readers in both jurisdictions state that both systems are "experiencing intermittent problems," and if you need to report an emergency in either county, you should call 703-741-3035 (Arlington) or 703-691-2233 (Fairfax). more ›

It's becoming somewhat of a token addition to stories involving struck pedestrians around the Washington region -- whether or not the person struck was utilizing a crosswalk or not when they were hit. But when digesting stories which involve a pedestrian incident, it's important to remember that there are some places that just aren't that walkable. more ›

Fire should not be a problem during a blizzard. Fire beats electrical wires, snow puts out fire, salt covers snow: It's the paper-rock-scissors order of nature. Yet ABC7 reports that the snow hampered firefighters, not the fire itself, during a blizzard blaze in Great Falls last night. Firefighters trudged in waist-deep snow up a -- wtf is up with a mile-long driveway! -- and arrived in time to safely escort the residents away with their vehicles and some other stuff. Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Deputy Chief Andrew Duke told ABC7 that the firefighters were unable to get water-pumping equipment to the house in time. One would think he would continue by saying, "Which is okay, because it was snowing, so the snow put out the fire, nbd." One would think. more ›

The Washington Post has all the details about the $300 million that Montgomery and Fairfax counties stand to receive from the federal government to alleviate soon-to-be major traffic problems. As part of the government's BRAC (Base Realignment and Closure) decisions in the past year, Walter Reed Army Medical Center and the Bethesda Naval Hospital were consolidated, adding thousands of personnel to the Bethesda location and doubling the number of visitors to a million per year. In Virginia, thousands of employees are being moved from near the Pentagon out to Fort Belvoir, which Rep. Jim Moran (D-Va) said, "will generate rush hours of three to four hours longer." more ›

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Sure, Tiger may have missed the cut for the first time in forever, but a much more interesting local story has developed in Scotland. Steve Marino, a Fairfax native who began swinging a golf club in his Northern Virginia backyard at the age of three, sat atop the leaderboard of the British Open as third-round play teed off this morning at Turnberry. Marino, who shot a solid 67 on Thursday and holed a big eagle putt on 17 yesterday, was a four-year letterman at the University of Virginia and played junior golf all over the region. Looks like Fred Funk now has some serious competition for the title of best professional golfer from the D.C. area. UPDATE: Or maybe not. It seems as if Marino has dropped five strokes in the first five holes this morning and now sits tied for tenth at even par. The chances of Marino winning the tournament are likely dead, but hey, at least he can say he led the Open once. very much alive, though, as he's made a small charge and is back to one off the lead at 2-under through 12. more ›

Forty young men and women chosen as Intel Science Talent Search finalists gathered in the Great Hall of the National Academy of Sciences to compete for more than $500,000 in awards and scholarships to support careers in science -- including one top prize, a $100,000 scholarship. Two area budding young scientists, both hailing from Thomas Jefferson High School for Science & Technology in Fairfax, Virginia, are among the finalists. Each finalist picks up at least $5,000 in scholarship money and an Intel-powered laptop. more ›

The truck inspection unit is among hundreds of program cuts that County Executive Anthony H. Griffin has proposed as part of a $3.3 billion spending plan that includes layoffs, a freeze in the school allocation and an increase in the property tax rate. more ›

We first learned last month that Hilton Hotels Corp. was planning to pick up and move from their Beverly Hills digs to the D.C. area; now the Washington Business Journal has the scoop again that Fairfax will officially be their new home. Both Maryland and Virginia had been vying for the business, which will create 300 new jobs in the area, but Fairfax and the state beat out Maryland by offering Hilton a $4.6 million incentive package. Not bad considering Hilton plans to invest about $17 million upon their arrival. The exact location of the headquarters isn't known yet. more ›

So this is interesting: Bloomberg did a story on how no one can agree on the size of the crowd for the McCain/Palin rally in Fairfax last week. We were following the story after some controversy broke out over the initial location for the event, and went with the New York Times's number of 15,000, which the paper said it got from "The Fairfax City fire marshal." But the McCain/Palin camp is claiming that 23,000 people were there, while Marc Fisher from the WaPo is saying he counted 8,000, and now Bloomberg reports this:

Fairfax City Fire Marshal Andrew Wilson said his office did not supply that number to the campaign and could not confirm it. Wilson, in an interview, said the fire department does not monitor attendance at outdoor events.

The New York Times is reporting that the official estimate of the crowd that gathered at a park in Fairfax this morning for the McCain rally was 15,000, well over twice the number of people who could have attended had the event been held at its original, controversial venue at Fairfax High School. The McCain campaign told supporters yesterday that the event had been moved because the high school venue could only hold 6,500 people. Some Fairfax residents and officials expressed disapproval that the Fairfax County school system should never have agreed to host a political rally during school hours, since it violated the school district's own policy against such events. more ›