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Rachel Smith, a teacher at the Chantilly Academy, was arrested on May 8 for for possession of methamphetamine. | ›› more

Fairfax County teacher charged with possessing methamphetamine

5/9/2008

Police arrested a Fairfax County Public Schools teacher Rachel Smith on Thursday for possession of methamphetamine. Smith, 32, teaches at the Chantilly Academy. She resides at 47170 Brasswood Place in Sterling. | 0 comments - ›› more ...

Church donation box thieves arrested

5/8/2008

Thanks to a television viewer’s tip, two Herndon brothers have been charged in the April 25 theft of donation box cash from St. Leo the Great Catholic Church in Fairfax City. | 0 comments - ›› more ...

Five injured in four-car crash

5/7/2008

Five people, including a state trooper, were treated for injuries following a four-vehicle crash on Interstate 66 in Centreville. The crash closed westbound lanes of I-66 near the northbound Route 28 exit for more than an hour Wednesday. | 0 comments - ›› more ...

Cell tower proposed at pool in Annandale

5/8/2008

An application with the county to install a 140-foot-tall cell phone and broadband wireless tower on property belonging to the Holmes Run Acres community pool in Annandale has a few neighbors concerned about the impact on property values as well as on their health. | 0 comments - ›› more ...

Fairfax City voters elect new council

5/7/2008

Voters in Fairfax City on Tuesday elected three new members to the six-seat city council and returned incumbent Mayor Robert Lederer to serve for a fourth consecutive term in office. | 0 comments - ›› more ...

Running for everyone

5/8/2008

Lori Alexander believes Congress does not represent average citizens | 0 comments - ›› more ...

'I don't feel like his death was senseless'

5/8/2008

Sue Garbarino reflects on how her husband's death has changed her family | 0 comments - ›› more ...

School board to contemplate cuts

5/8/2008

Teacher pay cuts and bigger classes may be in the future for Fairfax County Public Schools. | 0 comments - ›› more ...

Playing on a 'field of dreams'

5/8/2008

Northern Virginia Senior softball gives local seniors a chance to get out and play. The league has 25 teams, which play two games every Tuesday and Thursday morning. | 0 comments - ›› more ...

Executive Committee denies Loudoun County appeals

5/7/2008

The Virginia High School League's Executive Committee denied appeals from Loudoun Valley and Heritage high schools today, upholding the Redistricting and Reclassification Committee's decision to place those schools to the Northwest Region's Cedar Run District in 2009-10. Stone Bridge will remain a member of the Liberty District. | 0 comments - ›› more ...

Falls Church murder suspect apprehended

5/7/2008

The United States Marshals Service arrested Joshua S. Puryear. 21, of 8645 Lenfant Place in Manassas, who was wanted for the stabbing death of Harbi Adam in Falls Church on April 27. Puryear was captured in Washington, D.C., where he is being detained awaiting extradition to Fairfax County. | 0 comments - ›› more ...

For Dulles Rail, VA must share Metro fare

5/7/2008

A Virginia legislature that has been so far unable to agree on a way to solve its own transportation infrastructure problems will have to find a way to pay for Metro infrastructure as well, a daunting challenge in hard financial times. | 0 comments - ›› more ...

Funding fix for Route 7 proposed

5/7/2008

Board aims to keep widening project moving while trying to address some citizen concerns | 0 comments - ›› more ...

Lawmakers rev up for session on transportation

5/7/2008

Legislators will likely return to Richmond this summer for a special session on transportation. Their prime objective will be to figure out how the state should address a growing road maintenance deficit of $388 million that is expected to more than double by 2014. | 0 comments - ›› more ...

Board patches up transportation funding

5/7/2008

In July, Fairfax County will begin charging an additional real estate tax of 12 cents per $100 of assessed value on commercial and industrial properties to fund transportation. The new tax is estimated to bring in about $52 million per year. | 0 comments - ›› more ...

County to study prescription discount card

5/7/2008

The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors Monday ordered the formation of a work group to study the possible use of a discount prescription card program that would be available to county staff and residents. | 0 comments - ›› more ...

Building permits merit closer look

5/7/2008

The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors directed county staff to take a closer look at building permit requests from neighborhoods with a high number of complaints to the county's code enforcement strike team. | 0 comments - ›› more ...

Seismic event felt in Northern Virginia

5/6/2008

At 1:30 p.m. today, Northern Virginia residents felt the rumblings of a 1.8 magnitude earthquake. The quake originated in Annandale and was felt in Washington, D.C., Arlington, Springfield and Mount Vernon. Fairfax County Police received reports from multiple callers reporting an audible “boom” sound, followed by roughly four seconds of the earth rumbling. There are no reports of damage to property or injuries related to the incident at this time. | 0 comments - ›› more ...

Student charged with setting fire outside Fairfax High School

5/5/2008

A juvenile petition was obtained for a 16-year-old male Fairfax High School student for intentionally setting fire to some track and filed mats stored outdoors under an overhand area next to the field house at the school, 3501 Rebel Run in Fairfax City. | 0 comments - ›› more ...

Region basketball tourney moved to Robinson

5/5/2008

This afternoon, the Northern Region Council voted unanimously to move the Northern Region basketball semifinals and finals to Robinson Secondary School from George Mason University's Patriot Center, where it had been held for the past 14 years. This decision comes amid budget concerns and a low net income from this year's event. | 0 comments - ›› more ...

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