Gov. Ralph Northam has declared a state of emergency for Charlottesville and parts of Virginia surrounding Washington, D.C., urging people to not participate in the Unite the Right 2 rally or counterprotests this Sunday. By declaring a state of emergency, Gov. Northam has authorized the spending of $2 million for state police, the Virginia National Guard and other resources.
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This fall, construction on a Washington Boulevard trail connecting pedestrians and cyclists to another trail spanning Arlington Boulevard and Walter Reed Drive will be complete.
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The 17-year-old teen accused of killing a Reston couple, the parents of his teenage girlfriend, wrote and sent a confession letter to a friend attending the Kellar School, formerly the Dominion School, from the Fairfax County Juvenile Detention Center. The teen will go before a judge next week.
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Veronica Youngblood, the 33-year-old charged with killing her 5-year-old daughter and injuring another child in McLean, waived her right to remain silent and confessed to the crime. Youngblood was divorced from her 5-year-old’s father and was supposed to move to Sedalia, Missouri, with him and the child this month.
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The company behind Virginia’s toll lanes, Transurban, and the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute are working together to develop a Motorcycle Evaluation Challenge, or MotoTEC, in which technology companies are invited to develop software that would make the roads safer for motorcyclists. Virginia Tech’s Ballston research center donated $400,000 to the cause.
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Herndon-Reston Indivisible, a community group opposing President Trump, has gathered at Wiehle-Reston for the past 23 nights as part of the Kremlin Annex protest, which began after Trump seemed to believe that Russian President Vladimir Putin did not tamper with the most recent U.S. presidential election.
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BH Media Group, which owns The Roanoke Times, is suing its former Virginia Tech football beat reporter, Andy Bitter, under the accusation that Bitter was using one of the company’s Twitter accounts to help with his new job at The Athletic.
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