A Metro Transit Police officer and Fairfax resident was charged with allegedly colluding with ISIS. He was discovered in an FBI sting operation.
(ABC 7 News)
A federal judge denied approval for the construction of the Purple Line light-rail in Maryland that would connect Bethesda to College Park. The judge based his decision on the Metro’s current maintenance and safety issues and a potential decline in passengers.
(NBC 4 Washington)
Stafford County Public Schools will adopt the Versatrans My Stop app in the upcoming school year. The app allows parents to track the GPS location of their children’s bus.
(Fredericksburg Today)
A new fundraising campaign seeks to encourage Khizr Khan, the father of an Army captain killed in Iraq in 2004 who spoke out against Donald Trump at the Democratic National Convention last week, to run for the Virginia House of Delegates. Khan is a Charlottesville-based lawyer.
(The Washington Post)