Though the most significant repairs aren’t due to begin until sometime this fall, construction on the Arlington Memorial Bridge will begin after Memorial Day, the National Park Service says. Two lanes and one sidewalk will be temporarily closed to make room for heavy equipment.
(WTOP)
Ahead of the planned meeting with President Trump next month, North Korea’s Kim Jong Un has used explosives to destroy the Punggye-ri nuclear test site.
(WJLA)
The United Nations’ “Mandela Rules” state that no prisoner should spend more than 15 days in solitary confinement, yet according to a report from the American Civil Liberties Union, Virginia inmates, on average, spend 2.7 years in solitary confinement. A Northern Virginia grandmother on the board of the Interfaith Action for Human Rights, Gay Gardner, has been receiving letters from prisoners and is working to raise awareness about issues within the commonwealth’s correctional system.
(The Washington Post)
A 68-year-old National Counseling Group mental health counselor from Bristow has been charged with two counts of simple assault for engaging in “unwanted touching” with a 16-year-old Fairfax County girl.
(WTOP)
Over the last five months, a 32-year-old Reston man has been driving to Ellicott City, Maryland, picking up a 13-year-old boy and sexually abusing the minor at a motel at least once each week.
(INSIDENOVA)
A video has been released in which Rosslyn residents believe they’ve captured the man responsible for keying and slashing the tires of more than a half dozen cars along N. Colonial Court and N. Colonial Terrace.
(ARL Now)
June 15 and 16, the Reston Town Center will host the Taste of Reston, an outdoor food festival organized by the Greater Reston Chamber of Commerce. Tasting tickets can be purchased online.
(Reston Now)
