Monday afternoon, a toddler fell from a 24th floor Fairfax County apartment balcony located at Seminary Road and was pronounced dead at the scene. Earlier this year, another child fell from the apartment complex and also died.
(The Washington Post)
Many individuals’ morning commute was negatively impacted by power issues plaguing Metro’s Blue, Yellow and Silver lines Tuesday morning. The Blue Line shut down between Franconia-Springfield and Arlington National Cemetery, and the the Yellow and Silver lines saw delays due to power complications at McLean and Van Dorn.
(WJLA)
Monday, Virginia Democrats filed a lawsuit pushing to have Shaun Brown removed from the ballot, claiming that the signatures that got him there were forged.
(WTOP)
A 34-year-old man being held on sex assault charges in Washington, D.C., is suspected of being the same individual behind multiple indecent exposure incidents that have taken place in Arlington over the last few months.
(INSIDENOVA)
Two lanes of the Arlington Memorial Bridge will be closed between 6 a.m.-3 p.m. (westbound) and 9:30 a.m.-3 p.m. (eastbound) through Friday, Aug. 17.
(ARL Now)
Near London’s House of Parliment, a car crashed through pedestrians and cyclists, sending two to the hospital, though the injuries were not life-threatening. The incident is being investigated as a terrorist attack.
(WTOP)
With one in nine Virginia residents struggling with hunger, 77 youths from the Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Arlington St. Lucy Food Project, the youth group at Annandale’s Holy Spirit Catholic Church, Lake Braddock High School and more gathered more than 10,000 pounds of corn for area food banks, one of them the Healthy Harvest Food Bank in Warsaw.
(WJLA)
Monday, the Capital Trails Coalition released a “diagrammatic map” featuring the Metro-D.C. region’s 436 miles of trails, plus an additional 302 miles that are soon to come.
(ARL Now)
Actor Rob Lowe‘s California home draws inspiration from the part of Virginia in which he was born, Charlottesville.
(The Washington Post)
