Rachel Baye

Published: Wed, May 22, 2013

Students, teachers and parents at Winston Churchill High School in Potomac are mourning the loss of a 16-year-old basketball player who killed himself this week, joining a growing number of youths who commit suicide each year. Suicide accounts for roughly 16 percent of deaths among people...

Naomi Jagoda

Published: Mon, May 20, 2013

A man was robbed at gunpoint in the Annandale area when he was taking his toddler out of his vehicle, police officials said. The incident took place Friday at about 11:30 p.m. in a parking lot in the 4500 block of Commons Drive. Two men produced a gun and ordered the victim to hand over his...

Naomi Jagoda

Published: Sun, May 19, 2013

A fire occurred at a Fairfax County high school Saturday morning, officials said. About 10:25 a.m. Saturday, firefighters went to George C. Marshall High School, located at 7731 Leesburg Pike in the Dunn Loring area. Firefighters saw smoke coming from the school when they arrived at the scene,...

Naomi Jagoda

Published: Tue, May 14, 2013

Authorities continue to seek information about the disappearance of a girl who went missing from Fairfax County nearly 15 years ago. On Oct. 21, 1998, 12-year-old Yuan Wang got off a school bus not far from her foster home on the 4700 block of Barnum Lane in the Lincolnia area of Fairfax...

Naomi Jagoda

Published: Mon, May 13, 2013

A Fairfax County police cruiser was struck in a hit-and-run incident in the Annandale area over the weekend, police said. About 12:30 a.m. Sunday, a dark, four-door sedan traveling westbound on Masonville Drive went through a stop sign and turned onto Gallows Road. The vehicle struck the rear...

Steve Contorno

Updated: Sun, May 12, 2013

Democrat Terry McAuliffe and Republican Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli have agreed on very little since the start of the Virginia gubernatorial campaign, but the one issue on which they found common ground -- ending a handful of local business taxes -- has anxious municipal officials across the...

Scott McCabe

Published: Sun, May 12, 2013

Former congressional staffer Walter Graham was found strangled to death in his Mount Vernon-area apartment more than 20 years ago, and his killing remains a mystery. Graham's case is one of thousands of unsolved homicides in the D.C. area, and Fairfax County Police are still seeking any bit of...

Rachel Baye

Published: Sat, May 11, 2013

A student in a Fairfax County public school caught for the first time with marijuana would not be automatically expelled, under a new disciplinary policy the school board is scheduled to consider Monday. The current policy recommends expelling a student caught for the first time with marijuana...

Rachel Baye

Updated: Wed, May 8, 2013

Fairfax County Schools Superintendent Jack Dale is pulling back half of the raise he proposed for teachers after the cash-strapped county Board of Supervisors denied the school system $61.7 million of the $92.4 million budget increase it requested. Elimination of a 1 percent pay raise to keep...

Rachel Baye

Published: Wed, May 8, 2013

Fairfax County Public Schools Superintendent Jack Dale has been hospitalized for a medical emergency, the school system said Wednesday. Dale, who plans to retire in June, was hospitalized late Tuesday afternoon. By the time of the announcement by School Board Chairman Ilryong Moon Wednesday...