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Alexandria mayor urges patience with slaying investigation involving Arlington officer
Naomi Jagoda
Yesterday
Alexandria Mayor Bill Euille urged residents to be patient while authorities investigate the fatal shooting of a 22-year-old man by an off-duty Arlington County deputy sheriff. "I am confident that appropriate justice will prevail once all facts are known," Euille said in a statement Thursday....
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D.C. teen birth rate drops 15 percent as U.S. hits record low
Matt Connolly
Updated: Thu, May 23, 2013
Teenage birth rates dropped in D.C. and nearly every other state from 2007 to 2011, with the country as a whole hitting a record low, according to a new study from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. There were 42.8 births per 1,000 teenagers ages 15 to 19 in the District in...
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Prominent swim coach faces sentencing for child sex abuse
Scott McCabe
Updated: Thu, May 23, 2013
Rick Curl, whose Northern Virginia swim club has produced several Olympians, is scheduled to be sentenced Thursday for sexually abusing a child he coached more than 25 years ago. Curl, 63, faces up to 15 years in prison and will have to register as a sex offender, according to the Montgomery...
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D.C.-area cities keep pace with Sun Belt growth
Matt Connolly
Published: Wed, May 22, 2013
The nation's fastest-growing cities may be in the Sun Belt, but the District and nearby Alexandria and Gaithersburg are gaining residents at a blistering pace, according to census data released Thursday. D.C.'s population grew by 5.1 percent to 632,323 from 2010 to 2012, according to the...
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Off-duty deputy sheriff fatally shoots man in Alexandria
Naomi Jagoda
Updated: Wed, May 22, 2013
A 22-year-old man is dead after being shot by an off-duty Arlington County deputy sheriff in Alexandria, police officials said. Family and friends identified the victim as Julian Dawkins, who worked for the "PBS NewsHour" program. The deputy sheriff, 44-year-old Craig Patterson, was questioned...
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Northern Virginia leaders plan wish list of road projects for new funds
Liz Essley
Published: Wed, May 22, 2013
Northern Virginia transportation officials have a long wish list for the first $180 million expected to flow into their coffers in the next year from tax increases in Gov. Bob McDonnell's new roads package -- including widening traffic-clogged Route 28 and Route 1. The Northern Virginia...
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Officials: Only handful of Capital Bikeshare bikes stolen
Kytja Weir
Updated: Wed, May 22, 2013
Capital Bikeshare has shiny red bikes on street corners all over the region, with plans to expand. But surprisingly, those cherry red numbers haven't been stolen very often. Only 15 bikes have gone missing out of the 1,900 bikes ordered for the bikesharing service since it began in fall 2010,...
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Appeals court allows retrial in Virginia capital murder case
Naomi Jagoda
Published: Wed, May 22, 2013
A federal appeals court in Richmond will allow prosecutors to pursue a capital murder case against a man whose conviction in Prince William County had previously been overturned, the Associated Press reported. Justin Wolfe had previously been sent to death row for the 2001 murder of his...
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Washington area spends big bucks on its students
Matt Connolly
Published: Tue, May 21, 2013
D.C. public schools spent $18,475 per student in fiscal 2011, more than any state outside of New York, according to census data released Tuesday. Among the country's 100 public school systems with the most students, Montgomery and Prince George's counties placed fourth and ninth.
