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Garbage truck skips over curb, crashes into Lorton house

Published April 28, 2026 at 2:45PM

A garbage truck crashed into a house on Henry Knox Drive in Lorton (via FCFRD/Facebook)

For one Lorton homeowner, this week’s trash pickup might’ve left more garbage than it took away.

A garbage truck crashed into a single-family house in the 7600 block of Henry Knox Drive this morning (Tuesday), drawing a response from the Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department around 11:18 a.m.

Sports

Lake Braddock alum picked in NFL draft by Baltimore Ravens

By Angela Woolsey

Published April 28, 2026 at 12:45PM

Matt Hibner talks to reporters by video after his selection in the NFL draft (via Baltimore Ravens)

A former Lake Braddock Bruin could soon don purple and gold on an NFL gridiron.

Burke native Matthew Hibner was drafted on Saturday (April 25) by the Baltimore Ravens, which selected him in the fourth round with the 133rd overall pick after trading a fifth-round slot and 2027 sixth-round pick to the San Francisco 49ers.

Around Town

Free outdoor concerts return to Reston Town Center, starting in May

By Angela Woolsey

Published April 28, 2026 at 9:15AM

Reston Concerts on the Town (courtesy IRL Agency/Hawkeye Johnson)

The pavilion at Reston Town Center will once again host more than a dozen free concerts throughout the summer, starting next month.

The 33rd annual Reston Concerts on the Town series is set to return on May 16, coinciding, like in past years, with the Tephra ICA Arts Festival.

News

VDOT to present plan tomorrow for widening Route 7 in Tysons

By Angela Woolsey

Published April 28, 2026 at 8:30AM

Traffic on eastbound Route 7 (Leesburg Pike) in Tysons south of Route 123 (staff photo by Angela Woolsey)

Design work has been underway for about a year now on plans to widen the portion of Route 7 (Leesburg Pike) that runs through central Tysons.

The Virginia Department of Transportation will present its initial concept for widening the road between Route 123 (Chain Bridge Road) and the Capital Beltway (I-495) to the community for the first time at a virtual public information meeting at 7 p.m. tomorrow (Wednesday).

News

FCPD: Four arrested for distributing drugs out of Mount Vernon motel

By Angela Woolsey

Published April 27, 2026 at 3:45PM

Fairfax County police vehicle outside Red Carpet Inn in Mount Vernon (via Google Maps)

A motel along Richmond Highway in Mount Vernon has been playing host to a drug distribution ring, Fairfax County police say.

Officers arrested four people at the Red Carpet Inn (8257 Richmond Highway) on April 17 after a three-month investigation found that they were distributing narcotics out of multiple hotel rooms, the Fairfax County Police Department announced today (Monday).

News

County planners consider future of development in office-heavy Reston East

By Angela Woolsey

Published April 27, 2026 at 2:45PM

The Atlantic Union Bank building at 1800 Robert Fulton Drive is among the parcels newly added to Fairfax County's Reston East planning study (staff photo by Angela Woolsey)

Just a few years after approving a new comprehensive plan for Reston, Fairfax County officials are taking a closer look at the future of development in a swath of Reston East currently dominated by older office buildings.

The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors directed staff on April 14 to expand a planning study that initially looked at individual office properties south of the Dulles Toll Road to instead include an entire subdistrict from Upper Lake Drive to Hunter Mill Road.

Countywide

FCPD touts drone program, as vendor announces $3.5 billion investment

By Angela Woolsey

Published April 27, 2026 at 9:15AM

Fairfax County Police Chief Kevin Davis answers questions at a press conference in his department's Real Time Crime Center with Skydio (via Skydio/YouTube)

The Fairfax County Police Department’s use of drones has caught the attention of the Trump administration.

Federal officials, including Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr and White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Director Michael Kratsios, visited the FCPD’s Real Time Crime Center on Friday (April 24) to hype up the potential of drones to transform public safety and the U.S. economy.

News

Woman hospitalized after crash on Route 29 near Centreville library

By Angela Woolsey

Published April 24, 2026 at 7:20PM

Fairfax County police controlling traffic on Machen Road at Route 29 after two-vehicle crash (via VDOT traffic cameras)

A woman was critically injured in a two-vehicle crash this afternoon (Friday) on Route 29 near the Centreville Regional Library.

Police, firefighters and a medic with the Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department were dispatched to Route 29 at Machen Road around 5:32 p.m. for a crash involving at least one reportedly trapped person, according to scanner traffic.

News

Fairfax Connector bus involved in head-on crash near Pentagon, 23 injured

By Associated Press and Angela Woolsey

Published April 24, 2026 at 3:10PM | Updated April 24, 2026 at 5:42PM

Fairfax Connector and OmniRide collision near Pentagon (via Dave Statter/Bluesky)

A Fairfax Connector bus was one of two that collided head-on near the Pentagon this morning (Friday), injuring 23 people, including Defense Department workers.

The Omni Ride and Fairfax Connector transit buses struck each other shortly before 7:30 a.m., according to a press release from the Pentagon Force Protection Agency. Emergency personnel transported 18 of the injured to local hospitals for further medical evaluation. Five were treated at the scene.

News

‘Bespoke’ data center buildings proposed near Tysons residences

By Angela Woolsey

Published April 24, 2026 at 9:15AM

Conceptual rendering of Serverfarm's Vienna Cloud data centers from the southwest (via Kimley-Horn/Fairfax County)

An office complex in Tysons that currently hosts some data centers could become exclusively devoted to processing digital data, if its current owner secures Fairfax County’s approval.

Serverfarm, a California-based operator that appears to be making its first foray into the D.C. region, applied earlier this year for a special exception that would allow it to replace the existing, “groaning” office buildings at 7990 and 7980 Quantum Drive with a “completely modernized” data center.