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FCPD: Three people charged for months-long candle theft spree

Published June 3, 2025 at 11:45AM

Kingstowne Towne Center sign (staff photo by James Jarvis)

Three people have been arrested and charged with allegedly stealing thousands of dollars in candles from businesses at shopping centers in Kingstowne, Greenbriar and Springfield.

The Fairfax County Police Department says the “organized crew” of D.C. residents was behind 16 different thefts that occurred in February through May. The value of the candles stolen in each case ranged from $600 to over $4,300.

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Community concerns crop up with initial FCPS boundary rewrite proposals

By Scott McCaffrey and Angela Woolsey

Published June 3, 2025 at 10:00AM | Updated June 3, 2025 at 5:26PM

The Emerald Chase neighborhood organized a "Bike to School" demonstration to highlight their concerns about the initial redistricting proposals for Fairfax County Public Schools (photo by Marti Londal)

Fairfax County’s first major school boundaries overhaul in 40 years is set to move into its next phase.

With the last in a series of community engagement events set for Friday (June 6), the complicated effort of redrawing boundary lines will soon shift to a 95-member Superintendent’s Boundary Review Advisory Committee.

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Body found in Florida 32 years ago identified as missing Fairfax man

By Angela Woolsey

Published June 3, 2025 at 8:30AM | Updated June 3, 2025 at 10:05AM

A body found in Florida on Nov. 29, 1993 has been identified as Edman Eric Gleed, who was reported missing in Fairfax County two days earlier (courtesy Moxxy Forensic Investigations)

More than three decades ago, a man went missing in Falls Church. Two days later, a body was found off the Floridian coast roughly 1,000 miles away.

Authorities didn’t uncover the connection between the two cases until now, with the help of a genealogical investigation that confirmed the body was that of Edman Eric Gleed, who had been reported missing in November 1993.

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New homes under construction near Lake Fairfax Park in Reston

By Angela Woolsey

Published June 2, 2025 at 11:45AM

Construction has begun on the Fairfax Hunt Estates subdivision near Lake Fairfax Park in Reston (staff photo by Angela Woolsey)

A new housing subdivision is going up just outside Lake Fairfax Park in Reston.

The land outside the former Fairfax Hunt Club at 1321 Lake Fairfax Drive has been cleared, and fencing erected, to prepare for construction on the Fairfax Hunt Estates, which will ultimately consist of eight single-family homes.

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Trump administration labels Fairfax County a ‘sanctuary jurisdiction’

By Angela Woolsey

Published June 2, 2025 at 9:15AM

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers detain a person on Jan. 27, 2025, in Silver Spring, Maryland (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Fairfax County and hundreds of other localities across the country were labeled “sanctuary jurisdictions” last week by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for limiting their cooperation with federal immigration officials.

The department accused the localities on the list — which was published on its website last Thursday (May 29) before apparently being removed over the weekend — of obstructing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents from enforcing federal immigration laws, stating that they will all receive formal notices of non-compliance.

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Police: Man charged with groping women at Fair Oaks shopping centers, assaulting officer

By Angela Woolsey

Published May 30, 2025 at 2:45PM

Fair Oaks Mall sign (file photo)

A Fairfax man has been arrested for groping and assaulting multiple women at different shopping centers in the Fair Oaks area earlier this week, police say.

Officers responded first to Fair Oaks Mall (11700 Fair Oaks Mall) at 5:04 p.m. on Wednesday (May 28) after two women reported that a man had “approached and touched them inappropriately,” according to the Fairfax County Police Department.

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Vienna energy expert launches bid for 11th Congressional District seat

By Angela Woolsey

Published May 30, 2025 at 10:00AM

Vienna resident and nuclear energy attorney Amy Roma is running for Virginia's 11th Congressional District seat (courtesy Amy Roma for Congress)

A special election to fill the late Rep. Gerry Connolly’s now-open seat in Congress still hasn’t been officially ordered, but the number of Democrats seeking to stake a claim is now up to six.

Amy Roma, a Vienna resident and lawyer who specializes in energy policy, officially launched a campaign for the 11th Congressional District yesterday (Thursday) — the same day that Leopoldo Martínez, who’s also a lawyer, announced his own bid to become the Democratic nominee.

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Summer concerts return to Reston with Taylor Swift tribute band and more

By Angela Woolsey

Published May 30, 2025 at 9:15AM

Kids run around at a Family Fun Entertainment Series concert in summer 2024 (image by Lesnick Photo/Reston Community Center)

A Taylor Swift tribute band is coming back to Reston Station this summer as part of an extensive array of free seasonal concerts organized throughout the area by Reston Community Center (RCC).

The community center kicked off its annual summer concert and entertainment series over Memorial Day weekend with a jazzy happy hour at Reston Town Square Park (11900 Market Street) on May 23, courtesy of the Tania & Jeff Grubbs Quartet.

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Forecast: May to end with more rain, easing D.C.-area drought

By Angela Woolsey

Published May 29, 2025 at 3:45PM | Updated May 29, 2025 at 4:05PM

Low-pressure system could bring storms to Fairfax County on May 30, 2025, DC News Now metereologist Jackie Layer says (courtesy DC News Now)

This has been an unusually wet May in the D.C. region, conditions that are expected to linger through the month’s final days.

In her latest forecast for FFXnow, DC News Now meteorologist Jackie Layer advises Fairfax County residents “to stay weather-aware” tomorrow (Friday), as storms could potentially swing through the area in the afternoon and evening.

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Tower Club in Tysons to get first-ever major renovation this summer

By Angela Woolsey

Published May 29, 2025 at 1:45PM

Tower Club Tysons Corner renovation rendering (courtesy Invited)

At 38 years old, an exclusive social club that looms over Tysons has decided it’s time for a makeover.

Tower Club of Tysons Corner will undergo a “substantive” interior renovation this summer, owner and operator Invited Club announced on April 18. The $1 million overhaul will be the club’s first significant redesign since its founding in 1989.