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Fairfax County resumes rollout of speed cameras in school zones

Published June 4, 2025 at 8:30AM

A school zone speed limit sign (file photo)

Fairfax County will expand its speed camera program to 10 more public schools this summer, several months after it announced plans to install the devices.

After giving the public notice on Monday (June 2), the county will roll out the new cameras in two batches, starting with three cameras in early July. Another seven cameras will come online in mid-August before the next school year gets underway.

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Lorton teen accused by police of shooting girlfriend’s father

By Angela Woolsey

Published June 3, 2025 at 6:00PM | Updated June 4, 2025 at 4:52PM

Christopher Cureton has been charged in connection with a shooting in Lorton (via FCPD)

A Lorton man was shot last night (Monday) by a teen identified by police as his daughter’s boyfriend.

According to the Fairfax County Police Department, officers responded to the 9800 block of East Hill Drive at 9:56 p.m. for reports of a shooting in the Lorton Station neighborhood.

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Indian restaurant coming soon to Idylwood from Bollywood Bistro team

By Angela Woolsey

Published June 3, 2025 at 1:45PM

Signage has been installed for Mumbai Central, coming soon to Idylwood Plaza (photo by Susan Woolsey)

The team behind Fairfax City’s Bollywood Bistro is working on a new restaurant that they hope will transport diners in more ways than one.

Upon entering Mumbai Central in Idylwood, customers will find themselves in a space resembling a train compartment, decked out with a destination board, a ticket counter and other paraphernalia that evoke the restaurant’s namesake train station.

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

By Angela Woolsey

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.