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Police: Two juveniles charged after student stabbed at Mount Vernon HS

Published November 3, 2022 at 11:45AM | Updated November 3, 2022 at 1:28PM

Mount Vernon High School (via Google Maps)

(Updated at 1:30 p.m.) Fairfax County police have charged two teens in connection to yesterday’s stabbing at Mount Vernon High School.

A male teen was stabbed in a bathroom “following an altercation with another student,” drawing a police response to the school on Old Mount Vernon Road at 1:17 p.m., the Fairfax County Police Department said in an email.

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Capital One gets green light for urban park, baseball field at Tysons campus

By Angela Woolsey

Published November 3, 2022 at 11:00AM

Capital One Center sign with map of development plan (staff photo by Angela Woolsey)

Capital One has officially gotten permission to build a temporary baseball diamond and two permanent parks near its headquarters in Tysons.

The Fairfax County Planning Commission approved two separate plans for recreational amenities on Oct. 26, setting the stage for work on the baseball field to potentially finish in time for the upcoming spring season.

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MS-13 members get life in prison for 2016 murders at Lincolnia park

By Angela Woolsey

Published November 3, 2022 at 9:30AM | Updated February 28, 2024 at 7:05PM

Holmes Run Stream Valley Park (via Google Maps)

(Updated at 6:55 p.m. on 2/28/2024) Five MS-13 members have been sentenced to life in prison yesterday for kidnapping and killing two teens at Holmes Run Stream Valley Park in 2016.

Elmer Zelaya Martinez, Ronald Herrera Contreras, Henry Zelaya Martinez, Pablo Velasco Barrera, and Duglas Ramirez Ferrera were each handed six terms of life imprisonment as well as two 120-month terms by U.S. District Court Judge Rossie D. Alston, Jr., the Justice Department announced yesterday.

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Tysons black bear has also been seen in Vienna, Reston, police confirm

By Angela Woolsey

Published November 2, 2022 at 3:00PM

A Reston resident photographed the black bear in the Soapstone Drive area (courtesy Sarah Boczar)

The black bear spotted wandering past the Adaire Apartments in Tysons on Sunday (Oct. 30) is the same one seen in Vienna, Reston and other parts of Fairfax County earlier this fall, police say.

The animal has been active in the county for about two months now, traveling in the Vienna, Oakton, McLean, Reston and Fairfax areas, according to Katherine Edwards, the Fairfax County Police Department’s wildlife management specialist.

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County won’t rename Sully District, pushing instead for more education on its history

By Angela Woolsey

Published November 2, 2022 at 2:15PM

The Sully District Governmental Center (staff photo by Jay Westcott)

Fairfax County has opted not to move forward with a potential Sully District renaming.

Sully District Supervisor Kathy Smith announced at yesterday’s board meeting that she believes “the best step forward at this time is to retain” the name of the magisterial district, which encompasses the southwestern corner of Fairfax County.

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Vienna Police lets officers grow out beards for cancer research fundraiser

By Angela Woolsey

Published November 2, 2022 at 11:00AM

Vienna police officers will forgo shaving to raise money for prostate cancer research (via Town of Vienna Police/Facebook)

Male police officers in the Town of Vienna will forgo shaving razors this November for a second consecutive year.

Starting yesterday through Nov. 30, Chief Jim Morris has suspended the Vienna Police Department’s usual prohibition against facial hair to support its “Grow & Give” fundraising campaign, which aims to increase awareness and money for prostate cancer research.

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Fairfax County will scale back mass Covid vaccine clinics next week

By Angela Woolsey

Published November 1, 2022 at 3:00PM

The Fairfax County Government Center's COVID-19 vaccine clinic (staff photo by Angela Woolsey)

The days of getting COVID-19 vaccinations at the Fairfax County and South County government centers are numbered.

The mass vaccine clinics will reduce operations from five to three days per week, starting Monday (Nov. 7), the Fairfax County Health Department announced last week.

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Smoothie King run by McLean couple opens in Vienna

By Angela Woolsey

Published November 1, 2022 at 2:15PM

Smoothie King is now open in Vienna (staff photo by Angela Woolsey)

Vienna’s newest stop for smoothies celebrated its coronation yesterday.

Smoothie King is now open to customers at 258 Maple Ave East, where it replaced the furniture store Savvy Rest Natural Bedroom in the same block as Sweet Leaf Cafe.

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Black bear filmed strolling by Adaire Apartments in Tysons

By Angela Woolsey

Published November 1, 2022 at 9:45AM | Updated November 1, 2022 at 5:58PM

Outside the Adaire Apartments in Tysons (via Google Maps)

(Updated at 6 p.m.) Tysons got an unexpected visitor this weekend in the form of an apparently solo black bear.

The animal was spotted ambling along the Boyd Pointe Way sidewalk outside the Adaire Apartments in a video shared on Twitter last night by FOX5 reporter Angie Goff. She said it was seen on Sunday (Oct. 30) at 1521 Boyd Pointe Way.

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County hit with deluge of new voter registrations a week before election

By Angela Woolsey

Published October 31, 2022 at 3:30PM | Updated October 31, 2022 at 7:38PM

Sample ballots for Fairfax County's 2022 midterm election (via Fairfax County Office of Elections/Twitter)

(Updated at 7:35 p.m.) The race to finalize voter rolls for next week’s midterm elections may come down to the wire after Fairfax County received thousands of new applications today (Monday).

A computer error that affected Virginia’s voter registration system earlier this summer resulted in the state sending another 11,000 applications to the Fairfax County Office of Elections, which says it “will do whatever it takes” to process the documents in time for Election Day on Tuesday, Nov. 8.