A Maryland man has been appointed his third defense attorney in what prosecutors say is a ploy to delay his trial on murder charges.
Fairfax County Circuit Court Judge Stephen Shannon on Monday (Oct. 26) appointed Thomas F. Koerner Jr. to represent 32-year-old Tylen Jennings.
Northern Virginia remains a hot spot for Asian cuisine, judging by the five local establishments that found spots on the Washington Post’s annual ranking of the top 40 restaurants in the D.C. region.
Released yesterday (Wednesday), the 2026 list is the first compiled by new food critic Elazar Sontag, who took over the position in November 2025 following the retirement of longtime reviewer Tom Sietsema.
A Maryland man has been indicted for second-degree murder in the stabbing death of a woman in Annandale earlier this year.
Musa Kargbo, 43, is now scheduled to stand trial on Jan. 11 in Fairfax County Circuit Court. The Prince George’s County resident is accused of killing Isha Koroma, 26, of Alexandria, outside of the Annandale home where she worked taking care of a child, on Nov. 7, 2025.
An Annandale man was killed over Labor Day weekend after being struck by an SUV driver while walking on I-395 in Lincolnia, the Virginia State Police says.
Troopers responded to the southbound lanes of I-395 near the 2-mile-marker at Edsall Road on Sept. 6 at 5:59 a.m. for the crash.
Since it began collecting near-miss data for local roads in 2021, Northern Virginia Families for Safe Streets has accumulated more evidence that such close calls between drivers and other travelers reflect patterns of behavior, rather than random or one-time slip-ups.
More than 70% or 94 of the 129 near-misses reported by community members in Fairfax County and the cities of Fairfax and Falls Church between January 2025 and June of this year were marked as recurring incidents, according to an analysis released by the volunteer-led safety advocacy organization on Sept. 10.
Unfortunately for local foodies waiting to see the vendor and entertainment lineups for this year’s Taste of Annandale, no announcements are coming.
The annual community celebration has been put on hold for 2026 “due to a combination of logistical and personal issues,” organizers told FFXnow.
George Mason Regional Library (7001 Little River Turnpike) will be out of commission starting next month while it undergoes a long-planned renovation.
Fairfax County Public Library (FCPL) announced yesterday (Sept. 1) that the library’s last day of operations will be Oct. 23, leaving the Annandale area with limited access to library services for the next few months.
Fairfax County Police Chief Kevin Davis suggested today (Aug. 26) that the man who last month apparently tried to grab an officer’s gun during a mental health crisis may have been attempting “suicide by police.”
Davis’ remarks came at a press conference during which the Fairfax County Police Department released roughly three minutes of body camera footage depicting the officer searching for and ultimately shooting the man, who had fled into the woods near Americana Drive in Annandale on July 28.
A nonprofit focused on advocating for immigrants and the working class plans to open a community center along Little River Turnpike in Annandale that it hopes will become a hub for workforce training, youth programs, legal clinics and other social services.
We Are CASA hopes to partially open and offer some services inside the 11,000-square-foot Fairfax Welcome Center by the end of 2027, Jossie Flor Sapunar, the group’s national communications director, told FFXnow over email.
A driver died after their vehicle caught fire following a crash on the Capital Beltway (I-495) early Sunday morning (Aug. 15).
According to the Virginia State Police, a trooper responded at around 2:20 a.m. that day for a crash in the highway’s northbound lanes south of Braddock Road near Annandale.
