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JUST IN: Virginia AG seeks to take over dismissed Fairfax County indecent exposure case

Published February 11, 2025 at 3:55PM

Fairfax County Courthouse (file photo)

Virginia’s attorney general is apparently seeking to revive a Fairfax indecent exposure case against a person who was subsequently charged with allegedly exposing himself in a girls’ locker room at Washington-Liberty High School in Arlington.

In a Feb. 11 letter to Fairfax County Commonwealth’s Attorney Steve Descano, Attorney General Jason Miyares accused the county’s top prosecutor of undermining public safety after a case charging Richard Kenneth Cox with indecent exposure at a Planet Fitness in Fairfax City was dismissed last summer.

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Arlington bakery to replace former Skorpios Maggio’s in Vienna

By Angela Woolsey

Published January 23, 2025 at 1:15PM

Cupcakes from Bakeshop, which is expanding to Vienna (courtesy Bakeshop)

A longstanding family-owned restaurant in Vienna will soon be converted into a bakery whose website declares that “everyone is family.”

Bakeshop, which got its start 15 years ago in Arlington, is taking over the storefront at 421 Maple Avenue that was vacated last summer by Skorpios Maggio’s Greek Family Restaurant.

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Man who shot at Fairfax police officers during chase pleads guilty to assault

By Jared Serre

Published October 23, 2024 at 11:15AM

In-car video recorded by police shows Ricardo Singleton's arrest at the Bestway Supermarket shopping center in West Falls Church on Oct. 6, 2022 (via FCPD/YouTube)

A man who shot at police officers during a chase that came to an end in Fairfax County has pleaded guilty to three charges.

Ricardo Singleton, 30, pleaded guilty on Oct. 16 to three counts of assault on law enforcement in Fairfax County Circuit Court.

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Former Army soldier pleads guilty to killing West Springfield woman

By Angela Woolsey

Published October 4, 2024 at 2:00PM | Updated October 4, 2024 at 10:52PM

Fairfax County Courthouse (file photo)

An ex-Army soldier has pleaded guilty to killing a woman at her West Springfield home in 1994, Fairfax County Commonwealth’s Attorney Steve Descano announced today (Friday).

Stephan Smerk, 52, could face up to 70 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to first-degree murder for stabbing and killing Robin Lawrence, a stranger, while he was stationed at Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall in Arlington.

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Rep. Connolly seeks public report on Trump campaign clash at Arlington National Ceremony

By Angela Woolsey

Published August 28, 2024 at 3:30PM | Updated August 29, 2024 at 11:05AM

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump participates in a wreath-laying ceremony the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery (via CSPAN)

One of Fairfax County’s congressional representatives wants a public accounting of reported clash between presidential candidate Donald Trump’s campaign and staff at Arlington National Cemetery.

This morning (Wednesday), Rep. Gerry Connolly called for the cemetery to “publicly release all that transpired” during the former president and current Republican presidential nominee’s visit on Monday (Aug. 26).

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D.C. bar owners branch out with planned Tysons laser hair removal clinic

By Angela Woolsey

Published August 26, 2024 at 11:30AM | Updated August 26, 2024 at 1:28PM

Capital Laser can currently be found in Rosslyn (courtesy Capital Laser)

A laser hair removal clinic based in Arlington is honing in on Tysons as the site of its first expansion.

Capital Laser announced last week that it has sold its first franchise to 202 Bars operators Matt Weiss and Mike Schuster, who are best known as the owners of Barrel, Union Pub and other D.C. bars.

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Local ice cream shop honors Olympic athletes with limited-time sundaes

By Angela Woolsey

Published August 6, 2024 at 2:30PM

Toby's Homemade Ice Cream is offering limited-time Gold Medal Sundaes during the Paris Olympics (courtesy Toby's Homemade Ice Cream/Instagram)

With D.C.-area athletes riding high at this year’s Summer Games, Toby’s Homemade Ice Cream is serving up gold medal-themed scoops that probably taste sweeter than the real thing.

The Arlington and Vienna ice cream parlor unveiled a limited-time Gold Medal Sundae last Friday (Aug. 2) in honor of Arlingtonian swimmer Torri Huske, a Yorktown High School graduate who’s won five medals — three of them gold — at the 2024 Paris Olympics.

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Fairfax Water: No quality concerns after use of Washington Aqueduct paused

By Angela Woolsey

Published July 5, 2024 at 11:45AM

Getting tap water in a glass (via Swanky Fella on Unsplash)

Fairfax Water customers weren’t affected by the recent Boil Water Advisory that went out to D.C. and Arlington County residents before Independence Day.

The utility, which serves almost 2 million people in Northern Virginia, suspended its use of the Washington Aqueduct early on Wednesday (July 3) before the advisory was issued later that day. Though D.C. and Arlington both lifted the advisory yesterday (Thursday), Fairfax Water says it hasn’t yet resumed getting water from the aqueduct.

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Additional housing, retail proposed for Seven Corners apartments

By Angela Woolsey

Published June 12, 2024 at 9:30AM

2024 conceptual design of new multi-family apartment building that has been proposed to complement the Cavalier Club at 6200 Wilson Blvd in Seven Corners (via Hord Coplan Macht/Fairfax County)

A developer is seeking to expand on the Cavalier Club apartments in Seven Corners on both sides of the Fairfax and Arlington county line.

A 110-foot-tall multi-family building with 250 apartments and 5,000 square feet of retail space has been proposed at 6200 Wilson Blvd on the Arlington County border, according to a rezoning application filed with Fairfax County on May 31.

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Women’s fashion boutique makes move to Tysons after 36 years in Arlington

By Angela Woolsey

Published March 15, 2024 at 10:15AM | Updated March 19, 2024 at 11:53AM

The clothing store Daniel's Boutique is moving to Tysons after 36 years in Crystal City (courtesy Mona Rashidi)

(Updated at 11:50 a.m. on 3/19/2024) A local wardrobe consultant who has worked with celebrities like Kim Kardashian is setting up shop in Tysons.

Nasrin Rashidi hopes to reopen Daniel’s Boutique, the women’s clothing store that she owns with her husband, Sasan, at 8150 Leesburg Pike in early April. Named after the couple’s son, the business had operated in Crystal City for 36 years until closing its location there on Dec. 17.