This autumn will be busy for the Fairfax County Parks Authority (FCPA).
Plans to install pickleball courts at Greenbriar Park near Fair Lakes and a skate park at Mount Vernon Woods Park in Hybla Valley will move forward in the coming weeks, the park authority announced yesterday (Thursday).
A man from the Mount Vernon area is facing multiple criminal charges after allegedly attacking a woman in Woodlawn last week.
According to the Fairfax County Police Department, officers were dispatched to the 3800 block of Roxbury Court at 12:46 a.m. last Thursday (June 5) for a report of an abduction and attempted sexual assault.
The storms passing through the D.C. area this evening (Friday) have claimed two lives as a result of trees falling on cars, police say.
Frye Road has been closed between Manor Drive and Pole Road in Woodlawn after a tree fell on a car, killing a woman, according to the Fairfax County Police Department.
A Mount Vernon man will serve more than three decades in prison after being convicted of murder for a 2022 fatal shooting in Woodlawn.
Fairfax County Circuit Court Judge David Oblon sentenced Kyjuan Trott-McLean, 45, this morning (Friday) to 40 years in prison for second-degree murder and an additional three years for using a firearm in the commission of a felony.
One man is dead and another is battling life-threatening injuries after an early-morning shooting in Woodlawn on Thursday (April 3).
The Fairfax County Police Department responded to the Mallard Courts Apartments in the 8400 block of Madge Lane around 1:31 a.m. for a report of shots fired.
A crash in Centreville that killed a teenager last Thursday (Feb. 27) was the result of a drunk driver, Fairfax County police say.
Officers responded at 10:28 p.m. that night to the 5600 block of Pleasant Valley Road for the two-vehicle crash.
Two teenagers are facing criminal charges after reportedly brandishing a gun at Mount Vernon Woods Elementary School in Woodlawn yesterday (Thursday).
Officers responded to the school at 4015 Fielding Street at 2:53 p.m. after “several” students reported seeing two men on the property, one of whom displayed a gun, the Fairfax County Police Department says.
Local law enforcement is still on the lookout for one suspected serial burglar, despite arresting two others in recent days.
The Fairfax County Police Department is seeking help from the community to identify a man believed to have perpetrated two burglaries and two larcenies in nine days.
An Alexandria man believed to have shot another man in Woodlawn yesterday (Wednesday) has been arrested.
According to the Fairfax County Police Department, Dominique Witaker, 36, was engaged in a verbal argument with another man — who was known to him — when he allegedly shot the other man in the lower body.
An apparent dispute between a customer and the employees of a nightclub in Woodlawn took a dangerous turn last weekend, police say.
Officers were dispatched to Club One in Woodlawn Shopping Center (8786 Richmond Highway) at 12:58 a.m. on Sunday (Oct. 13) after a caller reported a man brandishing a gun, according to the police scanner.
