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🗞️JUST IN: Off-duty FCPD officer charged with domestic assault in Tysons
An officer assigned to the Fairfax County Police Department’s McLean District Station has been arrested and charged with three counts of domestic assault. Brandon Moore, …
🗞️FCPS lawsuit over federal funding freeze revived by appeals court
Fairfax County Public Schools’ legal bid to restore funding withheld by the U.S. Department of Education due to its policies supporting transgender and other gender-expan…
Weekly crime report – Oct. 4-11
The following incidents in the Annandale/Mason District area are from a Fairfax County Police Department report. Oct. 4 Larceny – 7500 block of Kingman Drive, Annandale D…
🗞️Volunteer fire departments in Fairfax brace for new year of change, commission chair says
Fairfax County’s volunteer fire departments are persevering in an era of change, local leaders were told earlier this week. The current situation can be summed up as “goo…
New alert system warns property owners of real estate fraud
Fairfax County property owners can now receive alerts whenever any documents are filed in connection with their real estate records. The Fairfax Circuit Court Property Al…
🗞️Fight over evidence in Alex Murdaugh retrial turns to DNA and missing murder weapons
LEXINGTON, S.C. (AP) — Alex Murdaugh’s defense can do their own tests of unidentified DNA found under his wife’s fingernails after she and her son were shot to death in 2…
🗞️The Latest: 16-year-old kills 3 children and a teacher at Oregon elementary school
A 16-year-old opened fire at an elementary school in Bend, Oregon, on Thursday, killing three children and a teacher before he was shot by a person at the scene who pursu…
🗞️Israeli settlers torch cars and trees in West Bank villages, disrupting Palestinians’ olive harvest
ABU FALAH, West Bank (AP) — Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian villages across the occupied West Bank on Friday, setting fire to cars and trees and beating residents a…
🗞️Man who stopped the Oregon elementary school shooter has 2 daughters at the school, his mom says
Officials are lauding the actions of a local who they say chased down and shot a teenage gunman who killed three children and a teacher at an Oregon elementary school.…
🗞️The aftermath of a school shooting in Oregon, in photos
BEND, Ore. (AP) — A day after the mass shooting that killed three children and a teacher at an Oregon elementary school, well-wishers laid flowers outside of Silver Rail …
🗞️Young voters fear mass shootings like the one in Oregon, but that fear divides them on gun control
An Oregon school shooting comes weeks before midterms when young voters could break turnout records, but research shows shared fear doesn’t mean shared views on guns.…
🗞️Two Occoquan Elementary employees charged after 5-year-old boy climbs fence, runs across Old Bridge Road
Two school employees face charges after a 5-year-old boy climbed over a playground fence at Occoquan Elementary School earlier this month and ran across busy Old Bridge R…