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Wakefield Advances to 'It's Academic' Championship -- The Wakefield High School 'It's Academic' team was a runner-up in the Northern Region tournament and is advancing to the state championship...

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Fmr. CIA Officer Charged -- Former CIA officer and current Arlington resident John Kiriakou, 47, was charged yesterday with repeatedly leaking classified information to journalists. Kiriakou is...

Board Approves New Apartment Building Along Rt. 50

A new 12-story apartment building will be coming to the Fort Myer Heights/Courthouse area as part of a plan to help preserve a historic garden apartment complex. The planned 104-unit building will...

Angry Bees Swarm Apartment, Sting Man

A swarm of angry bees in an apartment building injured one man and kept police and firefighters at bay last night. The man was apparently trying to get a bee hive out of a second-story...

Residents of Building Near Construction Collapse Scramble to Find New Homes

First they were forced to flee their apartments as the ground around it slid into a huge construction pit. Then they were told that the money to pay for their hotel rooms was being cut off. Now,...

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Aftershock Felt Across Region -- A 4.5 magnitude aftershock jolted some residents out of bed just after 1:00 last night. The epicenter of the aftershock was five miles south of Mineral, Virginia,...

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Lime Fresh Signs Clarendon Lease -- Lime Fresh Mexican Grill, from the company that brought you Ruby Tuesday, is officially coming to Clarendon. The restaurant is opening one of the first...

UPDATED: Firefighters Battle Blaze in Ft. Myer Heights

(Updated at 2:40 p.m.) Firefighters battled an apartment fire on the 1600 block of N. Queen Street in Ft. Myer Heights this afternoon. A resident reported fire on the second floor of a...

BREAKING NEWS — One Killed in Ft. Myer Heights Fire

(Updated at 1:20 p.m.) A man was killed in a two-alarm fire at the Prospect House condominiums (1200 N. Nash Street) in Ft. Myer Heights last night, authorities have confirmed. Fire broke out in a...

Board Approves $4 Million for Affordable Housing Purchase

The Arlington County Board on Saturday approved a $4 million loan that will help a local non-profit purchase a 134-unit affordable apartment complex. The Arlington Partnership for Affordable...

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Water Woes Continue in Ft. Myer Heights -- Some Ft. Myer Heights residents were without water last night as crews worked to repair a persistent water main leak. Workers installed some temporary...

Water Main Break in Front of Quarterdeck Restaurant

The Quarterdeck Restaurant in Fort Myer Heights is no longer landlocked. There's now a small river flowing down Fort Myer Drive, past the 31-year-old seafood restaurant. As if the Quarterdeck...

Quarterdeck Restaurant Gets a New Lease on Life

The Quarterdeck Restaurant has been saved. Owner Lou Gatti, who suddenly announced last month that the 31-year-old seafood restaurant would be closing, now says the Fort Myer Heights institution...

Quarterdeck Restaurant Closing

The Quarterdeck Restaurant is closing after 31 years of serving seafood, beer and American cuisine in the Fort Myer Heights neighborhood, according to an email distributed to the Radnor / Ft. Myer...

Water Main Break Near Rosslyn

A water main break last night in Fort Myer Heights caused asphalt to swell and crack, and water to bubble up through patches of grass. The culprit is a relatively small six-inch main at North...