Police arrested a teenager yesterday (Monday) after he reportedly brandished a gun at two victims walking on the W&OD Trail.
The two female victims were out on the trail near Glencarlyn Park around 7:15 p.m. when they encountered the suspect. According to scanner chatter, he began yelling and making threats, then pulled out a gun and cocked it.
George Mason University’s Virginia Square campus is hosting a health-centered festival this weekend, with a fun run, live fitness classes and a DJ.
The celebration, called Clarendon FitFest, kicks off at 8 a.m. on Saturday at Mason Square Plaza (3351 Fairfax Drive) with a 5K run and 2-mile walk. These will be followed by a “fitness fair” with live class demonstrations and free giveaways until 12:30 p.m.
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USCIS administers immigration benefits. In the time-honored tradition of government agencies since the days of Ur and Uruk, USCIS uses forms to collect, store, and interpret information. Immigrants complete these forms in order to obtain benefits. Most U.S. citizens have no idea what reams of paperwork these forms require. An ordinary green card application is comprised of ninety-seven pages of bare forms, which typically are supported by several hundred pages of supporting documents.
In better times, forms are a necessary evil. In the times we actually live in, forms are just another weapon with which to thwack your political opponents.
In the second iteration of the Trump Administration, USCIS has discovered a new, extremely petty way to make immigrants’ lives more difficult – by releasing new form versions which make utterly minute changes, and then decrees that yesterday’s official version is obsolete as of today.
The Office of Management and Budget, by the way, requires that all government forms have an ‘edition date’ and an ‘expiration date.’ USCIS evades this neatly by making the expiration date purely notional – the form can be valid after the expiration date, and it can be decreed obsolete at any time before or after the expiration date. (The edition date is notional, too – in the first months of the Trump Administration, USCIS persistently released forms backdated to January 20, 2025, seemingly just for the inaugural vibes.) The forms altered in the last two weeks are highlighted below.
The family of the 19-year-old killed in an October 2024 car crash has settled a wrongful death lawsuit filed against the driver and members of his family.
An Arlington circuit court judge approved the settlement between Michael Rados, the father of Nicholas Rados, and Brooks Bare in court last week, online court records showed.
Pentagon MMA has brought a special honor home to Arlington from the birthplace of Muay Thai.
The Arlington Muay Thai and Jiu Jitsu Academy is now officially a certified and registered Muay Thai Gym Partner through the Sports Authority of Thailand and the Ministry of Tourism and Sports of Thailand, making Pentagon MMA the only Muay Thai academy on the East Coast to have earned this distinction.
A year-long restoration effort has prepared one of Arlington’s most historic treasures for enjoyment by future generations.
Members of the Dr. Elisha Dick chapter of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) held a rededication ceremony for Boundary Stone Southwest 8 on April 10.
For over 400 years, humans have studied the cosmos through telescopes anchored to the ground. That changed with the rise of spaceflight; only in the last 50 years have telescopes escaped the Earth's atmosphere entirely and opened a new window on the universe.
Join us for a talk from two NASA astrophysicists on the space telescopes of yesterday, today, and tomorrow—from Hubble's nearly four decades of discovery to James Webb, Nancy Grace Roman, and more. Learn about some of their most striking discoveries and what the future holds.
Despite a strong finish, first-quarter home sales and prices in Arlington saw little movement compared to a year ago.
Aided by a strong March, a total of 448 residential properties went to closing between January and March, according to figures reported by MarketStats by ShowingTime on April 10. That’s down three homes, or 0.7%, from the 451 transactions recorded during the first quarter of 2025.
Columbia Pike Hazmat Response — Arlington firefighters responded to a hazardous materials incident in the 1500 block of Columbia Pike involving a leaking pipe with an unknown substance. Crews identified the substance as methyl pentanol and quickly mitigated the leak. [ACFD/X]
Bunny Hop Road Closures — ACPD will conduct road closures in Lyon Park and Ashton Heights on Saturday for the annual Bunny Hop 5K. Closures along N. Irving Street, N. Highland Street, N. Pershing Drive and adjacent streets will run from approximately 6:30–10 a.m. Columbia Gardens Cemetery will have a delayed opening at 9:30 a.m. [Arlington County]
Custis Trail Reopens — Bicyclists and pedestrians will have a smoother time on a roughly two-mile stretch of the Custis Trail after milling and repaving work concluded yesterday (Monday). This was two days earlier than originally anticipated, thanks to good weather. The affected area was closed in three segments beginning on March 30. —Dan Egitto
Reporter Heads Out — ARLnow and FFXnow reporter Jared Serre announced that this is his last week with the sites. “Being able to work for the Northern Virginia community… has been an incredible privilege. Thank you, always, for reading,” Serre said. [Jared Serre/X]
Falls Church Signal Woes — A traffic signal arm so corroded it can’t hold additional signage sits at the intersection of W. Broad and N. West Streets in Falls Church, which is also facing a $700,000 cut in street maintenance funding. “This is more of a public safety problem than some potholes,” Mayor Letty Hardi said. [Falls Church News-Press]
Troye Eyes VA-07 Seat — Olivia Troye, a former homeland security staffer to Vice President Mike Pence, appears to have filed to run for the 7th Congressional District as a Democrat. Troye has supported Democratic presidential candidates in recent elections despite describing herself as a Republican in the past. [Jared Serre/X]
Alexandria SRO Deal Hearing — A public hearing will be held Thursday on a revised agreement between Alexandria City Public Schools and the police department governing school resource officers. The proposed changes include removing a controversial designation of SROs as “school officials” with access to student records. [ALXnow]
School Phone Ban Tightened — Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D) signed a bill last week strengthening restrictions on student cell phone use in Virginia’s K-12 schools. The law, from state Sen. Stella Pekarsky (D-Fairfax County), requires a complete bell-to-bell ban including breaks and lunch periods, taking effect July 1. [FFXnow]
It’s Tuesday — Expect mostly sunny skies with a high near 89 degrees and southwest winds gusting up to 18 mph. Tonight’s low drops to around 69. [NWS]
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Azzi Fudd is on her way to Dallas as the No. 1 pick in the WNBA draft with a $500,000 payday waiting for the former UConn star. A record-setting six UCLA players followed her into the league.
“I’m not really sure I have words to describe that feeling, what that meant,” Fudd said of getting drafted. “I don’t think it’s fully sunk in. It’s nothing I could have imagined. The feeling of sitting with my family, with Morgan (Valley), hearing your name called, go up there. Such a surreal feeling,”
Good Monday evening, Arlington. Let’s take a look back at today’s stories and a look forward to tomorrow’s event calendar.
The following articles were published earlier today — Apr 13, 2026.
Here is what’s going on Tuesday in Arlington, from our event calendar.
It will be mostly sunny with a high of about 89°F, and a southwest wind will increase to 5 to 10 mph in the morning, with gusts potentially reaching 18 mph. Tuesday night, expect partly cloudy skies and a low of around 69°F, with southwest winds at 5 to 7 mph. See more from Weather.gov.
“Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.”
– Winston Churchill
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A 28-year-old Arlington man has been arrested and charged with attempted rape after allegedly assaulting a woman who was waiting for a rideshare in Clarendon over the weekend.
Luzvin Garcia Moran is being held without bond at the Arlington County Detention Facility on charges of attempted rape, abduction with intent to defile and assault and battery, according to ACPD.
