A man who shot someone in Clarendon and fled the country, and then escaped again while awaiting extradition, has been sentenced to 17 years in prison.
Taha Zouheir was sentenced Friday in Arlington Circuit Court to 17 years of incarceration followed by three years of probation, according to the Arlington County Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Office.
Fights broke out as police and mall security cleared a large group of teens out of Ballston Quarter on Friday night.
Officers were dispatched to the 4200 block of Wilson Blvd shortly after 9 p.m. Friday (Oct. 9) to help security get the group off the property, according to preliminary incident summaries the Arlington County Police Department provided to ARLnow.
A man accused of touching multiple women’s hair without their consent on the Metro has been released from jail in D.C., but is now in custody in Arlington.
Bryan Betancur, 29, is set for a bench trial in General District Court on Oct. 27, Kara Simon, a spokesperson for the Arlington Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Office, told ARLnow.
Glass bottles thrown from a balcony in the Clarendon area shattered the rear windshield of a parked car with someone inside Saturday night.
Arlington County police were called to the 3100 block of 10th Street N. around 10:30 p.m. After arriving on scene, officers determined a man had thrown the bottles from high up on a residential balcony, but no one was hurt.
Two cookie shops in Clarendon and Shirlington have shuttered amid closures of Chip City locations nationwide.
The New York-based cookie purveyor no longer lists any of its three Virginia locations on its website. No signage indicating the closures is up at 2700 Clarendon Blvd or 4014 Campbell Avenue, but the sites are listed as “permanently closed” on Google and multiple tipsters have contacted ARLnow about what they say was a sudden change.
Clarendon Day is back this weekend, bringing music, vendors and several road closures around the neighborhood’s Metro station.
The event, which starts at 11 a.m. on Saturday, will feature live rock, yacht rock and ska music through the day, in addition to 175 vendors and booths from local organizations.
Police used a Taser to subdue a man who allegedly advanced on an officer with a broken bottle outside a Clarendon business Saturday morning.
Officers were called to a reported assault in the 2700 block of Wilson Blvd around 11 a.m. They determined that a man had walked into the business, broken a glass bottle and begun waving it around, according to the Arlington County Police Department.
Santa Rosa Taqueria is planning to open in Clarendon within the next few weeks, bringing tacos and a rotating margarita bar to the former Seamore’s space.
The second Santa Rosa Taqueria location, which joins another that opened in D.C. in 2017, plans to open by early October, Micheline Mendelsohn, deputy CEO for Sunnyside Restaurant Group, told ARLnow.
Clarendon Day is just a few weeks away, returning with live music, food and even more vendors than last year.
The free, annual street festival will take place around the Clarendon Metro station on Saturday, Sept. 26.
After a relocation and a hiatus lasting a couple months, Il Radicchio is preparing to host a soft opening at its new spot tomorrow (Friday).
The longtime Italian restaurant will reopen at 4 p.m. at 2909 Wilson Blvd, owner Rishi Nagpal told ARLnow. The menu will be almost entirely the same as it was, as Nagpal intends to carry on the tradition of “a real pasta house” dating back over 30 years.
Bobby Lee, the entrepreneur behind Mister Days who helped shape the D.C. area’s food and drink scene over decades of business ventures, has died.
Lee, 87, passed away over the weekend, his family confirmed to ARLnow. His death brings a final closure to Mister Days Sports Rock Cafe, a popular restaurant and bar that reopened in Clarendon in 2024 after more than four decades in Arlington and D.C.
A new restaurant featuring cuisine from central China has been off to a successful start in Clarendon.
Xi’an Famous Foods has been attracting big crowds since it opened earlier this month. The location at 2800 Clarendon Blvd has been even busier than the chain’s bustling storefronts in New York City, CEO Jason Wang told ARLnow.
