Thursday was a busy night of vehicular incidents for Arlington County first responders.
Less than two hours after a pair of pedestrians were struck and injured in an alleged road rage hit-and-run, another pedestrian was struck a few blocks away in Ballston. A woman crossing in the crosswalk at Fairfax Drive and N. Utah Street was hospitalized, police say, after she was struck by the driver of a pickup truck.
A driver has died after a crash in Ballston Tuesday afternoon.
The crash happened around 2 p.m. on N. Taylor Street, between Wilson Blvd and Fairfax Drive, just over a block away from the Metro station.
Arlington’s commonwealth’s attorney is returning fire to the House Judiciary Committee for questioning her handling of an ongoing criminal investigation, accusing it of overstepping its authority.
Commonwealth’s Attorney Parisa Dehghani-Tafti has declined to provide numerous documents that Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) requested regarding an investigation of a local activist critical of the Trump administration. Arguing that many of these documents are confidential, she suggested that the request is “an improper incursion” into Virginia’s sovereignty and her own authority over local cases.
A 21-year-old man is behind bars after police say he robbed the same tobacco shop in Virginia Square multiple times.
Arlington County police made the announcement early Thursday afternoon. Police say the suspect robbed the store — understood to be the Tobacco Hut at 3528 Wilson Blvd — and stabbed an employee last month, resulting in serious injuries.
Defying demands from the U.S. Department of Education, Arlington Public Schools has announced plans to retain its current policy on transgender students’ access to facilities.
In a statement to parents and an accompanying letter to the federal agency, the school system argued that it cannot legally comply with federal attempts to stop letting transgender students use bathrooms and locker rooms corresponding with their gender identity.
Arlington County police are investigating a shooting in the Arna Valley neighborhood.
Police were dispatched to an apartment on the 2500 block of S. Adams Street shortly before 9:45 p.m. for a report of a man shot in the leg. Arriving officers reported that there were several people inside the apartment, who were cooperative as police started the investigation.
By JOSH FUNK AP Transportation Writer
Over three days of sometimes contentious hearings last week, the National Transportation Safety Board interrogated Federal Aviation Administration and Army officials about a list of things that went wrong and contributed to a Black Hawk helicopter and a passenger jet colliding over Washington, D.C., killing 67 people.
The federal government is pushing Arlington Public Schools to stop allowing transgender students to use bathrooms and locker rooms corresponding with their gender identity.
The U.S. Education Department announced today that it has completed a five-month investigation into the anti-discrimination policies of five school districts in Northern Virginia, including APS.
Arlington’s newly reconstituted Human Rights Commission got to work last week with a discussion of new limits on its ability to pursue accountability for county leaders.
After the Arlington County Board fired all members of the commission last August following several confrontations between the two groups, commission Chair Jimmy McBirney used a Thursday meeting to acknowledge the entity’s “limited jurisdiction and limited scope.”
A 28-year-old Alexandria man is due in court today after he allegedly tried to pass classified documents to a foreign government.
Nathan Vilas Laatsch was employed as an IT specialist for the Defense Intelligence Agency when he “offered to provide classified information to a friendly foreign government,” according to the Justice Department.
Arlington County police are investigating a crash near the Pentagon that killed two teens Saturday night.
The crash happened around 11:20 p.m. on southbound Route 110 at Washington Blvd.
Several schools were secured this morning after a report of shots fired in the Buckingham neighborhood near Ballston.
It happened just before 9:15 a.m. At least two 911 callers reported hearing gunfire and seeing a group of teens running from the area, according to scanner traffic.
