BREAKING: Reported Coronavirus Cases in Arlington Top 100
The number of known COVID-19 cases in Arlington County has risen above the 100 mark. There are currently 104 reported cases in the county, a 20% jump from just a day earlier. There are now 1,250...
View ArticleBREAKING: Dog Dies After Apartment Fire in Penrose
Firefighters battled an apartment fire in the Penrose neighborhood Thursday morning. The fire in a second floor unit of a three-story, garden-style apartment building on the 2000 block of 4th Street...
View ArticleBREAKING: Proposed County Budget Slashed
No raises, few areas of additional spending and a couple of delayed openings. That’s the summary of County Manager Mark Schwartz’s revised budget proposal, as announced by Arlington County on Monday...
View ArticleBREAKING: Erik Gutshall Resigns from County Board
Erik Gutshall, who was hospitalized with a brain tumor earlier this year, has resigned from the Arlington County Board. Gutshall made the announcement Monday evening in a Facebook post. He has been...
View ArticleBREAKING: Police Investigating Death Behind Fairlington Fire Station
(Updated at 4:45 p.m.) Arlington County Police are conducting a death investigation in the Fairlington neighborhood. Initial reports suggest that a person with a head wound was found dead behind the...
View ArticleBREAKING: Former County Board Member Erik Gutshall Has Died
(Updated at 11:40 a.m.) Former Arlington County Board member Erik Gutshall has died after a battle with brain cancer. Gutshall’s passing comes a month and a half after the initial word that he was...
View ArticleBREAKING: Food Giveaway Causes Huge Traffic Jam on Columbia Pike
(Updated at 5 p.m.) Arlington County Police are now on scene of a big traffic jam on Columbia Pike reportedly caused by a food giveaway. Initial reports suggest that the Mega Market Express, at 5001...
View ArticleBREAKING: N. Glebe Road Blocked By Serious Crash
(Updated at 9 p.m.) N. Glebe Road is blocked between Walker Chapel and Chain Bridge by a serious crash. The single-vehicle crash happened shortly before 8 p.m. and drew a large rescue response....
View ArticleBREAKING: Sheriff’s Deputy Tests Positive for Coronavirus
An Arlington sheriff’s deputy has tested positive for COVID-19, raising fears of a wider outbreak in the county jail. In a press release Thursday night, the Arlington County Sheriff’s Office said the...
View ArticleBREAKING: Police Investigating Arlington’s Second Homicide of 2020
Police are investigating the killing of a 45-year-old Arlington man last night. Arlington County Police say the man was found shot to death in the driver’s seat of a car around 10 p.m. Thursday, in...
View ArticleBREAKING: Grocery Store Fight Leads to Suspect Stop on Route 50
(Updated at 11:20 a.m.) A fight in the Penrose Square Giant led to a series of events that closed portions of two major roads and prompted a massive police response. Police were dispatched to the...
View ArticleBREAKING: Takis Karantonis Selected as Democratic Nominee for County Board...
Takis Karantonis, the former director of the Columbia Pike Revitalization Organization, will be the Democratic nominee for County Board in the upcoming July 7 special election. With just days to...
View ArticleBREAKING: Arlington Test Positivity Rate Still Well Above 10% Goal
New data from the Virginia Dept. of Health suggests there is not nearly enough coronavirus testing being done in Arlington. The state health department has added testing data, sortable by locality, to...
View ArticleBREAKING: Arlington Parks to Partially Reopen Saturday
Exactly two months after closing amid the pandemic, Arlington’s parks are partially reopening in time for Memorial Day weekend. Arlington County made the announcement shortly before 1 p.m., noting...
View ArticleBREAKING: N. Va. Expected to Reopen, Masks Required on Friday
Arlington and Northern Virginia are expected to begin a phased reopening on Friday. “That’s the plan,” Gov. Ralph Northam said of the partial reopening during a Tuesday afternoon press conference. The...
View ArticleBREAKING: Arlington Officers Ordered to ‘Immediately Leave D.C.’
(Updated at 9:50 p.m.) Arlington County police officers who were assisting U.S. Park Police during protests in D.C. have been ordered “to immediately leave,” County Board Chair Libby Garvey tweeted...
View ArticleBREAKING: County Considering Public-Private Partnership for Second Crystal...
(Updated at 3:30 p.m.) A second entrance to the Crystal City Metro station could be built and opened by the end of 2023, under a proposal under consideration by the Arlington County Board. Developer...
View ArticleBREAKING: Crash After Police Chase Blocks I-66
The eastbound lanes of I-66 are blocked near the N. Ohio Street overpass due to the aftermath of a high-speed police chase. Initial reports suggest that Virginia State Police troopers were chasing a...
View ArticleBREAKING: Arlington County Fair Canceled
The pandemic has claimed another victim: the 2020 Arlington County Fair. The in-person fair, scheduled from Aug. 12-16, has been canceled and replaced with a “virtual format” that will run from Aug....
View ArticleBREAKING: Nearly 500 Coronavirus Cases, Dozens of Deaths at Arlington...
Nearly three-quarters of coronavirus deaths in Arlington are attributable to long-term care facilities, new data from the Virginia Dept. of Health shows. After long resisting calls to release such...
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