The Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department is reaching out to residents by hosting various activities at several county recreation centers this Saturday (May 19) from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in support of Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Week. This year’s theme is EMS: More Than a Job, A Calling. The theme reflects that EMS providers don’t choose the field for pay, comfortable working conditions or nine to five work hours. They have a true calling to help and serve [...]
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May 12, 2012 5:31 pm | By: Fairfax News
May 11, 2012 11:49 am | By: James Limbach
ITT Exelis, which spun off from ITT Corporation in 2011 and established its headquarters in the Tysons Corner area of Fairfax County, becomes the 10th Fairfax County company to crack Fortune magazine’s list of the 500 largest publicly traded companies in the United States. The 2012 list is in the May 21 edition of Fortune and is available online. Fairfax County has more companies on the prestigious list than 34 states. Fairfax also is in the top 10 counties with [...]
A federal audit of the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority, which operates Dulles and Reagan National Airports and is building the Metrorail Silver Line, finds fault with the board’s policies for awarding contracts and controlling travel and entertainment expenses. The report was requested by Rep. Frank Wolf, D-Va., who said he was “deeply troubled” by the findings, which he said ”raise significant concerns about the current board’s policies and procedures, including contracting practices, ethics and transparency.” “This demands immediate action,” Wolf said [...]
U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood today announced that new nonstop flights will be available to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport from four cities that, because of distance, had earlier been ineligible for nonstop service. The U.S. Department of Transportation selected Alaska Airlines for service to Portland, Ore.; JetBlue Airways for San Juan, Puerto Rico; Southwest Airlines for Austin, Texas; and Virgin America for San Francisco. This is Virgin America’s first service at Reagan National. The other carriers currently have only [...]
Police in the McLean district have arrested two suspects in connection with the report of a rape in the Merrifield area last Friday (May 11) morning. On Sunday, officers charged Rivelino Villegas-Posada, 34, of no fixed address, with rape and aggravated malicious wounding. Today, they charged Jubencio Castro, 24, of no fixed address, with rape and aggravated malicious wounding. The 50-year-old victim reported being sexually assaulted at about 1:10 AM [...]
Loudoun County has a choice. It can remain a fairly typical suburban economy or it can become the Washington area’s powerhouse, developing an export-based economy that would be 10 or more times greater than its current economic output, says a George Mason University economist. The deciding factor, according to Stephen S. Fuller, Director of GMU’s Center for Regional Analysis, is whether the county goes ahead with construction of the Metrorail Silver Line from Reston’s Wiehle Avenue past Dulles International Airport [...]
Police have arrested a Centreville man in connection with destruction of property at the construction site of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Mosque, located at 4555 Ahmadiyya Drive. Officers arrested Trenton M. Carter, 18, of 14406 Round Lick Lane in the Centreville area and charged him with felony destruction of property. The investigation continues and officials say additional arrests are possible. On Monday, January 30 around 8:40 AM, police responded to a destruction of property report at the construction site of [...]
Twenty-eight individuals have been arrested for their alleged roles in a cocaine trafficking ring based in Northern Virginia that uses couriers to regularly import large amounts of cocaine from Honduras hidden in shoes and decorative wooden frames. Members of the trafficking ring have allegedly wired more than $1 million from the United States back to cocaine suppliers in Honduras. Neil H. MacBride, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, and James W. McJunkin, Assistant Director in Charge of the [...]
Police in the Franconia district are investigating the report of an abduction and robbery that occurred around 1:30 this (Wednesday, May 9) morning in the 6100 block of Cumberland Avenue. The victim, a 22-year-old man, was coming out of his home when he was approached by three men, one of whom displayed a handgun and forced the victim into his own vehicle — a red, 1998 Honda, four-door. All three suspects got into the vehicle as well. They drove the [...]
