Tag result for article published on Mon February 11 2013 12:16 pm. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: Alexandria, Delaware Park, fall, paramedic injured, paramedic injury, Virginia
A paramedic on the scene of several crashes of the Route 7 Bridge in Delaware Park was seriously injured when he fell while trying to jump across the gap between the northbound and southbound divide. He fell about 50 feet into the creek bed below at about 12:30 a.m. Monday. Police report that a driver [...]
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Posted in FD Notebook, Fire/Rescue/EMS Notebook
Tag result for article published on Thu December 08 2011 2:12 pm. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: Blacksburg, Virginia, Virginia Tech, Virginia Tech shooting
A gunman killed a police officer and another person after a traffic stop Thursday on the campus of Virginia Tech, the school said, and students and faculty were told to stay inside university buildings as police searched for the suspect. First Shots Fired Across from Ambler Johnston Hall During a traffic stop on campus, a [...]
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Posted in Crimes Notebook
Tag result for article published on Thu December 08 2011 12:44 pm. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: Blacksburg, Virginia, Virginia Tech, Virginia Tech shooting
IMPORTANT: The report below is an archive of the breaking news at the Virginia Tech shooting on Thursday, December 8, 2011. Incorrect reports are not corrected in the account to show the confusion during breaking news. A gunman killed a police officer and then killed a second person after a traffic stop Thursday on the [...]
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Posted in 24/7 Crime Alerts!, Crimes Notebook
Tag result for article published on Wed December 07 2011 8:20 am. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: DUI, DUI Arrest, DUI Fairfax City, Fairfax City, Virginia
FAA administrator Randy Babbitt resigned Tuesday as head of the Federal Aviation Administration following his arrest over the weekend on charges of drunken driving. Randy Babbitt, who had been FAA administrator since 2009, resigned Tuesday following his arrest Saturday December3, 2011 on a DUI charge. Randy was observed by police driving on the wrong side [...]
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Posted in DUI
Tag result for article published on Fri August 26 2011 3:14 pm. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: Arlington, Tropical Storm Warning, Virginia, Washington D.C.
Tropical Storm conditions are expected in Washington D.C. and Arlington, Virginia on Saturday Night. As of 11:30 a.m. EST, August 26, 2011 the governors of seven states had declared states of emergency, prompting National Guard adjutants general to upgrade Hurricane Condition levels and relocate assets in preparation for Hurricane Irene.
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Posted in Weather
Tag result for article published on Tue August 23 2011 1:49 pm. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: earthquake, Virginia, Washington D.C.
The earthquake that struck the Washington, DC area didn’t cause any major damage, but it sent bricks from a construction site raining down onto cars below in Tyson’s Corner, Virginia — a suburb of Washington D.C. that is about 14 miles west of the U.S. Capitol. A 5.8 magnitude earthquake was felt from Washington D.C. [...]
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Posted in Disaster Report
Tag result for article published on Thu April 28 2011 9:54 am. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: Oilville, tornado chase video, tornado video, Virginia
Video first shows a supercell from a distance, and then a tornado crossing Route 250 just to the west of Oilville, Virginia at 8:10 PM (Video and video below by William T. Hark). Tornadoes in Virginia were reported on the ground near Oilville — I-64 and I-295. A tornado was also reported one to two [...]
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Posted in Weather
Tag result for article published on Thu April 21 2011 8:43 pm. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: Amazon, cloud data, cloud service, Virginia
Scores of websites and Internet services like Foursquare and Reddit crashed or had limited availability Thursday because of problems at a data center run by Amazon. An outage described by Amazon as “instance connectivity, latency and error rates” was first disclosed early Thursday morning. Many Web companies use Amazon’s cloud-based service to serve their Web [...]
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Posted in Tech Alerts
Tag result for article published on Mon November 08 2010 7:26 am. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: blue light, blue light UFO, Centreville, UFO, Virginia
“A strange blue object in the sky” reported on a YouTube channel from the user’s hometown of Centreville, VA last Wednesday night after it was recorded on a Sprint HTC EVO 4G phone. The object was filmed near Lee Highway where it was spotted and moved irratically around the sky for nearly 10 minutes. Bryan [...]
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Posted in UFO Reports
Tag result for article published on Wed July 07 2010 9:17 pm. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: Arlington, homicide, Illinois, juvenile victims, murder, Virginia, youth victims, Zion
Jorge “George” Torrez, 21, a former U.S. Marine being held in an Arlington, Virginia jail for an attempted abduction on February 10, 2010 and a brutal rape February 27, 2010, is now being investigated in the May 8, 2005 (Mother’s Day) murders of of Laura Hobbs, 8 and Krystal Tobias, 9. Both girls were found [...]
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Posted in Crimes Notebook
Tag result for article published on Sun May 30 2010 9:03 am. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: abduction, abduction in progress, caught on camera, caught on video, video surveillance, Virginia
Virginia authorities are investigating the alleged abduction of a woman outside of a Target Store. Witnesses say a male and two females pulled a female into a minivan, as she fought and screamed to get away. UPDATE (2010/05/30 at 12:05pm): Girl safe with family. Jacksonville Department reports that the girl was found with her family [...]
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Tag result for article published on Wed January 20 2010 5:30 am. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: APB, Appomattox, manhunt multiple homicide, Virginia
UPDATE: Christopher Speight arrested about 7:10 a.m. Wednesday after he walked up to police officers and surrendered. Appomattox, Virginia Search underway for Christopher Speight, 39, after eight victims were found dead near Speight’s residence at 3030 Snapps Mill Road near Spout Spring, Virginia. Three victims were found dead at the residence, and four were found [...]
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Posted in APB