Alexandria News

As Internet users worldwide race to guard their computers against the potentially devastating Heartbleed security breach, criminals are moving just as quickly to exploit it.

The former email provider of National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden should be held in contempt for trying to keep its metadata out of the government's hands, the 4th Circuit ruled.

Love history and modern conveniences? You'll find both at 415 Wolfe Street. The home is on the market for $5.9 million which includes all of the furnishings, including a Steinway.

Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department 4100 Chain Bridge Rd, Fairfax, Virginia 22030 Phone: 703-246-3801, TTY: 711 and Fax:703-385-1687 Duty PIO : 703-877-3702 fire-rescue.PA-LSE@fairfaxcounty.gov News Release 14-40 Date: April 17, 2014 Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department units responded to an explosion and mobile home fire Thursday, April ... (more)

With pottery and ceramics like this, the work speaks for itself. Let Mother Earth have a ball, and leave the game at the park to see some fine art in clay.

A public defender in West Virginia says a northern Virginia man sought for questioning in three slayings is being held illegally.

What is the best thing you ever found inside an Easter egg? Chocolate? Jelly beans? Maybe a couple of quarters? None of that compares to what's inside the icy eggs served at Alexandria, Virginia's Jackson 20: booze.

For decades, Washington D.C. and its neighboring cities of Alexandria, Virginia and Bethesda, Md., have been hotbeds of the folk music scene.

Officer Peter Laboy is among a group of public safety personnel with the Alexandria Police Department, Fire Department and Sheriff's Office to be honored Thursday for heroic acts of valor.

This April 1, 2014 photo shows the ignition switch of a 2005 Chevrolet Cobalt in Alexandria, Va.

Start each day with GlobeSt.com's Washington, DC AM Alert for original coverage of the latest transactions and trends shaping the commercial real estate industry.

Fairfax County Fire and Rescue units responded to an outside fire Monday at approximately 5:30 p.m., in the Alexandria area of Fairfax County.

As the region makes a list of projects it hopes will become reality in the next decades, a conversation is beginning about adding toll lanes into Washington and elsewhere as well.

Both Republican Barbara Comstock, in the 10th district, and Democrat Don Beyer, in the 8th District, were far ahead of their opponents in raising funds for their respective contests to win party nominations.

Advocates for Fairfax County special education graduates gather at the public hearing on the budget on April 10. Photo by Janelle Germanos .

These were among incidents reported by the Alexandria Police Department. For information, call 703-838-4636 or visit www.alexandriava.gov/police .

Local Old Town Alexandria businesses - Zoe Boutique, Bishop Boutique, The Dog Park and Sugar House Day Spa and Salon - have combined forces to launch the inaugural Cobblestone Runway lookbook.

Celebrate National Park Week with a cleanup and celebration of Fort Hunt Park on the George Washington Memorial Parkway in Alexandria.

The Animal Welfare League of Alexandria and Animal Control Officers responded to the following calls: Bat in the House: In the 1000 block of Bashford Lane, on April 1, officers responded to a report of a bat that had entered a residence and had physical contact with the occupant.

Fed Chair Janet Yellen suggested Tuesday that current regulatory rules might not be enough to prevent the kind of risk-taking that triggered the 2008 financial crisis and nearly toppled the entire banking system.