Alexandria News

Turns out, the national search for a new superintended wasn't able to find a candidate as good as the guy who is already sitting in the chair.

Two U.S. House seats in the northern Virginia suburbs are open for the first time in decades, but the races to succeed Republican Frank Wolf and Democrat Jim Moran are shaping up very differently.

The daughter of the Alexandria couple charged with human trafficking takes us inside the home currently at the center of an FBI investigation.

Education Secretary Arne Duncam speaks to students at T.C. Williams High School in Alexandria, Va., Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2014, during a workshop to help students fill out the Free Application for Federal Student Aid.

Military prosecutor U.S. Army Lt. Col. Jay Morse waits to speak to a class at the SMU Dedman School of Law in Dallas, Thursday, Nov. 7, 2013.

Alexandria will hold its fourth Waterfront Community meeting from 6:30-9 p.m. today at United Way Worldwide Mary Gates Center, 701 N. Fairfax St. in Alexandria.

Arlington Commission on Long-Term Care Residences needs advocates. www.arlingtonva.us/aging .

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

City of Alexandria Police plan to hold a news conference Thursday afternoon about their investigation into the homicide of Ruthanne Lodato .

The Department of Justice announced today that a federal criminal complaint has been filed in the Eastern District of Virginia charging defendants Abdelkader and Hnia Amal with immigration offenses in connection with allegations that they held a woman in their home as a domestic servant for three years.

ALEXANDRIA, VA, March. 5, 2014 -- The WateReuse Association and the WateReuse Research Foundation Boards of Directors announced that Melissa L. Meeker has been named Executive Director effective Tuesday, March 25. She will replace G. Wade Miller, who announced his resignation from the company in August 2013.

These cases were handled by the Animal Welfare League of Alexandria, which provides animal control services to the city.

City Manager Rashad M. Young will host a public presentation of his proposed Fiscal Year 2015 Budget on Monday, March 17, at Beatley Central Library , at 5005 Duke St. The event is free and open to anyone who would like to attend.

Museums are often considered a staid affair: Visitors walk through walls lined with paintings, sift through historic documents, or look at artifacts behind sheets of glass.

Robert K. Freet, 72, Altoona, died Tuesday at Valley View Health and Rehabilitation Center.

A lot is known about the life and ordeal of Solomon Northup. For example, it is known that he was taken by the prominent slave trader James Burch, a pillar of commerce in Alexandria, VA, from Washington to Aquia Landing, and taken from there by stagecoach to Richmond to be sold in one of the slave markets of the city's Shockoe Bottom district.

A blast of arctic air has sent temperatures into the single digits today in some parts of the mid-Atlantic and the Northeast.

CALIBRE Systems, Inc. , a management consulting and technology services company, celebrated its 25th year of business on March 1, 2014.

"When I was little, children were not permitted in bars and liquor stores and did not attend adult parties," writes Teresa Keegan.

Two U.S. House seats in the northern Virginia suburbs are open for the first time in decades, but the races to succeed Republican Frank Wolf and Democrat Jim Moran are shaping up very differently.