Arlington News

Arlington police are trying to track down a man accused of raping a 13-year-old girl.

By Catholic News Service ARLINGTON, Va. - As Virginia prepared to execute convicted sniper John Allen Muhammad, Bishop Paul S. Loverde of Arlington called for mercy and urged that Muhammad's sentence be commuted to life in prison without possibility of parole.

A single hole-in-one is a big enough dream for most golfers. But two in one round? That's some luck.

Maj. Nidal Hasan, an Army psychiatrist, was set to be shipped overseas. The Army says he opened fire at the Fort Hood Army post Thursday, killing 12 people.

ARLINGTON, Va. - Republicans swept to a landslide victory in Virginia Tuesday night, attracting independent voters who backed President Barack Obama one year ago.

Jay Fisette won another term on the Arlington County Board. Enlarge Photo Interactive Results Map Get county-by-county vote totals for the Virginia governor's race, compare results with past elections and see how party lines have shifted through the years.

ON OCTOBER 30 BETWEEN 7:45 AM AND 7 PM, AN UNKNOWN PERSON BROKE INTO A RESIDENCE AND STOLE VARIOUS ITEMS.

Angela Lansbury will receive Signature Theatre's annual Stephen Sondheim Award at a black-tie gala dinner in Washington, DC, in April 2010, artistic director Eric Schaeffer announced.

The casket of Army Staff Sgt. Joshua M. Mills is carried by a horse drawn caisson as it is escorted by the honor guard at his burial services at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., Tuesday.

U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. David Raymond Baker was buried Tuesday at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., on Tuesday morning.

The US has officially opened a state-of-the-art unified command centre for government cyber security in Arlington, Virginia.

Grunley Construction Co. Inc. has won a $7.8 million contract to renovate the Thomas Jefferson Middle School in Arlington.

ARLINGTON, Va. a ' The secretive Pentagon agency that brought us the Internet and tried to bring us bomb-sniffing bees, warrior exoskeletons and terrorism futures trading is moving to a new location.

ARLINGTON, Va. - The highly charged race for Virginia Attorney General has only grown more intense in these final days after Republican Ken Cuccinelli made comments about gay rights that led to the Washington Post's editorial page labeling him a "bigot." Cuccinelli told the Virginian Pilot newspaper "My view is that homosexual acts ... are wrong.

US Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano joins staff members and members of the U.S. Congress at the ribbon-cutting ceremony of the new U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team/National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center facility October 30, 2009 in Arlington, Virginia.

The Homeland Security Department on Friday will open a new cybersecurity center near Washington to house some of the departmenta s computer defense programs, DHS announced today.

The Arlington County Police Department has been awarded first place in a national traffic safety competition.

The Arlington County Gang Task Force hosts soccer tournaments as a positive alternative to gang activity.

The superintendent at Arlington County Public Schools says there have been changes to bus drop-off procedures after two incidents involving kindergarten children raised safety concerns.

The Arlington County Police Department is investigating a critical accident that occurred on Arlington Boulevard last night.