Alexandria VA

ALEXANDRIA, VA — Before we begin the annual debate over how much bread, milk and toilet paper one household actually needs for a possible snowflake, a question: What kind of winter are we getting?. We checked two almanacs. Naturally, we now have two answers. One suggests keeping the rain...

ARLINGTON, Va. (7News) — Amazon has backed off of plans to develop a massive data center complex on the former site of George Washington University's Ashburn, Virginia, campus, according to the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors. During Tuesday's general meeting, Board Supervisors said it will work with the company...

Maryland was one of nine states and the District of Columbia that lost jobs in the year ending in September, according to a report released Tuesday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Hit hard by the Trump administration’s cuts to the federal workforce, the District of Columbia suffered the...

ALEXANDRIA, VA — The black-and-white portrait does not reveal the contradictions in Monday Robinson’s life. Born enslaved in Virginia in 1778, Robinson gained his freedom, became active in his community and conducted business with Belle Grove Plantation in Middletown. But the record then takes a turn that is...

WASHINGTON (7News) — Red Line riders have been repeatedly hit with delays so far this week, none more serious than when a train with a brake problem broke down near Cleveland Park during Monday evening rush hour. In radio communications recorded by OpenMHz.com, the operator of a Shady Grove-bound...

WASHINGTON (7News) — An accused MS-13 gang member with a lengthy criminal history was arrested in Washington, D.C., by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, according to the Department of Homeland Security. Emerson Jossiel Calderon-Hernandez, an illegal immigrant from El Salvador, was picked up on Oct. 13. Calderon-Hernandez was...

Democratic Socialist Glen Pine is running in next June’s Democratic primary for Virginia’s 5th District. Pine has spent years organizing and protesting with Alexandrians for Palestinian Human Rights, DeFlock ALX and ICE Out of Alexandria, and says that an extensive door-knocking campaign, backed by a wide network of grassroots supporters, will help him beat incumbent Del. R. Kirk McPike.

The Alexandria City Council has approved a plan to convert a vacant lot and a one-story barbershop in the Parker-Gray Historic District into five four-story townhomes. Despite a 6-0 approval from the Planning Commission, Council deferred the plan last month to have more discussions with the property owner about keeping neighborhood-serving commercial businesses on the site. A representative of the property owner told Council that the most interested buyers were townhome developers.

A 33-year-old Alexandria man is being held without bond after allegedly robbing a West End grocery store with an air gun. On Sunday, Sept. 20, the manager of the Safeway at 299 S. Van Dorn Street reported that two men walked into the store and waited at the customer service counter, where cigarettes are sold. The manager said that one of the men seemed drunk and displayed a firearm, assaulted him, and then stole a pack of cigarettes and a bottle of beer from the store, according to a recently re

Seven years ago, Spotsylvania County resident Shamila Beslow was lying in a bed at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, the result of contracting Guillain-Barré Syndrome. The rare neurologic disease with no cure had left the 45-year-old temporarily paralyzed from the waist down. One day, a stranger walked into her room and told her that her story was going to touch a lot of lives. Beslow still doesn't know whether she was a social worker or hospital employee and what exactly she meant by that comment. Bu