Alexandria VA

Dozens of local business owners are getting a spotlight for the District’s Black Restaurant Week campaign, which is taking place across the nation’s capital and surrounding Maryland and Virginia counties now through July 27. The organization behind Black Restaurant Week offers small, minority-owned businesses with...

The dramatic display that lit up the skies Wednesday night really did include 26,000 lightning strikes. Erik Taylor, a meteorologist with the Baltimore-Washington Office of the National Weather Service, said the number of strikes were recorded “from Western Maryland, East and West Virginia, down into Northern and...

Prince George's County police are investigating after a man was found shot to death inside a Bowie home early Saturday.

A man was found dead at a Duke Street bus stop early Saturday morning (July 19), prompting a temporary closure of westbound lanes as police investigated the incident. Alexandria Police reported that an adult male was discovered unresponsive at the bus stop at Duke Street and Sweeley Street around 6:15 a.m. The...

HomeGrown: A Daytime Eatery, is set to open in Old Town Alexandria on Monday, Aug. 11. The restaurant is located at The Archer, (formerly the Lorien Hotel) at 1600 King St. Here's a little bit more about the restaurant, from an earlier interview published in November, when we first learned the restaurant was coming...

WASHINGTON – Amstrong Chapajong, 38, of Cheverly, Maryland, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court to one count of health care fraud after billing the District of Columbia’s Medicaid program for services never provided. The plea was announced by U.S. Attorney Jeanine Ferris Pirro, FBI Assistant Director in...

While recovering from hip surgery a couple of winters ago, I dragged myself and my gear out to Great Falls on the Potomac River, Virginia side near Washington, DC, on a cold, overcast January day to try out long-ish exposures of moving water using my new circular ND filter. I...

The Washington Post asked “What’s the best sandwich in DC?” and split the results into eleven different categories. In the Gyro category the winner came from Montgomery County based local chain– The Big Greek Cafe. In early March, the Washington Post set out to find the...

A jury found a Georgetown Law professor guilty of assaulting his wife in front of their children, following years of abuse, authorities announced.

He was funny. He was kind. He was a great dancer. And now, he's gone. Darlyn Florian-Granados, 18, of Alexandria, died after being shot at a party in Maryland, and a woman is now facing murder charges in connection with his death. The shooting happened at approximately 3:20 a.m. on...