NEW: Avoid contact with Potomac River, Va. Dept. of Health says
Avoid contact with the Potomac River. That’s the message from the Virginia Dept. of Health, which just issued a recreational water advisory, three weeks after a large sewage pipe ruptured along the Clara Barton Parkway. Millions of gallons of raw sewage spilled into the Potomac, about four miles upstream...
Jessica Smallfield Arrested For Hospital Assault In Virginia
Officers from the Prince William County Police Department were called shortly before 9:15 a.m. on Feb. 12 to the hospital in the 2300 block of Opitz Boulevard in Woodbridge, where there were reports of a disorderly woman. Police say Woodbridge resident Jessica Clare Smallfield, 40, was acting erratically and locked...
Potomac River sewage spill deemed one of the largest wastewater spill in nation’s history
A sewage spill that began on Jan. 19 in the Potomac River has become one of the largest, if not the largest, reported wastewater spills in U.S. history. On Jan. 19, a section of the Potomac Interceptor sewer line collapsed in the Potomac River at a point off of Cabin John, Maryland, causing the release […]
Notorious Squatter Tamieka Goode Moves Back In During 90-Day Sentence Appeal
In January, a court found Tamieka Goode guilty of trespassing and breaking and entering after being accused of squatting at a multi-million dollar home in Bethesda, MD, and sentenced to a 90 days in jail. After being released on bond to appeal the sentence, a video has revealed that she...
The 10 U.S. Cities With the Highest Grocery Prices Based on New 2026 Data
Anyone who’s been to the supermarket lately knows food costs have climbed in recent years. If you’ve felt the squeeze at the checkout, you’re not imagining it. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the average price of food rose by roughly three percent in the year ending December 2025. It’s a mild uptick...
Kristin Diaz Joins WTOP As Morning Co-Anchor
Diaz joins WTOP for Audacy’s 1080 KRLD Dallas where she has co-anchored afternoons since 2020. Prior to WTOP, Diaz spent eight years as a weather anchor and then morning news anchor for KIII-TV Corpus Christi TX. She began her career in college at University of North Texas’s 88.1 KNTU Denton/Dallas.
City’s median apartment rents rise in new data, while neighboring localities post declines
Alexandria appears to be closing the gap with neighboring Arlington for priciest apartment rentals in the region, according to one data analysis. The median Alexandria apartment asking rent of $2,200 for one-bedroom units was up 5.3% year-over-year, while the median $2,740 for two bedrooms was up 3.8%, according to...
Falls Church News & Notes 2-12-2026
New Events Proposed for F.C. At City-Restauateur Meeting. A range of new events and a revival of the New Year’s Eve Watch Night were among the topics of discussion at Tuesday’s meeting between Falls Church City staff, City Council and Economic Development Authority members and City restaurant owners held at the Viget...
» ‘A Picture Tells a Thousand Words,’ Judge States, in Probable Cause For Officer...
DC Superior Court Judge Rainey Brandt found probable cause during a hearing on Feb. 9 that a defendant caused a car crash that killed a Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) officer. Jerrold Coates, 47, is charged with second-degree murder while armed for his alleged involvement in a high speed vehicle collision...
GW Hospital purchases land in Northeast DC
GW Hospital purchased an acre of vacant land in Northeast D.C. for $7.4 million last week, according to D.C. Recorder of Deeds records. District Hospital Partners LP, a partnership between Universal Health Services and GW to operate GW Hospital, signed a deal for a piece of long-vacant land on the corner of New York...
