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WMAL(Washington)has been reporting all day that Arlington County has 146,000 registered voters not including those that registered today. With a population "just over 200,000".

At 9:37 a.m., on 9/11, those aboard Arlington Fire Department Engine 101 were headed north on I-395 for a training session near the Pentagon. Firefighter Jamie Lewis saw the American Airlines Flight 77 first. “Hey, look at the plane!” he shouted. “What’s he doing?” Nearby, on the Columbia Pike, Paramedic Claude Conde was loading a stroke victim into an ambulance when a plane roared overhead. “He had never seen a plane so close. Something wasn’t right. The airport wasn’t far away, but the plane was already at treetop level, well below the glide path it should be on for National...

Arlington authorities are searching the banks of the Potomac River below the George Washington Parkway for a motorcyclist that may have driven off a cliff. ABC 7/NewsChannel 8's Scott Thuman reports the GW Parkway is closed in both directions. United States Park Police are assisting in the search which is centered near the Spout Run Parkway. A park police spokesperson said they got a report that a motorcycle drove off the GW Parkway around 6:15 p.m. near the first overlook. -snip-

Fresh Air from WHYY, May 22, 2008 · After American Airlines Flight 77 crashed into the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001, it took firefighters three days to extinguish the flames. Firefighter Patrick Creed and journalist Rick Newman join Fresh Air to talk about the Pentagon blaze and the book they wrote about it, Firefight: Inside the Battle to Save the Pentagon on 9/11. Firefight tells the stories of the people inside the Pentagon when the plane hit, the rescue efforts that followed the attack and the three-day battle to extinguish the blaze. Firefighters faced unique circumstances, Creed and Newman write,...

An Arlington attorney was arrested and accused of soliciting a minor for sex on the Internet. Ronald Cohen, 57, was arrested Thursday and charged with soliciting sex on the Internet with a girl under the age of 15, but the girl was really a police officer. "They decided that they would set up a meeting. Mr. Cohen went through with the meeting and that's where he was met with detectives and state troopers," said Crystal Nosal, of the Arlington County Police. Cohen is a prominent attorney in Arlington, working largely in real estate. He is one of five directors of...

An Arlington man was in stable condition yesterday in Inova Fairfax Hospital after reaching into his luggage and being bitten by a snake. Officials have not determined how the reptile — preliminarily identified as a juvenile canebrake rattlesnake — got into the luggage. The man, identified by authorities only as a coach at Yorktown High School, told fire and rescue personnel that he felt a sharp pain upon reaching into his luggage after returning from a team trip to South Carolina. Upon seeing the nearly foot-long snake, the man quickly slammed shut the luggage with the snake inside, said Chief...

McLEAN, VA (NBC) - A Virginia man is recovering after finding a deadly surprise in his luggage. Andy Bacas was hospitalized after a snake he said he found in his suitcase bit the palm of his hand. Arlington County Fire and Rescue was called Bacas' home after the snake bite. Bacas, an Arlington County Public Schools coach, was taken to Inova Fairfax Hospital, where he spent the night. He is in fair condition. Bacas had just returned from a bus trip to a camp in Summerton, South Carolina with the Yorktown High School boys' crew team he coaches, and the...

There will be a joint Arlington County – Pentagon Force Protection Agency Test in Crystal City in early March,weather dependent. The Pentagon Force Protection Agency’s Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear Explosives Directorate (PFPA-CBRNE), in cooperation with Arlington County, will conduct a comprehensive evaluation of a simulated chemical release in an urban area. This cooperative test – to be conducted in the Crystal City area – will provide valuable information for both Arlington County and the Pentagon’s response to a chemical attack. The Crystal City Urban Transport Study (CCUTS) will involve releasing a colorless, odorless, tasteless, and inert tracer gas that poses...

A Howard University soccer coach and charter school math teacher was arrested in Louisa County, Virginia as part of an online sex sting. Authorities took 40-year-old Joseph E. Okoh into custody Friday after he drove from his Arlington, Va. home to meet who he believed was a 13-year-old girl that he had been talking to over the internet. Louisa County sheriff's office said the coach was talking in a Yahoo Instant Message chat room and that they were "shocked" by how quickly the suspect wanted to meet with the girl after just striking up a conversation. Okoh was arrested on...

WHEN THE new chairman of the Arlington County Board, Walter Tejada (D), announced the items on his 2008 agenda earlier this month, much attention was paid to his diversity initiative and his call to ban smoking and trans-fats. But when all is said and done, the most substantial – and possibly most controversial – part of Tejada’s agenda may end up being his support for a change in the County’s laws to allow homeowners to rent out parts of their house. "Houses can sometimes renovate their basements to turn them into a living area," he said in an interview. "Because...

ARLINGTON, Va. - A high school teacher has been arrested for soliciting sex with a minor on the Internet, according to Arlington County Police. Matthew McGuire, 29, of Alexandria was arrested Wednesday night at his home on West Myrtle Street. John Lisle, spokesman for the Arlington County Police Department, says McGuire "made contact with someone who he believed was a young girl on the Internet, and during the course of this contact, he engaged in sexually explicit communications." McGuire, a teacher and coach at Chantilly High School in Fairfax County, is being held without bond on charges of using a...

Keeping Arlington a welcoming place for immigrants is one of the top priorities of new County Board Chairman Walter Tejada (D), the first chairman of a local government in Virginia to be Latino. Tejada, himself an immigrant who moved to the U.S. from El Salvador as a teenager, laid out his agenda for 2008 earlier this week and the issue of racial and ethnic inclusion took center stage. He highlighted a pro-immigrant resolution the Board passed in 2007 and said that, as chairman, he will continue to pursue this policy of cultivating the county’s diversity. "While others were making scapegoats...

Arlington (Map, News) - New Arlington County Board Chairman J. Walter Tejada stressed broad initiatives on affordable housing, public health and inclusiveness of immigrants — legal and illegal — as he began his term Tuesday, while other board members warned of a budget crunch ahead. It is not merely enough to preserve existing affordable housing, Tejada said, but imperative to expand the programs so that more residents can live in the high-priced enclave outside the District of Columbia. “Arlington is a highly successful community where many people want to live,” said the county’s first Hispanic chairman. “I am committed as...

12/18/2007 - ARLINGTON, VA. (AFPN) -- Members of the Civil Air Patrol paid their respects to fallen Airmen at a wreath laying ceremony at the Air Force Memorial here Dec. 15. CAP Brig. Gen. Amy Courter, national commander, joined the Hagerstown, Md., unit at the memorial to "offer support in the spirit the Civil Air Patrol always has." "We came out here to honor Airmen at their memorial," General Courter said. "Of our 23,000 cadets across America, to bring some of those cadets here is just a terrific honor." The ceremony included several members of the unit's honor guard, a...

American Thinker has extensively covered the troubling links between Ron Paul's campaign and neo-Nazis. For our trouble we were blasted by some critics, and subjected to a torrent of abusive letters from Ron Paul supporters. But now, an apparently genuine Neo-Nazi, Bill White, Commander of the American National Socialist Workers Party is fed up with the campaign's mild distancing and disavowal, and claims on a neo-Nazi website, the Vanguard News Network, that he has attended meetings with Paul at both a Thai restaurant in Arlington, and in his official office. Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs has picked-up the story...

Both Congressman Paul and his aides regularly meet with members of the Stormfront set, American Renaissance, the Institute for Historic Review, and others at the Tara Thai restaurant in Arlington, Virginia, usually on Wednesdays... I have attended these dinners, seen Paul and his aides there, and been invited to his offices in Washington to discuss policy.

Arlington County's chief deputy sheriff has died in a car crash. Fifty-three-year-old Dennis Webb died Saturday afternoon in Prince William County when an out of control Jeep hit an SUV then returned to the road and hit Webb's car. Police say that 47-year-old Scott Edgell of Stafford was charged with reckless driving. They say that speed was a factor in the accident. No one else was hurt in the crash. Arlington Sheriff Beth Arthur says that Webb was one of the greatest guys you'd ever want to meet. She says he joined the department after retiring from a 22-year career...

Big Government: Washington pundits moan about the "rich getting richer" on Wall Street. But new census data reveal the seat of wealth in this country has shifted to their own backyard. The nation's capital has replaced Silicon Valley and the New York area as the center of affluence in America. The wealthiest Americans are no longer just investors and entrepreneurs, but federal workers and contractors. There's something really rotten about this trend. How can the seat of government in a capitalist society double as its seat of wealth? The late Milton Friedman, who warned about the growing mix of government...

In a letter to the Pentagon, Republicans Frank R. Wolf and Thomas M. Davis III and Democrat James P. Moran Jr. said they had been contacted by “numerous constituents gravely concerned” about their 2008 pay raise under the new program, called the National Security Personnel System or NSPS. “We must keep our promises to our employees,” the three wrote in the letter, sent last week. “It would be difficult if not impossible to recruit or retain employees if they knew they could not rely on their promised salaries.” The Pentagon, in a memo last month, said that about 110,000 employees...

ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) - Elected officials in northern Virginia's most famously liberal county have strongly criticized their counterparts elsewhere in the region over efforts to crack down on illegal immigration. Tuesday's rebuke from Arlington County came as Prince William County considered how to implement an anti-illegal immigration resolution passed over the summer. Prince William Police Chief Charlie T. Deane presented the county board with his plan for checking the immigration status of people detained by police for misdemeanors and traffic violations. The Prince William board passed a resolution in July instructing police to check the immigration status of all violators...

Resolution Supporting Arlington's Newcomers

Rep. Paul Gillmor (R-Ohio) has died. Details on his passing have not yet been made public. Check RollCall.com for further updates.

Here is a photograph of the Ron Paul 2008 national office in Arlington, Virginia. We have the entire second floor; about 3,000 square feet. The photograph was taken around 6:00 o'clock this morning.

ARLINGTON, Virginia, August. 28, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Angry homosexual activists harassed and assaulted ex-homosexuals at the Arlington County Fair last week, according to an ex-gay educational and support group. Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays (PFOX) reports its volunteers were distributing education materials on same-sex attraction and awareness of ex-homosexuals at their fair booth. Homosexual activists approached them and created a disturbance, spewing obscenities and dashing materials from the exhibit table. The group demanded that PFOX leave the fairgrounds, recognize "same-sex spouses" and rejected arguments that homosexuals could change their sexual orientation although they admitted they knew heterosexuals who had done...

Saying Hail Marys over a pint of Guinness has become a popular happy hour activity for some local Catholics. More than 200 people in their 20s and 30s packed into Pat Troy's Ireland's Own pub in Alexandria to eat, drink and pray alongside friends Monday night. Archbishop Edwin F. O'Brien, 68, who recently was named archbishop of Baltimore, led a dialogue about the mystery of evil at the kickoff session of this summer's "Theology on Tap" sessions. The Catholic Diocese of Arlington brings priests and lay speakers to local bars once a week to attract young Catholics eager to converse...

Arlingtonians Remember 9/11 in Their Own Ways by Kristen Armstrong Sun Gazette Monday, September 11, 2006 ...The fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks was commemorated Monday in a ceremony that not only honored those who died, but saluted those whose actions on 9/11 made a difference. ... But Moran then maneuvered into more sensitive ground, suggesting that the country was not safer and intimating that the Bush administration's foreign policy was headed in the wrong directions. “More people hate us,” Moran said, a comment that drew an outburst from the crowd. “My brother died on 9/11 -...

CAIR to Host Dinner for Former President of Iran In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CAIR TO HOST DINNER FOR FORMER PRESIDENT OF IRAN Khatami to speak on 'The Dialogue of Civilizations: Five Years After 9/11' (WASHINGTON, D.C., 8/24/06) - On Friday, September 8, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) will host a dinner for former Iranian President Mohammad Khatami at the Marriott Crystal Gateway in Arlington, Va. The theme of his address at the CAIR dinner will be "The Dialogue of Civilizations: Five Years After 9/11." Khatami will be in Washington, D.C., to...

Wasn't Arlington (the Pentagon) attacked on 9/11? From the program: Saturday, Sept. 9 10:00 a.m. - noon & 1:30 - 3:30 p.m. - Film Screening: Life the award-winning video series that tackles globalization and its effect on ordinary people in countries throughout the world. The films suggest that everyone on this planet has a social responsibility to everyone else, and that all should be afforded the same human rights and a share in the fruits of the new world economy. Screening and discussion. Location: Central Library Auditorium, 1015 N. Quincy St. www.bullfrogfilms.com/catalog/ls.html Monday, Sept. 11 2:00 p.m. - Lecture: The...

In 1980, Jay Fisette was 24 years old, living in San Francisco and ready to tell his parents that he was gay. It was an anxious moment. "I want to explain to you why I came to live here," he recalled telling his mother. She interrupted, her tone full of disappointment. "I know why. You went there to play water polo." As it turned out, his mother wasn't entirely wrong.

An Arlington man who was shot to death outside the Pentagon Row shopping center early Friday was an Army veteran who participated in the 2003 invasion of Iraq, family members said yesterday. Spec. Paul Matthew Zeller, 24, joined the Army two weeks before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. A mortarman with the 82nd Airborne Division, he was honorably discharged in September 2004. Zeller's family said he worked long hours at the College Park Honda dealership, commuting between Arlington County and Maryland on Metro. They said Zeller was walking home from the Pentagon City Station just after midnight when he was...

County Board members on June 13 authorized Sheriff Beth Arthur to, in the future, purchase white vehicles, rather than the brown vehicles currently purchased by the Sheriff's Office. Arthur had sought permission because it is becoming more difficult to find vehicles that are painted brown at the factory, and purchasing vehicles of other colors and then painting them brown was both expensive and time-consuming. State law requires all sheriff's office vehicles statewide to be brown for identification, but permits white (with a five-pointed gold star on each door) if the governing body of a locality agrees. County Board Chairman Chris...

County Board member Walter Tejada joined elected Latino officials from across the region last week to announce the start of a voter registration drive, with the goal of getting tens of thousands of Spanish-speaking citizens to the polls this November for the first time. Throughout the summer and fall, Tejada and other Latino activists will canvass Arlington neighborhoods speaking to residents about the importance of voting and helping them acquire the necessary paperwork to register. "We have got to educate the community about the nuances of being able to vote," Tejada said during a June 12 press conference. "We have...

...A debate over whether to place speed humps on North 35th Street in Arlington County has generally pitted the families in the modest brick ramblers in one neighborhood against the empty-nesters living in the white-columned homes of another. The parents say their kids need safer streets; the other side says the humps are unsafe. Herring describes the pitched battle as "class warfare at its worst." Community meetings have turned into shouting matches worthy of Britain's House of Commons. "Keep Kids Alive -- Drive 25" signs have been stolen from yards. Fliers and counterfliers are flying. A signature drive was launched....

What were they thinking? That must have been the reaction of school officials, when they learned that seniors in the H-B Woodlawn Program planned to distribute liquor-style flasks to those attending the school's annual informal prom. Whatever the students were thinking, what school officials were thinking, it turns out, could be summed up in three words: “No you don't.” “Students didn't make the right decision, so we had to step in,” Woodlawn principal Frank Haltiwanger told the Sun Gazette. “It was a very inappropriate prom gift, and an action taken by a small group of students without the knowledge, or...

Arlington, VA - One day after Liberty Counsel filed suit in Arlington Circuit Court on behalf of Tim Bono and his company against Arlington County Human Rights Commission, the Commission dismissed the complaint filed by lesbian activist Lilli M. Vincenz, stating there was no valid claim of discrimination against Mr. Bono. Ms. Vincenz filed a complaint with the Commission under the county's nondiscrimination ordinance, when Bono Film and Video refused to copy Gay and Proud and Second Largest Minority for Ms. Vincenz due to its content. Mr. Bono's company does not duplicate material that is obscene, could embarrass employees, hurt...

McLEAN, Va. - An Arlington businessman who had been ordered by a local government commission to duplicate videos of gay-rights marches that he found offensive won a reprieve after the commission rescinded its initial order. Tim Bono, of Bono Film and Video, sued the Arlington County government last week after its Human Rights Commission found him in violation of the county's anti-discrimination laws. The commission said he denied services to a gay-rights activist based on her sexual orientation. The activist, Lilli Vincenz, had asked Bono to duplicate some archival footage of early gay-rights marches that she had on Betamax tapes....

A film-and-video lab owner has filed suit against a county Human Rights Commission for ordering him to duplicate two pro-homosexual videos produced by a lesbian activist. Tim Bono and Bono Film and Video, Inc. of Arlington, Va., is challenging the authority of the Arlington County Human Rights Commission, the Arlington County Board and Arlington County. The controversy began when Tim Bono was contacted by lesbian activist Lilli Vincenz via e-mail to reproduce documentaries entitled "Gay and Proud" and "Second Largest Minority." Bono told Vincenz his company does not duplicate material that is obscene, could embarrass employees, hurt the company's reputation...

ARLINGTON — The Select Board plans to ask the Fire Department to burn down a town-owned house in a bid to drive out a family of "squatters." Chairman Keith Squires said he hoped social service agencies could assist the family at 132 Andrews Lane. Among the six people living there are an elderly widow and two small children. Three of the family members are deaf, and the man who lost the house for failing to pay his property taxes has serious vision problems. But members of the Select Board said Wednesday they had to act soon. Daniel Harvey pointed out...

Knowing the 8th Congressional District tends to vote overwhelmingly Democratic, neither Tom O'Donoghue, 41, or Mark Ellmore, 47, wants to be seen as a hardline Republican. "I don't have an elephant tattooed on my back end," O'Donoghue said. "I'm reaching out to labor organizations and African-Americans," Ellmore said. "I'm not interested in playing politics, I'm only interested in being the best I can be and spreading my message of hope and unity." The two candidates, both Alexandria residents, are vying for the GOP nomination to challenge U.S. Rep. Jim Moran (D) in the fall. But first they will face each...

ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) - Spec. Maxwell Ramsey made small kissing sounds as he tried to coax Wylie, a muscular black Percheron horse, over to the platform where the soldier stood. He swung the metal and plastic limb that is his new left leg over Wylie's back and sat down in the saddle. "Relax your leg. Take a deep breath. Remember you are sitting on a big old cushion," Mary Jo Beckman, a therapeutic riding instructor, said to Ramsey as he and Wylie headed out into a dusty yard at Fort Myer. The black and white horses that usually pull caissons...

Any advice from local conservatives for a new transplant who dresses 100% Western and is threatened frequently by the local gang bangers on the trains and busses (I guess all that "tolerance" BS does not extend to white people)? I live in Arlington Virginia and work in Old Town Alexandria VA and am trying to find a cheap place to live. My family is in Hot Springs AR and I am just trying to find a place with no Salvadorean or black gangs controlling the buildings where I can live without roaches and threats of crime until I build up...

WANTED: CHRISTIAN BUSINESS OWNERS IN ARLINGTON COUNTY, VIRGINIA...  FPN is working to organize a lawsuit on behalf of business owners in Arlington County, Virginia who feel the situation described in this alert poses a threat to their own religious liberties. Participants will NOT be charged for legal representation. If you or someone you know owns a business in Arlington County, Virginia and would like to be an ANONYMOUS plaintiff in this religious liberties case, please click here to express interest in learning more. Your name and contact information will remain STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL.    ------------------------------------------------------------   Virginia County 'Investigates' Christian Who Refused to Reproduce Homosexual Propaganda Family Policy Network Considers Legal Action...

With new home slaes down 10.5 percent in February, and with home prices declining for the fourth month in a row, it's high time for a sober look at the consequences of a major housing correction. The Federal Reserve, Wall Street economists, and other observers of the U.S. economy are closely watching the housing market because it has been a key driver of economic growth over the past several years. Roughly a quarter of the jobs created since the 2001 recession have been in construction, real estate, and mortgage finance. Even more important, consumers have withdrawn $2.5 trillion in equity...

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ARLINGTON HALL STATION, Va., March 20, 2006 – Soldiers, families and the people who support them gathered at the Army National Guard Readiness Center here March 17 for the installation's first Open House focusing on the military family. America Supports You and Military OneSource manned booths at the first ever "Open House" for military families at the Army National Guard Readiness Center in Arlington, Va., Mar. 17. Pictured here, representatives from National Guard Bureau Family Programs answer questions. Photo by Paul X. Rutz  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. This town-hall-style meeting with senior leadership and several family support...

Arlington, Va. (AP) - Some big changes are coming for Roman Catholics in Northern Virginia. Arlington Bishop Paul Loverde said girls and women will now be allowed to serve at the altar in parishes. For years, that's been the case everywhere in the country except for two locations: Lincoln, Nebraska, and Arlington. The Arlington Diocese only allowed females to serve in places like hospitals, nursing homes and colleges, but some parishes now want that option, Loverde added. Also, the bishop said two churches, including Saint Lawrence in Alexandria, will be allowed to celebrate the 1962 Latin Mass. Loverde is the...

February 20, 2006, 7:20 a.m. “He Shall Direct Thy Paths to the Weapons of Mass Destruction.” The former U.N. inspector behind the “Saddam Tapes” says God revealed WMD sites to him. William Tierney, the former United Nations weapons inspector who unveiled the so-called "Saddam Tapes" at a conference in Arlington, Virginia, Saturday, told National Review Online that God directed him to weapons sites in Iraq and that his belief in the importance of one particular site was strengthened when a friend told him that she had a vision of the site in a dream. In his presentation at the so-called...

Tape recordings released over the weekend show that Saddam Hussein had an active nuclear weapons program at least as recently as 2000 - but the press has decided the bombshell development isn't newsworthy. Speaking at the Intelligence Group Summit in Arlington, Va., Saddam tapes translator Bill Tierney revealed that in one recorded conversation, the Iraqi dictator can be heard discussing a plan to enrich uranium using a technique known as plasma separation. Though U.S. weapons inspectors found that 1.8 tons of Saddam's 500 ton uranium stockpile had been partially enriched, they failed to turn up any evidence of an ongoing...

Church Holds Ceremony for Same-Sex Couples More than three dozen couples exchange vows at Arlington’s Unitarian Universalist church. The Unitarian Universalist Church of Arlington voted to support marriage equality in 2004. At the end of a week that saw legislators in Richmond give their blessing to a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage, Patricia Joyner and Rebecca Lovelace cemented their five-year relationship by publicly exchanging vows for the first time. The couple were joined by more than 50 same-sex partners and heterosexual couples who reaffirmed their commitment to each other during an emotional ceremony at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Arlington...

The Washington region's emergency managers are looking to experiment with sirens to alert them to terrorist attacks. Under a federally funded pilot program, Arlington County and Alexandria will each buy as many as 15 sirens to mount on telephone poles, buildings and other structures in several neighborhoods. The locations will provide a test to see whether sirens can alert people that cell phones, radio stations and other devices can't. An engineer and siren expert for the Department of Homeland Security John Fuoto says people who are outdoors during an attack are most at risk because they're least able to find...