Fairfax County, Va. –– What does the Mt. Vernon District need to be a more likeable, livable, safer place to live?
That question will be posed to residents who attend one of two community meetings that will focus on police and crime prevention, fire and rescue improvements, access to courts, medical care and other community services.
Fairfax County, Va. –– Divers returned to the Occoquan River this morning for the fifth time this week to search for the body of a missing boater from Lorton.
Julia Shew, 64, went missing Saturday off Sandy Run Regional Park in Fairfax County. Officials say she was an avid boater who often rowed on the Occoquan.
Update 6 p.m.
The body of 64-year-old Julia Shew still has not been found.
Update 10:30 a.m.
TBD reports the woman who went missing Saturday while boating on the Occoquan River is Julie Shew, of Lorton.
Fairfax County, Va. –– Rescue crews are back in the Occoquan River this morning searching for a 65-year-old female boater who went missing yesterday afternoon.
Crews are now searching Fountain Head Regional Park, just up stream from where the woman went missing at Sandy Run Regional Park on the Occoquan River, said Fairfax County Fire and Rescue spokesman Capt. Willie Bailey.
Update Saturday Noon
Investigators now say the death of 18-year-old Wyatt Campbell is now being investigated as a homicide.
Fairfax County, Va. –– Several Fairfax County Police officers were honored last week, including two who helped recover thousands of dollars in stolen merchandise, police said.
Officers Christopher Burbrink and Ryan Lazisky won Officer of the Year awards on Oct. 1, after they investigated a string of crimes that occurred around the Springfield Mall, at an Ulta cosmetics store – where $7,000 worth of merchandise was stolen – as well as a Home Depot store on Franconia Road, said Fairfax County police spokesman Richard Henry. (more…)
The 32-year-old victim was found by police in Alexandria at 10:24 p.m. Oct. 4, at the Huntington Station on Metro’s Yellow line, suffering a gunshot wound to his lower body, police said. (more…)
Ft. Belvoir –– The credit union is once again open for business at Fort Belvoir Elementary School.
Belvoir Federal Credit Union reopened its student-run branch at the elementary school on the Army base, as it does every October, to provide students, faculty and staff the convenience of having a credit union on campus.
Lorton, Va. –– Police in Fairfax County say the ghost cruiser works.
The unmanned marked police car was parked last month on Pohick Road, near the overpass of Interstate 95, as a part of a special traffic study.
