Source: washingtonpost.com - — 10th April 2009 at 09:48 (about 2123 days ago)
At Virginia Tech, newly arrived international students from China are usually paired with other international students who have been at the school at least one semester to help them acclimate to their new environment. Xin Yang arrived on campus Jan. 8 and, university officials said, met her assigned buddy, Haiyang Zhu. #
Source: washingtonpost.com - — 10th April 2009 at 09:48 (about 2123 days ago)
In a recorded 911 call played in court yesterday, a shaken 35-year-old Arlington County man said he had just killed a man. What he said next persuaded the judge to dismiss the murder charge against him: "He was going to kill me." #
Source: washingtonpost.com - — 10th April 2009 at 09:48 (about 2123 days ago)
Xin Yang, 22, arrived at Virginia Tech on Jan. 8 to begin her graduate studies in accounting. On a school form asking for emergency contacts, she gave two names: her mother and a fellow graduate student from China, Haiyang Zhu. About 7 p.m. Wednesday, as the two students drank coffee at the Au Bon Pain cafe on campus, without so much as a harsh word, a raised voice or a scream, Zhu pulled out a kitchen knife and cut off her head, authorities said. #
Source: washingtonpost.com - — 10th April 2009 at 09:48 (about 2123 days ago)
He didn't like to work nights, not when he could be at home in Fairfax County with his wife and three children. But it was inauguration weekend. Visitors were swarming into Washington. There was money to be made. #
Source: washingtonpost.com - — 10th April 2009 at 09:48 (about 2123 days ago)
After fatally shooting her husband last March, Marysusan Giguere claimed self-defense three times: to the 911 call taker, to the first officer at the scene and to a social worker. Now, a Fairfax County jury is deliberating whether the shooting was justifiable -- or murder. #
Source: washingtonpost.com - — 10th April 2009 at 09:48 (about 2123 days ago)
Crime in Loudoun County increased in most major categories last year, according to preliminary statistics, and a Loudoun County Sheriff's Office spokesman said population growth and the deepening recession were probably factors in the trend. #
Source: washingtonpost.com - — 10th April 2009 at 09:48 (about 2123 days ago)
Lawmakers and prison advocates say the Virginia Parole Board has virtually stopped granting parole to thousands of inmates convicted of crimes before the state halted the practice more than a decade ago. #
Source: washingtonpost.com - — 10th April 2009 at 09:48 (about 2123 days ago)
About six weeks before a 13-year-old girl was found dead in a Woodbridge area creek bed, the developmentally disabled child showed up outside a neighbor's home with a gash on her head, wearing only her underwear and wrapped in a tarp, the neighbor said. #
Source: washingtonpost.com - — 10th April 2009 at 09:48 (about 2123 days ago)
Thirteen-year-old Alexis Glover was missing again, the third time in less than a month. Her mother called Prince William County sheriff's deputies and police, triggering an extensive search for the developmentally disabled girl. #
Source: washingtonpost.com - — 10th April 2009 at 09:48 (about 2123 days ago)
For years, mainstream Montgomery County has been generally accepting of illegal immigrants, and county leaders followed suit, pledging not to enforce immigration laws even as police agencies elsewhere in the region began to do so. #