Source: washingtonpost.com - — 13th April 2009 at 20:18 (about 2725 days ago)
A 1979 Fairfax County slaying has been solved after a hair follicle found at the Oakton home where a man was fatally stabbed turned out to match a convicted burglar's DNA stored in the state's data bank, police said yesterday. #
Source: washingtonpost.com - — 13th April 2009 at 20:18 (about 2725 days ago)
A Fairfax County jury sentenced a woman who shot her husband to death to eight years in prison yesterday after convicting her last week of voluntary manslaughter. #
Source: washingtonpost.com - — 13th April 2009 at 20:18 (about 2725 days ago)
A 46-year-old Falls Church woman testified yesterday that she had just left her job at a Syms department store and was walking home one night last February when a man grabbed her from behind and forced her under a tree. #
Source: washingtonpost.com - — 13th April 2009 at 20:18 (about 2725 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 - — 13th April 2009 at 20:18 (about 2725 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 - — 13th April 2009 at 20:18 (about 2725 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 - — 13th April 2009 at 20:18 (about 2725 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 - — 13th April 2009 at 20:18 (about 2725 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 - — 13th April 2009 at 20:18 (about 2725 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 - — 13th April 2009 at 20:18 (about 2725 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. #