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Popular Pennsylvania Band Director Dies Suddenly In Virginia
Rees Llewellyn, a Pennsylvania native and former school music instructor in communities across the state, died on Wednesday night, Nov. 8, according to a former colleague. Llewellyn, most recently of Fairfax, Virginia, was the former high school band director at Camp Hill High School and Springfield Township High School in Montgomery County, his social media profiles show. "It is with a heavy heart to break this news to you on Facebook — I thought you needed to know. Rees Llewellyn passed away yesterday," his former Camp Hill co-director Barbara Kauffman wrote in a gro…
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Air Quality Expected To Reach Danger Zones Along East Coast
Smoke from Canadian wildfires continue to travel south down the East Coast, and residents along the East Coast are starting to feel the impact. The Maryland Department of the Environment issued an alert on Tuesday, June 6, warning that "significant wildfire smoke" from fires in Canada will impact air quality throughout Maryland over the next several days (click here to check the air quality in your town). According to AirNow.gov, Wednesday, June 7 was expected to be in the red zone, the danger zone, in Baltimore, and parts of the Philadelphia suburbs. Smoke & haze from wildfires in…
Police & Fire
Dump Truck Owner Arrested For Crash That Killed Pregnant Mom: Montco DA
The owner of the dump truck that killed a pregnant Montgomery County mom is now facing criminal charges, authorities say. Kellie Adams of Lansdale, 31, and her Upper Providence firefighter husband Jason were expecting a child when she was struck head-on by a DWI dump truck driver in August 2022, prosecutors have said. Everett Clayton, the 56-year-old West Virginia man who police say was driving the dump truck, was arrested in Boston in November. Now, Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin Steele says the owner of the truck has been arrested as well. Patrick Doran, 24,…
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Charity Founder Killed By Virginia Airport Worker While He Slept Next To His Wife: Report
A Virginia airport worker was arrested on accusations he killed a beloved charity founder in his own bed while sleeping next to his wife, FOX 5 reports. Joshua Danehower, 33, of Arlington, has been charged with shooting Gret Glyer, 32, while he slept next to his wife in his Fairfax home around 3 a.m. Friday, June 24, FOX 5 says citing police. Danehower was arrested Tuesday, June 28 while heading to work at Dulles International Airport, officials said Wednesday. He and Glyer were acquaintances but it was unclear how they knew each other, police said at a press conference. Glyer was the fou…
Police & Fire
Virginia 'Throuple' Dead In Murder Suicide Pact, Police Say
"To everyone. To all my friends. I love you. I need to go." That was the cryptic note that 26-year-old Jose Gale Aliaga posted to Facebook before police say he killed two women and then turned the gun on himself in their shared Fairfax apartment earlier this week. Social media posts seem to imply that Aliaga, Angelica McIntosh, 26, and Anne Lollar, 31, were involved in a polyamorous relationship. The three had agreed to a suicide pact before police found their bodies with gunshot wounds in a locked bedroom of a shared Mazarin Place apartment in Fairfax on Tuesday, June 7, police said. In…
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Fairfax Veterinarian Details Atrocities In Ukraine After 2-Week Trip
Dr. Courtney Katsur couldn't stand to watch news of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The atrocities, the endless violence, and the evil all turned her stomach. But she wasn't about to do nothing. The Fairfax veterinarian took a short leave from her job at Town & Country Animal Hospital to fly to Ukraine and help the animals there. She spent two weeks in the country and returned earlier this month more eager than before to help the often-forgotten victims of war. "I knew that I have a skill/profession where I could help not only the animal victims of this war that…
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Navy SEAL Who Killed Virginia Couple In Ocean City With Wife 'For Fun' Denied Parole: Report
A former Navy SEAL who had help from his wife killing a Virginia couple while on vacation in Ocean City, Maryland won't be getting parole, WTOP reports. Benjamin Sifrit, 44, was denied parole in his first public hearing since being sentenced to 38 years for the 2002 slayings of Martha Crutchley, 51, and Joshua Ford, 32, the outlet said. A jury cleared Sifrit, who had a swastika tattooed on his chest, of killing Ford, but Erika, 44, was convicted of both murders and is serving a life sentence plus 20 years. The Sifrits — who lived in Altoona, PA — met the Fairfax, VA t…
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Virginia Gunman Kills Himself After Quadruple Sniper-Type DC Shooting, Police Say
A Fairfax, VA man suspected of shooting four people in Washington DC — including a 12-year-old girl — was found dead in an apartment Friday, April 22, authorities said. Raymond Spencer killed himself in a fifth-floor bathroom of a building on the 2900 block of Van Ness St., Fox5 reports citing police. Spencer is believed to have fired several shots "at anyone who was out there randomly" from the fifth floor of the building around 3:30 p.m., NBC reports citing Metropolitan Police Chief Robert Contee. He struck four victims, who were reportedly in stable condition. *PHOTOS* Multiple fir…