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Police ID Wrong-Way Driver Killed In Head-On Fairfax County Crash With Tesla
An 81-year-old man died after crashing his SUV while driving on the wrong side of the road in Fairfax County, according to police. Fairfax Station resident Sidney Brooks has been identified by investigators as the person who was killed after crashing his Chevy Trailblazer into a Tesla shortly after midnight on Thursday morning. Officers from the Fairfax County Police Department were called to the intersection of Fairfax County Parkway north of the intersection with Ox Road to investigate the two-vehicle crash. Police say that Brooks was traveling north on Fairfax County Parkway in the sout…
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Six Winning $50K 'Powerball Tickets Sold At Shops Across The DMV Region
The latest "Powerball" drawing proved to be fortuitous for lucky Lottery players in the DMV, as the jackpot for the game approaches record numbers. Three winning $50,000 tickets were sold in both Maryland and Virginia for the Wednesday, Oct. 4 "Powerball" drawing, though no players matched all six numbers, bringing the jackpot for Saturday's drawing to an estimated $1.4 billion, the third highest in history. On Wednesday, the winning numbers were: 09-35-54-63-64 with a 'Powerball" of 01. In Virginia, the winning tickets worth five-figure prizes were sold at: 7-Eleven on Leesb…
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Motorcyclist Who Died In Fairfax Station Crash Was On Stolen Bike, Police Say
Police have identified the 22-year-old motorcyclist killed in a crash involving a stolen bike Thursday, Aug. 31 in Fairfax County. Merle Webster Beach, of Springfield, was riding a stolen 2004 Suzuki on Henderson Road near thistledown Trail at a high rate of speed when he crested a small hill and lost control around 1:20 p.m. in Fairfax Station, police said. Beach was ejected from the bike and taken to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Anyone with information about this crash is asked to contact the FCPD's Crash Reconstruction Unit at 703-280-0543. Tips can also be submitted anon…
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Nuclear-Powered Sub Command Stays In Fairfax County Hands
Naval submarine USS Indiana (SSN 789) is in good hands. Northern Virginian hands, again. Navy Cmdr. Scott Bresnahan, a Fairfax Station native, turned command of the Virginia-class fast-attack submarine over to Cmdr. Kyle McVay, a Springfield native, this summer. The sub is a class of nuclear-powered fast attack submarines in service with the U.S. Navy, designed for a broad spectrum of open-ocean and littoral missions. This particular sub was the sixteenth Virginia-class submarine built when it was commissioned in September 2018, with a crew of more than 130 personnel. It's more than 377…
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Teen Was Driving Lexus 100+ MPH, Car Flew For 130 Feet In Fatal Fairfax County Crash: Police
Shocking new details of the investigation into a fatal crash that took the lives of two minors and left a teen hospitalized in critical condition weeks later have been released by the Fairfax County Police Department. Shortly before 9:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 10, dispatchers from the Fairfax County Police Department received an emergency crash notification in the 7400 block of Lee Chapel Road in Fairfax Station involving a vehicle that had gone off the roadway. Upon arrival, officers found a 2019 Lexus IS350 off of the road, investigators said. First responders were able to extract one teen…
Police & Fire
Motorcyclist Killed In Fairfax County Crash
A motorcyclist was killed in a Fairfax County crash Saturday, Aug. 13, authorities announced. The victim collided head-on with a vehicle at Henderson Road and Devereux Station Lane in Fairfax Station around 7 p.m. The victim was pronounced dead at the scene, police said.
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Abortion Ruling: Man Scales Bridge, Protestors Bang Drums At Justice's Fairfax County Home
Protests erupted across Washington, D.C., and northern Virginia following Friday's Supreme Court ruling to overturn Roe v. Wade, which ended 50 years of federal abortion protections. A man slept on the Frederick Douglass Bridge Friday night, June 24, after hoisting a flag that read "Don't tread on my uterus." Guido Reichstadter, of Florida climbed the D.C. bridge just after 11 a.m. shortly after the the court released its ruling. I stayed on the bridge last night. There's a hatch up here I can crawl down any time, but my batteries still have charge and there's more to do up here. I wra…
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Police ID Victim Killed In Virginia Crash Involving Speeding Car
Speed was to blame in a multi-car pileup that killed one man and injured three others in Woodbridge on Tuesday afternoon, May 17, authorities said. The driver of a 2006 GMC Savana was speeding when he slammed into a Ford van waiting at a red light at the intersection of Opitz Boulevard and Telegraph Road at around 1 p.m., Prince William County police said. The impact pushed the second vehicle into a Toyota van that was also waiting at the light. Mitchell Shaffer, 62, a passenger in the speeding car, died at the scene, police said. The driver, a 58-year-old Wood…
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