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Monday, April 8, 2013

Top 20: Walgreens, 7-Eleven Not Welcome, Babysitter Indicted, Affordable Housing, DNA in Crimes and a Long, Happy Marriage

Top news of the week from our Patches around Virginia and DC.

Patch has 31 community sites in Virginia and D.C. Here are some of the top stories from around the region over the past week. 20. Affordable housing continues to be a major topic of discussion in Alexandria. The Virginia Department of Transportation sold Hunting Point, two eight-story apartment buildings, to a realty firm. Alexandria's City Council had asked that any purchaser not turn the buildings into luxury apartments that could displace its current tenants who require more affordable housing. That message was passed on to the new buyers, according to VDOT, but was not a condition of the sale. 19. On the west side of Alexandria, the City Planning Commission gave the go-ahead to major rezoning in the Beauregard area that will tear down …

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VDOT Sells Hunting Point to Chicago Firm (in Old Town Alexandria Patch), DNA Proving Helpful in Solving Cases in Virginia (in Falls Church Patch), Police Release Video of Potential Serial Groper Suspect (in Kingstowne-Rose Hill Patch), and 19 more ›

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James

4:44 pm on Tuesday, April 9, 2013

I remember that 7/11 on Crestview got robbed pretty recently.   more ›

Sunday, January 27, 2013

New Campaign Will Help Fairfax's Neediest Homeless

Plan would house 150 homeless over the next three years.

Fairfax County is joining a national initiative to provide housing to the area’s chronically homeless population. During a Tuesday meeting of the Board of Supervisors Human Services Committee, representatives from the county’s Office to Prevent and End Homelessness detailed the struggles of people who live on the streets and in the woods of Fairfax County. About 350 people in the county face chronic homelessness. That’s an increase of more than 100 people since 2010, said Dean Klein, director of the Office to Prevent and End Homelessness. These residents have been homeless for years, Klein said, and have had no success with other county programs. In many cases, the county’s chronically homeless suffer from serious mental and physical …

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