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WASHINGTON – Police drones flying over Virginia would be “great” and “the right thing to do” for the same reasons they are so effective in a battlefield environment, the state’s chief executive said Tuesday. Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, a retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel, says he is open to any technology that makes law enforcement more productive. The use of drones, which was recently endorsed by the police chiefs of Fairfax [...] Paul D. Shinkman, wtop.com WASHINGTON – Police drones flying over Virginia would be “great” and “the right thing to do” for the same reasons they are so effective in a battlefield environment, the state’s chief executive said Tuesday. Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, a retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel, says he is open to any technology that makes law enforcement more productive. The use of drones, which was recently endorsed by the police [...] Annie Gowen Four years ago, Veronica Witherspoon was stationed in Baghdad, enduring roiling sandstorms and nearly daily rocket fire as she worked as a Navy petty officer at Camp Victory. By January, she had left the military, lost her job as a civilian contractor, split with her husband and ended up virtually homeless, bunking with family members. Deeply ashamed of her predicament and desperate for a way out, she [...] NBC Washington Calling 911. It’s the moment of your greatest need. But instead of help, all you get is silence. Just after midnight on April 4, a Montgomery County woman called 911 because her husband was having trouble breathing and was starting to turn blue. Following protocol, a 911 call-taker answers and quickly transfers the woman to a dispatcher. He was supposed to send an ambulance. But in the 911 [...] WASHINGTON – Reports of a really bad odor blanketing the metro area have been reported from downtown D.C. to Fairfax County to Oxon Hill! You may have smelled it Thursday night or Friday morning – and lots of people are talking about it. We’ve been getting a lot of comments about it on Facebook this morning. Rondolyn Coleman said she “thought the smell was coming from those white trees that are blooming…stinky!” Read more: http://www.myfoxdc.com/dpp/news/local/bad-smell-blanketing-the-dc-metro-area-031612#ixzz1pNAbBdAA Hank Silverberg, wtop.com FALLS CHURCH, Va. – It seemed like a great idea — build a treehouse on his property for two growing boys. But for one local man, it’s turning into a big, expensive lesson in government red tape. Mark Grapin thought his two sons would love the treehouse. He called Fairfax County before starting to find out the rules for the Broyhill Park neighborhood in the Falls Church [...] AIRFAX, Va. — Resort-style swimming pools with fountains and heated spas, billiards rooms, granite counter tops, ceramic tile, indoor basketball courts, stainless steel appliances — many Fairfax County taxpayers cannot afford such luxuries. But they are paying for these amenities for use by low-income residents who live in subsidized housing in affluent neighborhoods. “They’re a part of our rental program where we subsidize the rents [...] Large swaths of the United States are showing decreasing or stagnating life expectancy even as the nation’s overall longevity trend has continued upwards, according to a county-by-county study of life expectancy over two decades. In one-quarter of the country, girls born today may live shorter lives than their mothers, and the country as a whole is falling behind other industrialized nations in the march toward longer [...] In DC, even the Spelling Bee draws protesters But spelling bee protesters? They’re out here, too. Four peaceful protesters, some dressed in full-length black and yellow bee costumes, represented the American Literacy Council and the London-based Spelling Society and stood outside the Grand Hyatt on Thursday, where the Scripps National Spelling Bee is being [...] |
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