The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with the firm named below, today announced a voluntary recall of the following consumer product. Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately unless otherwise instructed. It is illegal to resell or attempt to resell a recalled consumer product. Name of Product: Bicycles with 2010 EC90 Zero seat [...]
On October 21st, at 1222 hours Quint 25, Rescue 2, and BC 2 were dispatched to the Martin’s Grocery store at 3000 Stony Point Road for the female trapped under a vehicle. Q-25 arrived on scene and confirmed that an elderly female was trapped under a 4 door SUV. Units used cribbing to stabilize the [...]
By act of the 2010 General Assembly, Virginia is celebrating November 8 – 12 as Farm to School Week. The Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (VDACS) and the Virginia Department of Education are encouraging all schools in the Commonwealth, kindergarten through college, to purchase, serve and promote Virginia Grown foods in their cafeterias [...]
NORFOLK, Va. – A Norfolk federal jury has convicted Robert Glenn Ford, 56, of Virginia Beach, Va., of one count of conspiracy to commit extortion, one count of committing extortion, and one count of making false statements. Ford, a former homicide investigator with the Norfolk Police Department, faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in [...]
ALEXANDRIA, Va. – A federal jury today convicted Ajmal A. Aman, 29, of Herndon, Va., of setting fire to Bridges Billiards & Grill in Fairfax, Va. Neil H. MacBride, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, Edgar A. Domenech, Special Agent in Charge of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ (ATF) [...]
Many web shops have local SEO as part of their stable of services to provide small to medium sized businesses as an effective component for marketing. Google just decided they can handle it better. Universal search has rolled out as the default “web” SERP page for any query that has a geo-locater in it and [...]
Farooque Ahmed, 34, of Ashburn, Va., was arrested today for attempting to assist others whom he believed to be members of al-Qaeda in planning multiple bombings at Metrorail stations in the Washington, D.C., area. David Kris, Assistant Attorney General for National Security; Neil H. MacBride, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia; and John [...]
When you’re the youngest of eight children, survival is the key! That’s probably why I learned the value of food early in life. I simply love food and cooking and have found that in this world of abundant food messages, sometimes TMI isn’t a good thing. I am here to weed through all of the [...]
Police arrested an 18-year-old man working as a door-to-door meat salesman in the Mount Vernon area and charged him with burglary. Devyn Shea of 1909 Sierra Drive, Fredericksburg was arrested on Thursday, October 26 after he allegedly walked through an unlocked door, entered a home and took a woman’s purse. Police responded to a home [...]
Police are investigating two bank robberies that are linked to the same suspect. The first occurred in the Reston area on Thursday, October 21 at the Presidential Bank and the second was at the Capitol One Bank on Tuesday, October 26. Detectives are talking with Loudoun County regarding similarities to a bank robbery in their [...]