Back in your great-grandfather's day, streetcars cranked their way around Greater Washington with fairly predictable regularity. In the early 20th century, family weekends might include "riding the lines" out to amusement parks in Glen Echo, Bethesda or far Northeast, lines locals used daily to get to work, school or shopping.
A 58-year-old Falls Church woman on a bicycle was killed Monday afternoon when she was struck by a truck while crossing Columbia Pike.
Arlington County police have released surveillance video of the suspects in an armed robbery at a check cashing store on Columbia Pike last Wednesday.
The suspect from a Friday afternoon fatal armed robbery at an Arlington jewelry store remains at large and dangerous, police said.
Arlington County police released a video Tuesday that shows people walking past the body of a man who was struck and killed by a car earlier this month.
A morning commute complicated by darkened traffic lights added to the woes of hundreds of thousands of D.C., Maryland and Virginia residents suffering a third day of power outages from a devastating weekend storm.
An elderly walker on the Four Mile Run Bike Path was killed after she was struck by a passing cyclist, Arlington police said Tuesday.
Assuming the Occupy D.C. crowd hasn't packed it in yet, zombie fans don't have to go far to find unwashed hordes milling about. However, if you'd like to see those hordes do more than demonstrate the futility of consensus hand signals, you'll want to hit up one of the area's theaters for a Halloween movie screening.
