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One Murder, Three Cases
Two men plead guilty to the murder of a taxicab driver; another waits for competency hearing.
 FOR MONTHS, prosecutors have been piecing together a complicated narrative of the January murder of a taxicab driver near the Braddock Road Metro. According to evidence they were prepared to present in court this week, a 16-year-old secured a handgun used by an 18-year-old triggerman who fled the scene of the crime in a car driven by a 20-year old accomplice. But in the days leading up to the trial, two of the defendants took a last-minute plea agreement, and the third requested a competency hearing. Read more...
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Rocky Start to Council Term
Registrar rules on Hughes; prosecutor considers charges.
THE ASCENSION of Alicia Hughes to the Alexandria City Council has become a sort of Rorschach ink-blot test, with widely varying perspectives indicating as much about viewers as the subject. To some, Hughes is an interloper who breezed into town and displaced hard-working Democratic incumbents that have been part of the city’s political system for years. Read more...
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Logo Takes National Honor
Alexandria woman wins t-shirt design for Army Ten-Miler.
JULIE SOCHER entered the Army Ten-Miler T-Shirt Design Contest for three years with no expectation of winning. But that all changed now as Socher’s winning design will be featured on more than 30,000 t-shirts worn during the race. Read more...
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