Alexandria News

ALEXANDRIA, Va. Fourteen individuals were charged today with allegedly paying or trading more than $8 million, nearly 40 firearms, and drugs to purchase 388,000 cartons totalling more than 77 million contraband cigarettes to sell in New York.

The Motley Fool - the lively and informative financial site, just a few miles from me in Alexandria, VA - says the iPhone won't kill the Kindle.

The Alexandria Boxing Club is having an amateur boxing card called the "Fall Brawl" on Saturday, November 14 at the Charles Houston Recreation Center, 901 Wythe Street in Alexandria, VA .

Alexandria Police are asking for the public's help in finding a missing woman who has early stages of Alzheimer's and mild dementia.

Fourteen people have been charged with illegally purchasing 77 million contraband cigarettes from undercover agents in Virginia over the last year and smuggling them to New York.

There is a very old three-story brick row house on a busy Alexandria street directly across from a car-rental business, adjacent to one of the city's ubiquitous lobbyists associations and a few blocks from a Starbucks.

Republican Bob McDonnell easily won the Virginia governor's race Tuesday as independent voters who last year delivered the state to President Barack Obama shifted to the GOP, handing the party a convincing sweep of statewide offices.

Timmons Group, a leader in enterprise asset management consulting services, reports that the City of Alexandria, Virginia, recently went a oelivea with a Timmons Group implemented Cityworks A Computerized Maintenance Management Solution .

Man and dog reunite for the first time in a decade. Gary Rowley greeted his Boxer-lab mix "Brindle" Sunday morning with a smile and a leash.

City voters will decide seven races on Tuesday. By Michael Lee Pope Thursday, October 29, 2009 Polls will be open Tuesday from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. The deadline for in-person absentee voting is Oct.

Book about unsolved murders just released. Author and former police reporter Cal Millar does some research for his book at the scene of a homicide in Alexandria, Virginia.

Another idiotic policy by fear-mongerers: requiring sex offenders to post "No Candy Here" signs.

There will be no Sugar Plum Fairy twirling or Mouse King leaping for Alexandria children this holiday season.

There are signs of an end to the IT job loss freefall, but two-thirds of IT workers have either seen their salaries go down or remain flat By Patrick Thibodeau Computerworld The apparent turn in the U.S. economy may have put the brakes on the IT job loss freefall, according to some new data.

"Salute to Excellence" - " Don't Let Good Service Go Unrecognized! Helicopter Association International's mission is to advance the helicopter as a safe, effective method of commerce.

A fifth man indicted with 55 members and associates of the Pagans Motorcycle Club is pleading guilty.

In the latest round of the I-95/I-395 high-occupancy toll lanes saga, Alexandria has decided to join its neighboring counties in officially opposing the project.

"...an improvement for Deeds in the critical Northern Virginia region, where he now holds a 56 to 43 percent lead in the left-leaning Washington suburbs.

Chicago Bridge & Iron Co. NV, an energy-infrastructure construction company, said Monday it has agreed to buy hydrogen-management technology from H2Gen Innovations Inc.

There won't be anything HOT happening on I-95 or I-395 if Alexandria 's residents have anything to say about it.