Pimmit Hills News

Senior Ikram Ali, 18,of Reston came from South Lakes High School a year ago, when she was a credit short from graduating on time.

At a time when American workers face dire job prospects and steady unemployment, Fairfax County's looming fiscal crisis for the 2011 budget has its sights on one of the county's few employment training-oriented alternative high schools in Falls Church's Pimmit Hills.

The Fairfax County Police Department, using DNA evidence, have made an arrest in a 22-year-old sexual assault cold case.

Fairfax County police say a DNA match has helped crack a 1987 sexual assault in northern Virginia.

Annual AAUW book sale brings cheap paperbacks, rare finds. By Mike DiCicco Tuesday, September 15, 2009 All of the 40,000 or so books available at the McLean American Association of University Womena s annual book sale last weekend were priced at bargain rates, even though one sold for $400. That was a second-edition copy of Charles Darwina s "The ...

A 14-year-old girl was awakened early Monday morning in her McLean apartment to find a man holding her arms down.

After a 24-hour standoff with police, a gunman hold up in a Pimmit Hills home shot himself Wednesday evening.

Police say they are now in communication with people inside a home where an alleged gunman is holed up.

Fairfax County police are surrounding a Falls Church house where they believe a man who allegedly shot and injured a woman is hiding.